Should Pepsi have given him the jet they promised him?
>>221234943A compromise would have been to give him one of their rusty old Soviet warships.
>>221234943It may shock you to learn the young man was a jew.
>>221234943>that rich old man who travels everywhere with him and bankrolls his lawsuitWas he his boytoy?
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>>221234959Pepsi having a bluewater navy but drawing the line at one Harrier is still hilarious. Like sorry bro, we can topple a Caribbean island but we can't honor the catalog.
>Leonard claimed that a federal judge was incapable of deciding on the matter, and that instead the decision had to be made by a jury consisting of, among others, members of the "Pepsi Generation" to whom the advertisement would allegedly constitute an offer.kek
>>221234943It's a strange situation because Pepsi obvious never expected anyone to try to claim the warplane. At the same time, there was nothing in the context of the ad to indicate that it was meant as a joke. Pepsi should have set the Pepsi Point amount to be high enough to cover their costs to obtain such an aircraft. My guess is someone in the ad department didn't even bother to check on the value and just assumed their extremely high Pepsi Point requirement was enough to keep anyone from trying for it. Not sure I really agree with the court that the guy who tried to redeem the points for the jet should have known it was meant as a joke. Nothing in the context it was presented indicates that. Also the fact that Pepsi wasn't shy about letting people know they used Soviet warships as part of their dealings with the Soviet Union could be considered a setting of context.Overall, I think the judge knew Pepsi fucked up and simply wanted to give them a way out.
Does it have to be a fighter jet? I think I'd prefer to have a little Honda jet
>>221235894They talked about that in documentary. 700,000,000 didn't fit on the screen so they shortened it to 7,000,000.Also"In justifying its conclusion that the commercial was "evidently done in jest" and that "The notion of traveling to school in a Harrier Jet is an exaggerated adolescent fantasy," the court made several observations regarding the nature and content of the commercial, including">"The callow youth featured in the commercial is a highly improbable pilot, one who could barely be trusted with the keys to his parents' car, much less the prized aircraft of the United States Marine Corps.">"The teenager's comment that flying a Harrier Jet to school 'sure beats the bus' evinces an improbably insouciant attitude toward the relative difficulty and danger of piloting a fighter plane in a residential area.">"No school would provide landing space for a student's fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet's use would cause."
>>221234943>well I'll never get a harrier but at least I'll get a Toyota
>>221236046I get that it was the NTSC era but find it hard to believe 700,000,000 couldn't fit on the screen. Did they mention to print ads that had the same point price?
>>221236046What’s a school able to do to defend against a fighter/attack vstol that wants to claim its own parking space?
>>221237166>The Pentagon stated that the Harrier Jet would not be sold to civilians without "demilitarization"Unless you want to kamikaze your jet it seems like it's an impasse
>>221236059I actually looked into this and the follow up. The girl actually took legal action and the people running the promotion caved in. They took her to a Toyota vehicle dealership and told her to pick whatever Toyota she wanted. All for her to drop the legal proceedings.
>>221234943>Should Pepsi have given him the jet they promised him?1. The Harrier was still being used by the military in the 1990s. So there are plenty of older civilian jets they could have given him. 2. As a show of good faith, they could have given him a cash reward instead. Pepsi spent more money on lawyers fighting this case than it would have cost to just pay him off.
>>221236046>no actual argument, just "erm.... you're a chud"african shithole tier court
>>221236046The Court's argument doesn't hold up because plenty of civilian jet fighters were available for sale at the time.
I don't know anything about this but what I DO know is if you want a jet you're an piece of shit.
>dude, you can win a jet>*note: you can't win a jetThat seems like a really retarded way to run a contest.Give the man his jet.
