Suing over Texas Soup?

This is one of those stories that when I read it, my face gets redder and redder with rage.  This is what's wrong with the world.

According to the Star-Telegram, a man walks into a family restaurant  in North Texas expecting to order a bowl of soup because it's purportedly the special that day. Unfortunately,  as can happen in successful restaurants, the soup ran out. You'd think that would be the end of this, because a reasonable person would have moved on to another item on the menu.

Not this guy. See, he's a lawyer and he's threatening to sue this local, second generation family owned business because they dared run out of soup by the time he set his ass down in the restaurant.

It's amazing people actually wonder why lawyers get a bad rap. Especially sue-happy plaintiffs attorneys.

When I was growing up,  I would always hear from older folks phrases like "their oughta be a law" or "I'm going to sue for false advertising."  Nowadays, most sane individuals know not to go running to the government and the court system to fix every little problem.  Eventually folks started figuring this out.

It's because of customers like this, pitted against a family business just trying to make it. If anything there ought to be tort reform against frivolous lawsuits like this. Then restaurants and other local businesses who have done nothing wrong or with malicious intent would have to worry about some smarty-pants  coming after them just because he can.

Here's the real truth: the restaurant did not act in bad faith. No intentional act was inflicted on anyone. Malice was not present.  There was no negligence on the part of the business, and the customer was not damaged in the least. If I can figure that out and I am no attorney, I would hope a judge would see things in the same light and toss this case out. Then join the defendants at the restaurant for lunch.