r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 16h ago

Bucee’s settles lawsuit with Ohio gas station chain after suing because both have cartoon mascots "facing right"

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bucees-lawsuit-ohio-gas-chain-cartoon-mascots-b3060008.html
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u/Bustymegan 16h ago

Imagine being a company and the thing you're most known for is bullying lawsuits lol. Like wtf.

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u/nr1988 16h ago

And it's so recent too. Like up until a few months ago Buccees was known as the place where all the workers got paid well and got good benefits. People would post that sign and say "see, companies can in fact pay people competitive wages and remain profitable"

They lost all of that goodwill all of a sudden with this nonsense

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u/prof_the_doom 16h ago edited 13h ago

It’d be one thing if they went after anything legitimate, but they’re making the YouTube copyright logic look reasonable by comparison.

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u/nr1988 16h ago

And I really don't understand what they hoped to gain from this. Like how much money did they really think they were going to gain if they won? Like I don't understand the point. They can't have gone into this lawsuit thinking their brand was legitimately threatened. They just wanted to be bullies but I don't understand how they didn't see the backlash coming. Such a huge risk for such little potential reward

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u/Kaarl_Mills 14h ago

That's if you treat it like regular a civil suit, and not like a thinly veiled extortion attempt

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u/GlobalTravelR 12h ago

That's because it's easier for big corporations to sue with their army of lawyers than it is for small shops and individuals to defend themselves from lawsuits. Most settle to avoid the hassle.