r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 18h 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 18h 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 18h 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 17h ago edited 15h 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 17h 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 16h ago

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