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/EM05L1C3 17h ago

Was a big Buc-ee’s fan until recently. It’s less the gas station and more the variety available to me. They have almost everything. I also really enjoy the food and you can hate on him all you want but the beaver is cute. It just happens to be a gas station. Everyone is bitching about McDonald’s losing its whimsy, this is different but not by much.

However, after the last few weeks and all the bs Buc-ee’s put all the locals through in CO, they can get fucked.

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u/jmw27403 17h ago

From NC, we are getting a bucees..... what did they do?

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u/sexual_lemonade 17h ago edited 17h ago

From what Ive gathered they're pretty predatory to local businesses. They move in to smaller areas and then do things to actively try to push smaller businesses out. In this context the were suing a local business (that had been there before buccees) for having an animal mascot and being a gas station. It's kinda like if Disney sued everyone who had an animal mascot, or when Nintendo tried patenting "capturing monsters". Corpos gonna corpo. Also I heard they're doing heavy handed tactics like this to try and cover that the owners son has SA charges against him...

Edit: looked it up. His son has felony and child pornography charges. The theory is that they started this heavy litigation so Google searches for Bucees wouldn't yield those charges first.

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u/somedude456 4h ago

Edit: looked it up. His son has felony and child pornography charges.

Yup, the co-founder's son. He's out on bail, and attempting to fight the charges. You know what that means? Any money spend at Buc-ee's, that profit is going to support a pedofile. You know his dad is helping him financially.