McDonaldâs Restaurants Plans Lawsuit Against Man Who Named His Son âBig Macâ
Â Carl Powell, 35, is facing a major lawsuit from popular fast food chainÂ McDonaldâs after naming his first-born son Big Mac Powell. Powell feels that the lawsuit is ridiculous, and that they should be paying him for the additionalÂ publicity that his sonâs name will give them.âItâs crazy man, Iâve never faced anything like this before,â said Powell. âI hate that a big company like that thinks they can just push around someone small like me.Â I mean their motto is âHave It Your Way,â isnât it? No, wait, thatâs not right is it? Thatâs Burger King. I eat a lot of fast food so sometimes I mix things up.âMcDonaldâs has yet to comment on the lawsuit, but a letter sent to the Powell household by the company expressed thatÂ either Powell change his sonâs name, or heâd be sued for millions.Ironically, Powellâs net worth is Â just over $4 million dollars, after he won a lawsuit against McDonaldâs in the 1990s. The lawsuit against the company occurred because Powell choked on a Big Mac while dining inside of a McDonaldâs restaurant, and the entire staff watched him choke,Â while doing nothing. He lost consciousness, and fell into a coma for weeks.âWhen I finally awoke in the hospital bed, a lawyer was standing over my bed asking if I wanted to become a millionaire. It was the happiest moment of my life â well, up until having my baby boy Big Mac. That the reason I named him that, to honor the day I became a millionaire, and because even though one almost killed me, Big Macs are delicious.âPowell has hired a lawyer to defend his right to name his child whatever he likes.âThis is America, damn it. Where a man can eat a Big Mac, name his son Big Mac, or have sex with a Big Mac, if he chooses. McDonaldâs may have given me these millions, but theyâre sure as hell going to fight to take them away.âÂ