W. Bruce Cameron - Do Not Read This Column

Warning! Stop reading this column! Go back! Contains words!

OK, well, you can’t say I didn’t try to warn you.

I just read about a Miami man who has filed a lawsuit against a restaurant there for failing to warn him not to eat the tough, pointy leaves of an artichoke. The man, a medical doctor, had to be rushed to the emergency room, and is suing for, among other things, “loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life.”

Apparently he feels that the restaurant should have posted signs warning him not to eat inedible things, like, say, the parking lot. (I’m not kidding, can you imagine how much capac...