Dead flies in bottled water not worth 340,000: Canada court

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

OTTAWA (AFP) — A Canadian man who found a dead fly in his bottled water and claimed it ruined his sex life, hair salon business and even made it hard for him to shower lost his legal bid for redress on Thursday.

Waddah Mustapha of Windsor, Ontario had said in court documents that he and his wife saw a dead fly, and later half of another dead fly, in an unopened bottle of drinking water delivered to their home in November 2001.

The couple was cleaning the bottle's neck before opening it, and so did not drink any of its contents.

Even so, Mustapha claimed he suffered from "major depression, anxiety, specific phobias, and obsessional thoughts flowing from seeing the dead flies in the bottle water."

He fought for reparations from the suppliers Culligan...