How One Woman Fined a Factory $1 Million Over 3 Sheets of Toilet Paper: Why the Paper Is Attached to the Roll with a Thin Strip of Glue

19.07.2024 20:41

Nowadays, toilet paper is attached to the roll with a thin strip of weak glue, but before 1956, the situation was different.

It was American Sarah Jessica Miller who changed it, having sued the toilet paper manufacturer for a million dollars, reports the Zen channel “Glass Fairy Tale”.

How an American Woman Sued a Toilet Paper Manufacturer for $1 Million

Previously, toilet paper manufacturers would glue the last two or three sheets of paper to the roll, and an enterprising American woman took advantage of this.

She sued the toilet paper manufacturer because she was not given the right to use the entire product she purchased.

A woman demanded a million dollars from a toilet paper manufacturer.

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At the trial, the defendant's lawyers tried to object, saying that one shouldn't forget to take a new roll.

But the court sided with the plaintiff and ruled that the defendant must pay her $1 million.

After this, toilet paper manufacturers began attaching it to the roll with a thin strip of glue.

Timur Khomichev Author: Timur Khomichev Internet resource editor