Legal battle launched in Vancouver over opposition to Moby Dick restaurant

[Lo-ki]

Duh....Political Correctness at it's best......

Gregory Peck must be just laughing in his garve...


VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A condo council on Vancouver’s waterfront is named in a civil lawsuit over allegations it refused to lease space to a fish and chip restaurant called Moby Dick partly because of an offensive word in its name.

Mengfa International Resources alleges in its notice of claim that the condo council overseeing the commercial property it owns defied its own legal advice while opposing the opening of a Moby Dick franchise.

The lawsuit says when Mengfa attempted to lease the site to the franchisee, the association responded with a list of objections, including claims that the name of the restaurant contains an offensive word.

The statement of claim says the company and franchise operator have worked with the condo council since mid-July but they were unable to satisfy sign or renovation requirements, despite legal advice to the council that its demands violated BC’s Strata Property Act.

Mengfa is asking the Supreme Court of British Columbia to either remove the current members of the condo council, appoint an administrator to handle the council’s work or allow the lease to Moby Dick to proceed.

None of the allegations have been proven in court and the condo council has not yet filed a statement of defence.

 

[*emmanuelle]

Why not name it after another character from the book? Call it "Starbuck" and see how much trouble they get into then!!

 

[clu]

I never got this "offensive word" excuse. Are we not allowed to talk of the career of Dick Van Dyke (look! two offensive words!) in polite company now? Seems like it's on seriously thin ice to me.

 

[Warl0ck]

I never got this "offensive word" excuse. Are we not allowed to talk of the career of Dick Van Dyke (look! two offensive words!) in polite company now? Seems like it's on seriously thin ice to me.

It's the result of an overly sensitive society that wants to sanitize everything. Of course one wants to create a civilized society where people treat each other with respect, but we're going overboard nowadays. I kind of shudder to imagine what type of society we'll have in 30 years when an entire generation grows up never having been exposed to anything upsetting. I've no scientific proof but I get the feeling very little of our society reads much anymore so they may not even understand the reference to Moby Dick & a whale.

 

[McDiver]

Add a 's to the first name or change the first name and last name around and see how much fun you can have with names. Here are some:
Moby's Dick
Kate's Bush
Steward's Rod
Elton's John

 

[westwoody]

Ignorant knuckledraggers who have never ead the fucking book...my God.

Sad statement about the level of literacy today.

 

[maniacalone]

Ignorant knuckledraggers who have never ead the fucking book...my God.

Sad statement about the level of literacy today.

After Trump inauguration, George Orwell 1984 became top selling book in America this week. There is hope for literacy.

 

[Larry Storch]

Lotsa 'Dicks' Here

 

[Caramel]

they have a point, nowadays on some websites the word "dick" is blacklisted, so maybe they don't want to be associated with that...and like I said before, grandmothers still call cats & kittens "pussy" because they are old and back then it wasn't considered a cringe worthy word, nowadays its an offensive word. What can we do, this is the time and world we live in now, kids these days find dirtyness in lots of words, its immature. Poor Moby Dick.

Even the name "Greg" is turning into a dirty word because of the internet!

 

[badbadboy]

Yet another reason to not live in a strata type environments.

I could not live with a bunch of PC fools who rule Strata like they own the whole building. Their reasons for not allowing this fish n chip shop are ludicrous. I hope they lose big time.