Man drinks bleach at restaurant, awarded more than $9M by jury
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
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William Cronnon was mistakenly given bleach at a restaurant and was later awarded $9 million in damages for his injuries. In The Daily Article for January 19, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison sees this story as a metaphor for those who have yet to accept Jesus as their Lord and then calls Christians to exercise compassion on the lost so that they might find the true “Living Water.”
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity isn't just marginalized in our culture today. It's not just viewed as irrelevant. |
| 0:09.0 | Our faith is now seen as dangerous in the eyes of many and as an aberration that must be |
| 0:14.8 | opposed and even eradicated. This stark reality is what caused Dr. Jim Denison to write what he believes is his |
| 0:24.2 | most pivotal book to date, The Coming Sonami. It releases on January 25th, but you can pre-order |
| 0:32.0 | your copy today at thecomingsunami.com. That's thecoming tsunami.com. Based on Dr. Denison's over 40 years |
| 0:43.6 | of cultural observation, study, and research, the coming tsunami sounds the alarm about the |
| 0:49.9 | impending tidal wave of threat and opposition that Christians will face for our faith. But it isn't |
| 0:57.4 | doom and gloom. No. The coming tsunami equips Christians like you to understand where we are, |
| 1:05.7 | how we got here, and most importantly, how we can respond redemptively. |
| 1:12.3 | So please, pre-order your copy of the coming tsunami today at thecomingsunami.com. |
| 1:19.4 | That's thecoming tsunami.com. |
| 1:23.4 | With God's help and by His grace, may we turn the tide of this tsunami before it overtakes us. |
| 1:38.9 | Welcome. This is the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 1:42.8 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:50.0 | William Cronin was eating lunch at a cracker barrel restaurant in April 2014. |
| 1:56.5 | His waitress accidentally refilled his glass with a mixture of water and eco-san, a commercial-grade bleach. |
| 2:06.6 | According to his attorney, Cronin went into the emergency room for treatment and developed gastrointestinal issues I won't describe here. |
| 2:17.4 | The attorney stated that Cronin's injuries were severe and persistent enough that he could no longer work. |
| 2:25.6 | The case went to trial where a jury awarded Cronin compensatory damages totaling $4.3 million |
| 2:33.0 | and punitive damages of $5 million. |
| 2:38.0 | I can find no evidence that the waitress intended to harm him or that he intended to be harmed. |
| 2:46.0 | She sincerely thought she was refilling his glass with water. |
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