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Whatever the repercussions might be from the breast-baring incident involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during halftime at Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, a California man's filing a lawsuit claiming that the incident left him physically ill isn't one of them. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004] The putative plaintiff in this suit, Steve Bosell, is a creation of talk radio host Phil Hendrie. Hendrie's stock in trade is inventing outrageous guests with whom he converses on his show (the guests are actually voiced by Hendrie himself), and one of his recurring characters is Steven Bosell, owner of B & B Construction in Corona, California, who regularly appears on Hendrie's show to discuss his latest loony lawsuit. The fictional Mr. Bosell made our pages last year, when he was supposedly suing Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge for emotional distress after duct-taping his privates to protect them from a biological attack. (The satirical Steve Bosell articles often cite the Corona Times as a source, and the phone number given at the end of this piece is the call-in number for Hendrie's radio show.) As proof that good satire often anticipates reality, at least one real lawsuit was prompted by the Super Bowl incident, though — Terri Carlin of Knoxville, Tennesse, filed a proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking damages for emotional injuries caused by the exposure of Janet Jackson's breast. As the Associated Press reported: The suit was dropped less than a week later, however.
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