--- title: Man Sues Burger King After Getting Trapped in Bathroom description: A man who got stuck in a Burger King bathroom is suing the fast food restaurant for allegedly backing out of its "free food for life" offer. canonical: https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-08T22:51:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:46.945Z og:title: Man Sues Burger King After Saying He Was Trapped in Bathroom og:description: The customer claims the restaurant backed out of its "free food for life" offer og:url: https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt710640df00ae84f7/698942e2db2987745126198b/burger-king-bathroom.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: burger-king-bathroom og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Sues Burger King After Saying He Was Trapped in Bathroom twitter:description: The customer claims the restaurant backed out of its "free food for life" offer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt710640df00ae84f7/698942e2db2987745126198b/burger-king-bathroom.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Sues for Free Burger King for Life After Saying He Got Trapped in the Bathroom  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 8, 2019 10:51 PM UTC  Burger King sign in Liverpool Burger King sign in Liverpoolilbusca/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 8, 2019 10:51 PM UTC An Oregon man who got stuck in a [Burger King](http://time.com/5437991/philadelphia-burger-king-philly-cheesesteak/) bathroom is suing the [fast food restaurant](http://time.com/5412796/fast-food-americans/) for allegedly backing out of its “free food for life” offer. According to Portland news station [KATU](https://katu.com/news/local/man-sues-burger-king-after-going-back-on-burger-for-life-deal), Curtis Brooner claims that he was trapped in the bathroom at a local Burger King for around an hour on Dec. 15 while employees laughed outside the door. A locksmith was eventually able to free him. “He went to the restroom, washed his hands and when he went to pull the door it wouldn’t open,” Brooner’s attorney, Michael Fuller, told KATU. “They gave him a fly swatter to ‘jimmy’ the door open, which actually cut his hand.” However, Brooner isn’t suing the restaurant for the bathroom incident alone. Fuller says that the Burger King manager offered his client “free food for life” to make things right before reneging on the deal just a few weeks later. Now, Brooner has filed a lawsuit for a little over $9,000, the approximate cost of a weekly $7.89 burger meal for the rest of his life. “We determined his life would last 72 years which is about 5 years less than average based on his frequent consumption of cheese burgers,” Fuller said. ““I think we will reach a fair settlement. My client was presented with an offer, he accepted it and a deal was a deal.” Burger King did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/"},"headline":"Man Sues for Free Burger King for Life After Saying He Got Trapped in the Bathroom","datePublished":"2019-01-08T22:51:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:46.945Z","description":"The customer claims the restaurant backed out of its \"free food for life\" offer","url":"https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","Fast Food","Burger King"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt710640df00ae84f7/698942e2db2987745126198b/burger-king-bathroom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt710640df00ae84f7/698942e2db2987745126198b/burger-king-bathroom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"burger-king-bathroom","caption":"Burger King sign in Liverpool","creditText":"ilbusca/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5497275/man-sues-burger-king/","name":"Man Sues for Free Burger King for Life After Saying He Got Trapped in the Bathroom"}}]}] ```