Brazilian court rules TV is an essential good

A court in Brazil has awarded damages to a man on the basis that television is an essential good.

The man had taken Casas Bahia, Brazil’s largest appliance chain to court for moral damages after the company refused to replace his faulty television set.

Reuters reports that judge ruled that television was an “essential good” needed to watch soccer and a popular reality TV show. “In modern life, you cannot deny that a television set, present in almost all homes, is considered an essential good. Without it, how can the owner watch the beautiful women on ‘Big Brother,’ the national news broadcast or a football game,” the judge said.

Big Brother an essential good? epic fail.