6 Famous Companies That Went Totally Insane When Criticized

Since PETA didn't want to be connected with a guy who was telling people to commit arson (hey, even PETA has standards), they looked into his social media background and figured out he was really Paul McComb, a SeaWorld employee since 2010. And they had leads that other aggressive "activists" may have been plants as well.

SeaWorld strenuously denied that they were using this guy for some sort of corporate espionage in order to make the people protesting them look bad and make themselves look better by comparison. However, it is weird that McComb was mysteriously the only SeaWorld protester who wasn't arrested during the 2014 Rose Bowl, almost like he had some connections.

But don't worry; SeaWorld has hired lawyers to look into the issue, because if they did ask McComb to infiltrate PETA it wasn't consistent with "the values of the SeaWorld organiz-" wait, what's that? SeaWorld totally owned up to their hidden army of saboteurs in February? Whale, shit.

Look, if you shop at Whole Foods, you probably know what you're getting into, because what you're getting into is a three-digit grocery bill for a single person's week of food.

But some stores took advantage of the fact that people were willing to shell out their "Whole Paycheck" for an organic "seeduction" bread loaf, and other pre-weighed food. It turned out that if you bought something Whole Foods claimed weighed, say, a pound, it might have weighed significantly less, and you could have been charged as much as $15 more than you should have been for your artisanal pre-poop.

After the scandal broke, sales plummeted. Sure, hipsters might be willing to pay $6 for asparagus water -- sorry, broth -- but don't you dare take them for fools or they will abandon you in droves. The CEO knew he needed to come up with a way to bring the cool kids back to his stores, so he promised to add something everyone needs when they are just popping out to grab a gallon of milk: tattoo parlors.

That's right: Tattoo artists will be wiping blood off people a few feet from the produce section. But it's not just bad life decisions you can pick up with your free-range eggs. They plan on having other kinds of vendors, from beauty products to record shops, turning Whole Foods into a kind of general store for painfully quirky millennials.

See, you've already forgotten about the whole overcharging thing!

But, according to the hotel, that would be their fault. You see, no bad reviews could be down to negative service or anything like that. No, sometimes guests "may not understand what we offer," and it is the paying party's responsibility to "explain it to them." If that isn't code for, "Make sure everyone knows why you are throwing your wedding in a flophouse," we don't know what is.

After news of the policy hit social media, the owners tried to claim it was a joke that should have been taken down years ago and was never enforced. But at least one Yelp reviewer said that the hotel had threatened him more than once about a negative review.

Look, we know the customer isn't always right. But that is the lie we've all agreed to live with, not some Mafia-style shakedown if someone didn't think their bed was firm enough.

So Volkswagen decided to put as much thought into fixing the problem as an emotionally distant rich grandfather would for your birthday present: They sent each car owner a $500 gift card. If that isn't enough, they are also offering free roadside assistance for three years, so maybe the affected parties could arrange to break down all at the same time as payback.