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Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:11:44 GMT
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.market.shopping, Doug Finney writes:
> > Are you serious? That's not as ridiculous as suing McDonald's for • spilling
> > coffee in your own lap but is still pretty out there, IMO.
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> The beauty of the coffee lawsuit is that you _know_ that same person • would
> have brought the coffee back if it was just a little too cold!
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> Dave!
I am tired of hearing about that coffee incident being a frivolous lawsuit.
The lady got $300,000 which was later reduced to $100,000 in appeals. That
was never reported.
Neither was it reported that the coffee wasn't just hot enough to burn - it
was so hot that they had to do a skin graft. How hot are they allowed to
sell coffee? 120 degrees? No problem. Is 190 degrees legal? If spilled
on a baby, it could kill. Would that not be considered negligence? Just
because somebody thought coffee was too hot doesn't mean that it is just a
person being picky.
My recollection is that the coffee was determined to be 150 degrees - which
is 30 degrees higher than allowed by law for a hot water heater to be set at
for any residence or hotel, for safety reasons.
Mike Poindexter
I don't drink coffee and Coca-Cola never killed anybody.
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) I am glad to hear that, as I thought the dumbass spilt it on herself, but it was still "frivolous" regardless of how much she got. She should have been jailed for wasting court time and required to pay all of McDonalds' legal fees. Timbo (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) That's interesting; I hadn't heard that previously. (...) What people generally regard as frivolous, I think, is the fact that she held the coffee between her legs--do I recall correctly? To many people's view this seems to be simply asking (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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| (...) There are a lot of things that, if spilled, could kill a baby. That doesn't make them morally wrong. They gave me a knife at the steakhouse and I managed not to chop off my foot. Does that mean the steakhouse got lucky? (...) I doubt that they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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| (...) In fact, wasn't the award thrown out completely at some point? (...) I almost married someone about five years ago who had a rather large scar on her left hip (yeah, yeah, stop it, peanut gallery), believe it or not, from a McDonald's coffee (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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| (...) lawsuit. (...) That (...) it (...) which (...) at (...) Only 150 degrees? That shouldn't be a serious burn -- anyone who frequents coffee shops (as I do) knows that the "normal" temperature for a latte is 160 degrees. I myself order them at (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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