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Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:26:06 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Poindexter writes:
> 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.
That's interesting; I hadn't heard that previously.
> 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.
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 for trouble, since while McD's didn't warn
that the coffee was scaldingly hot, they also didn't make any claims about the
leg-proofness of their cup/lid combinations.
> 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.
Having previously worked in food service for a disappointing length of time,
I can report that many Health departments require certain food products to be
held between 140 and 160 degrees for purposes of sanitation. Perhaps coffee
is required to be held at a similar temperature? I'll have to check.
Dave!
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| Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:FoCFKn.FLt@lugnet.com... (...) spilling (...) would (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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