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Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:55:39 GMT
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
> Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:FoCFKn.FLt@lugnet.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > 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!
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> 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.
In fact, wasn't the award thrown out completely at some point?
> 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.
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 spill in 1973, when she was 11 months old. It was really
obvious and painful-looking at 23, so I can only imagine what it must have been
like when she was a baby--there were no skin grafts, all they could do was go to
the hospital and hope for the best.
You should have heard her go nuts over the verdict--feeling that she'd somehow
been denied her own justice, 22 years late. But then again, she was always
pretty mercenary, but that's another story of horrible evil things. Perhaps the
coffee was a warning from God? ;)
> 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.
Yeowch! That's hot, and it's worse when it's not just plain old water--coffee
has a way of "sticking", especially the Mickey D's sort.
> I don't drink coffee and Coca-Cola never killed anybody.
Well, sure, now that we can manufacture human insulin and put people on
dialysis. ;) I drink diet Pepsi and everything's fine but my stomach lining.
NutraSweet has no *twitch* side effects *twink* honest! *spin* What do people
find so attractive about coffee? Ew.
best
Lindsay
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| (...) Not that I've seen, though if anyone can provide evidence of either of these ($100k or thrown out) I'd love to see them. From what I've been able to dig up, the original award was for almost $2.9 *million*, $200k for compensatory damages plus (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| < cross posted to off.topic.debate > Mr L F Braun wrote: < snipped coffee issues > Hmm, well I worked at the Coffee Beanery for two years, when I ws 16 to 18 years old: (URL) business based in Flushing, Michigan, where I grew up. I still love it! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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