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Re: Fan Thank You Letter
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:19:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > Just so people know where I am on this one, Stella did have a legitimate
> > case in my view. As others have stated, McD had been repeatedly warned that
> > they were serving coffee that was WAY WAY too hot, and did it for their
> > convenience. • **snip**
> > It's not supposed to be so hot that it weakens or melts the styrofoam. it's
> > not supposed to be so hot that you can get burned by the vapors. McD coffee
> > WAS too hot and they did have negligence.
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> Just for my info, can you clarify whether Stella was holding the cup
> between her thighs (driving a car, perhaps) at the time of the spill? It
> had been my impression that this was the case, and if so, then tough for
> Stella; McDonald's makes no claims about it's cups' thigh-proofness. If she
> was simply holding it and the cup ruptured, then that's a different matter.
The ATLA site (reachable from the link to the myth debunk site that James B.
provided) has a lot of info on this. She wasn't driving. That's a persistent
false myth. Further, it wasn't that the cup ruptured, it was that the coffee
is too hot. Dangerously so, and McD knew it, decided not to change it, and
had settled lots of cases before.
I don't usually have a lot of sympathy for trial lawyers but they're, in my
view, right about this one.
I see this one as similar to the Pinto gastank cases... a big company made a
business decision that they could take the heat(1) rather than change the
product. It was a bad decision. They deserved to be spanked. That's the way
it's supposed to work.
> > > Dave!!
> > Hey! You think you rate an extra bang than Dave! No way! There is only one
> > Dave!
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> 'Nuff said.
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> Dave!
There is only one Dave! And I am (not) his prophet!
1 - sorry! But it was an obvious pun.
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| (...) **snip** (...) Just for my info, can you clarify whether Stella was holding the cup between her thighs (driving a car, perhaps) at the time of the spill? It had been my impression that this was the case, and if so, then tough for Stella; (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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