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Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:26:36 GMT
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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.
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> 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.
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?
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> 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.
I doubt that they use tap water to make coffee. More than likely, they use a
coffee maker or percolator, which i'm sure uses much higher temperatures to
achieve perfect coffetude.
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> Mike Poindexter
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> I don't drink coffee and Coca-Cola never killed anybody.
I do and it's gooooood.
-Adam.
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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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