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McD/Urban legends (was Re: non- shooting shooting cannons?)
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Wed, 4 Aug 1999 03:20:39 GMT
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Here's the full McD story, for anyone still interested:
http://www.caoc.org/mcdonald.html
Fight the hype. Find the truth before you repeat the rumors. Don't be like
them.
<grin>
Rick
jrclark@nospam.aol.com
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Mike Poindexter writes:
> Here is my 36 lira (about $0.02)...
>
> The lady who spilled coffee had to have skin grafts because the coffee was
> approximately 160 degrees. It gave her MASSIVE burns. When you feel how hot
> a hot tub is, just remember that they are 104 degrees, about 6 points higher
> than your body temp. This coffee was over 60 points higher. Also, a later
> court appeal by the McDonalds corp. reduced the multi-million award to
> $200,000. Both the award reduction and the actual damage caused by the hot
> coffee were mostly unreported, as the best way to sell papers is with amazing
> stories.
>
> Speaking of BLFHs, did you people hear about the lawsuit against GM? The link
> is below. They were ordered to pay $4.9 Billion because they didn't wat to
> pay for a recall on faulty gas tanks. They can torch my butt for a fraction
> of that money if they want!
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> http://go.msn.com/cml/10000.asp?
> target=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/counters/msn_story.asp%3Fu%
> 3D/msn/288352.asp
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> > > As far as I know, that's actually an urban legend. A very popular one
> > > though. But for a more recent and confirmed bad lawsuit story, how about
> > > the woman who won a huge amount of money because she spilled her coffee
> > > from McDonald's on herself and what do you know... it was hot. And she
> > > got burnt. And now she has a lot of money.
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> > > Do you remember the stupid female who won a great amount of money
> > > from a microwave oven manufacturer company after baking his own pet dog ,
> > > since they didn't mention in the user's manual that the microwave ovens are
> > > not for drying pets?
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