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de la puta madre!
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: San Francisco
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| quote: | Originally posted by Tygon
This reminds me... "Warning... Coffee may be HOT! Do not spill in LAP, fucktard..."
Seems that the possibility of "cashing in" distracts people from their God given instinct and sense of RESPONSIBILITY!
Call me an optimist... but I still have faith that humanity isn't as stupid as we're proving ourselves to be... |
I agree! People love to take advantage and get easy $. Sometimes I agree with the idea of removing all warning labels and letting the problem solve itself.
In reference to the hot coffee, Are you talking about the McDonalds lawsuit? I would have agreed with you about 72 hours ago but after learning the following about the incident I don't know .. :
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Here are a few important facts about the McDonalds case:
1. McDonalds coffee was held at temperatures at 180 degrees, 40-50 degrees higher than normal coffee, which is hot enough to produce a 3rd degree burn in as little as two seconds.
2. The plaintiff, a 79-year old woman, spent eight days in the hospital recieving skin grafts for 3rd degree burns covering 6% of her body.
3. There were 700 similar incidents, including some as serious as the plaintiff's.
4. She only asked for a $20,000 settlement; McDonalds refused.
5. The actual compensatory award was $200,000, the other $2.7 million (2 days of McD coffee sales) was punishment for McDonalds' "reckless, callous and willful" conduct. This was later reduced to only $480,000.
6. No one, NO ONE else in that town or the surrounding area sold coffee anywhere NEAR that hot.
7. If you spilt coffee on you from a restraunt or that you made yourself you would probably not even manage FIRST DEGREE burns These were THIRD degree burns, the kind your more used to seeing from actual fires and not boiling water.
8. The city AND state had filed health warnings with McDonalds due to the complaints, which McDonalds prompty ignored.
9. The lady inquestion only sued after McDonalds refused to cover her health expenses. (Which they HAD done in the previous two instances in this state.)
10. A company memo existed that flat out said that it would be cheaper and better marketing slogun to be able to say they had the "Hottest Coffee" and pay off any lawsuits that would happen from burn victims then to lower the tempurature and lose the possibility of lording it over their competitors.
11. And finally it was not the defendant who sued for millions, it was the jury who awarded it becuase it was "unspecified" and the jury specifically said almost 3million was picked because it was the sales for one days worth of coffee at McDonalds and the jury thought that they needed to prove the company memo wrong.
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