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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:39 AM EDT |
Coffee case: similar case have been thrown out of UK court as baseless. Speaking
about that, seven similar cases have been thrown out of US courts until this one
passed.
Unfortunately, jury decided as it decided and pushed legal standards down.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 08:42 AM EDT |
When that woman sued McDonald's for getting scolded on he thighs
because she
held the coffee cup between them and the lid popped off (and won);
it was
totally McDonald's fault for making the coffee too hot. The real
fault
McDonald's had was NOT to put a warning on the cup "Do NOT hold this
cup
between your thighs as the lid may pop off" as then it was clear that
she
should not have done the act and it was all her own fault.
If
you dig into the details of the case, it wasn't all her own fault and this isn't
as dumb of a judgement as it might at first seem.
Sure, driving with it
between her thighs was a dumb thing to do. But McDonald's was also at fault due
to making the coffee with very hot water -- well above what was normally done --
as a cost savings. With hotter water, they could get more coffee out of the
same quantity of beans. And it was demonstrated in the court that they knew it
was a safety issue using the hotter water.
While a normal cup of coffee
would have been painful to the lap, theirs caused injury. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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