Apparently, a man ate the box and sued the company. Go figure.

 

I still don't understand why these kind of lawsuits are successful or even taken seriously at court. I get that it is due to some technical shit but still.

 

One theory I've heard is that sometimes you get judges/juries that don't like the big corporations all that much, will jump at an opportunity to screw over the big faceless corporation in favor of the "little guy."

 

Either that or the judges/juries are stupid.

 

When have these frivoulous lawsuits against corporations gone anywhere? And I'd like to see the source of the guy suing the company over eating the box as I doubt he actually succeeded.

On topic:

 

Wouldn't the case get thrown out before it even reached any sort of jury ? It's probably more a matter of the company just being careful is all.

 

As I understand it, 99.99% of the time, it doesn't work.

Also, on the few occasions where a "frivolous" lawsuit does work, it's usually because the media left out or changed a couple inconvenient facts in order to have a better story. Link.

Yeah, almost every time someone gets money off a genuinely frivolous lawsuit, it's because the company decides it's cheaper/less trouble to settle out of court than to actually take the case to trial.

 

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That is one retarded bitch... First, she order for hot coffee which would mean the coffee is hot. Second, she is stupid enough to place is between her legs. There are cup holder in the car design to people to put cups in. It is seriously shocking to find out that she actually won the law suit.

Anyway, :awesome:awesome

 

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Un-fucking-believable...

Scalding time in ratio to temperature

If you suggest coffee be served by all shop be 51°C and below, you are seriously delusional. I am more than willing to bet that stupid woman makes her own coffee and they are as hot as McDonald's.

There is no excuse for stupidity.

 

McDonalds served their coffee at 180-190°F, or 82.2-87.8°C.

That is a hell of a lot hotter than 51°C.

 

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Apparently you missed the last line. It takes 5 second to cause a 3rd degree burn for a 60°C. And coffee at 50°C? You want to add some ice while you are at it?

My point being if you order hot coffee, you jolly well don't do stupid like like placing the cup between your goddamn legs. Use some common sense!

 

What are you going to do in that 2-5 seconds? Take off your clothes in public?

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If someone runs into your car, I would think you might have a bigger problem that some hot coffee. If the waitress or server dumped it on you, go ahead and sue them. But if you are stupid enough to place the cup between your leg while driving, you deserve it. You have no right to sue the company based your stupidity. And for goodness sake, when we order hot coffee, we expect it to be, you know, hot?



Edit: I know about burns well, I'm Paramedic.

 

I think if I were being burned then I wouldn't think twice about throwing a few clothes off in public.