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Re: Crap just hit the fan, but something's not rig
said by WhyADuck  :This is the nation where if you buy a cup of hot coffee, set it in your lap, spill it and burn yourself, instead of accepting personal responsibility for being an idiot you sue the fast food joint you got the coffee from. This forces them to stop serving really hot coffee. Too bad if anyone else wanted their coffee really hot, we have to protect all the idiots in this country from themselves even if it inconveniences everyone else. Obligatory clarification -- that's a perennial bad example -- the McDonald's case was notable for just how undrinkably hot the coffee was, how severely the customer was burned, and just how cavalier (and culpable) McDonald's was. (They'd had 700 claims over 10 years.)
»www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
»www.atlanet.org/pressroom/FACTS/···ase.aspx
McDonald's itself admitted they were serving coffee so incredibly hot it was not fit for human consumption.
McDonald's own quality assurance manager testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above and that McDonald's coffee was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
The quality assurance manager further testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that while burns would occur, McDonald's had no intention of reducing the "holding temperature" of its coffee.
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A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body. / End of Clarification
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