Putting a cup between your knees is not a really smart thing to do...that is exerting a lot of pressure from both sides...she probably squeezed it so much that it collapsed. I would also question the 3rd degree burns. That would require longer term exposure to the liquid at the high heat. Wouldn't it rapid cool after being spilled since the water was dispersed over a larger area? There was just too much in that that didn't ring true to me. McD's coffee was always a bit too hot, but to claim that as negligence because you put your cup between your legs to remove the lid...I thought that was completely ridiculous. This woman was injured because of her own stupidity.
-----Original Message----- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:35 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > > On 7/1/2010 9:33 AM, Sam wrote: > > Not another Stella defender. > > I guess someone needs to support the stupid :) > > I just support making ones judgments from the actually facts as > presented in the court case, not gleaned from late night talk show hosts. > > Start from there and make intelligent arguments if one wants. But start > off with "Cup was in her lap" it wasn't and "She was driving" she wasn't > and the car wasn't moving. And you are going to get crap for crap > arguments. > > You want to make the argument that hot coffee is hot, not matter how > hot. And you will suffer the consequences of it spilling on you, no > matter the circumstances, then fine. Just make sure you don't bring up > false hoods to try and justify that opinion. > > > http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm "There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds' scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. Here's the whole story. Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in the passenger seat of her grandson's car when she was severely burned by McDonalds' coffee in February 1992. Liebeck, 79 at the time, ordered coffee that was served in a styrofoam cup at the drivethrough window of a local McDonalds. After receiving the order, the grandson pulled his car forward and stopped momentarily so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. (Critics of civil justice, who have pounced on this case, often charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.) Liebeck placed the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the cup spilled into her lap." " the entire contents of the cup spilled into her lap" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
