Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny.

2010-07-01 Thread denstar
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > >  On 7/1/2010 12:35 PM, Sam wrote: >> the coffee spilled on to her sweat pants and rather than pull them down in >> front of her grandson >> she sat there > > And viola, so much a stronger argument based on facts of the case, not > hearsay and

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2010-07-01 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Hey be careful. You know how those on the extreme will react and also have loud temper tantrums when you actually show how their great myth is a lie. And this is one that is near and dear to the hearts of many on the extreme right. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > Accept, a

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 12:35 PM, Sam wrote: > the coffee spilled on to her sweat pants and rather than pull them down in > front of her grandson > she sat there And viola, so much a stronger argument based on facts of the case, not hearsay and comedian's jokes.

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 12:12 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > What do they use now... Isn't a heavy, coated paper cup the industry standard, not a cup made of small balls pressed together with heat. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology no

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
My point exactly. -Original Message- From: Sisk, Kris [mailto:ks...@gckschools.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:44 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind of funny. I make no guesses on that note. Could be either or both. Honestly

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
arred for being stupid. -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:webmas...@sstwebworks.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:37 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. @Eric.. they put directions on toothpicks. people can b

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
...and then remove the lid On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > I make no guesses on that note. Could be either or both. Honestly though > I don't think a heavier cup would help if you're dumb enough to put a > cup of hot coffee between your knees. > ~~~

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2010-07-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. Because of teh lawsuit or technology? On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > The Styrofoam they use now is denser than what

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
Because of teh lawsuit or technology? On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > The Styrofoam they use now is denser than what they used to use. > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/A

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2010-07-01 Thread Scott Stewart
or you might get burned"? > > -Original Message- > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:02 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind of funny. > > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1

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2010-07-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
The Styrofoam they use now is denser than what they used to use. -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:13 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind of funny. What do

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
She got burned because (she's an idiot) the coffee spilled on to her sweat pants and rather than pull them down in front of her grandson she sat there and stewed her beef curtains. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > http://www.esnider.net/2004/08/30/was-mcdonalds-coffee-too-

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
01, 2010 2:26 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind of funny. I remember this from the last time we discussed this. Too lazy to look it up so I'll use wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants#cite_ref-16 Though defe

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
10 2:10 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. On 7/1/2010 11:50 AM, Sam wrote: > Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list > of other national chains still do. > Funny how you don't read about simil

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
I see no sign that they changed their cup design since 1992 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > >  On 7/1/2010 11:50 AM, Sam wrote: >> Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list >> of other national chains still do. >> Funny how you don't read about

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
content may be hot means, this coffee is hot so don't spill it or you might get burned"? -Original Message- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:02 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind of funn

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
I remember this from the last time we discussed this. Too lazy to look it up so I'll use wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants#cite_ref-16 Though defenders of the Liebeck verdict argue that her coffee was unusually hotter than other coffee sold, other major vendor

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 11:50 AM, Sam wrote: > Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list > of other national chains still do. > Funny how you don't read about similar lawsuits. Also funny how they don't use Styrofoam anymore ~~~

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2010-07-01 Thread G Money
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Sam wrote: > > Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list > of other national chains still do. > Funny how you don't read about similar lawsuits. > ARe you sure about that? I find that highly doubtful. Since the McDonald's case, I don'

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
Most restaurants serve coffee at 190 degrees. Dunkin Donuts and a list of other national chains still do. Funny how you don't read about similar lawsuits. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > >  On 7/1/2010 11:00 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: >> Putting a cup between your knees is not

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 11:00 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > 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 t

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2010-07-01 Thread G Money
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > This woman was injured because of her own > stupidity. > This woman was permanently scarred because she was served a scalding liquida SCALDING...liquid. You understand what that means, right? Had she

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2010-07-01 Thread Justin Scott
> But I guess you just 'knew' all that didn't you. *pssst* ... he was using sarcasm. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
.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..

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 9:37 AM, G Money wrote: > Yes, but you missed the REAL reason the suit had merit: Actually, I intentionally did not speak to the merit of the case. Just the prevalence of people to form opinions based on "facts" that are not actually factual. ~~~

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 10:35 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm > 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." Oops, been too long since I've

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2010-07-01 Thread G Money
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > If your going to use that as your WTF case, you may want to get better > information then late night talk show hosts. > > 1) She wasn't driving. She was in the passenger seat. And the car > wasn't moving, it was parked in the lot. > > 2)

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2010-07-01 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ian Skinner 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 nig

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2010-07-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
I'd want to see a doctor's testimony on that. It takes a hell of a lot of heat to cause third degree burns. -Original Message- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:30 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appea

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2010-07-01 Thread G Money
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I don't ever remember seeing anything about her being a passenger. The > point was though that she was holding a hot cup of coffee between her > legs...no very smart. Regardless of the heat, McDonalds sh

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
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 argum

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 9:29 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > The point was though that she was holding a hot cup of coffee between her > legs...no very smart. Accept, according to court transcripts, she wasn't. She was holding it in one hand, while taking the lid off with the other, and the cup collapsed. Gr

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
pay for her own stupid actions. It's called hot coffee for a reason. > > -Original Message- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:20 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in courtkind

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2010-07-01 Thread Sam
Not another Stella defender. I guess someone needs to support the stupid :) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > > If your going to use that as your WTF case, you may want to get better > information then late night talk show hosts. > > 1) She wasn't driving.  She was in the

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
ee for a reason. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:20 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. On 7/1/2010 9:02 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM,

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2010-07-01 Thread Scott Stewart
or pop the filters off of a couple of cigarettes... kinda kills the midrange but at least your not deaf On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > and if you don't have ear plugs, a bit of toilet paper in ya ear > works WONDERS... kills all the treble, and you can actually > start to

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 9:02 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Sisk, Kris wrote: >> Ok...they went to a heavy metal concert and now they're complaining the >> music was too loud? *Grumble Grumble* Stupid sue happy society. > Shit, I just spilled McDonnalds coffee on my lap, while

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2010-07-01 Thread Ras Tafari
and if you don't have ear plugs, a bit of toilet paper in ya ear works WONDERS... kills all the treble, and you can actually start to hear the voices of the singers... staple for me since being soundman from 21-25 w0rd On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 1, 201

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2010-07-01 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > Ok...they went to a heavy metal concert and now they're complaining the > music was too loud? *Grumble Grumble* Stupid sue happy society. > > Shit, I just spilled McDonnalds coffee on my lap, while driving... Think I got burned... Seriously

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2010-07-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny. This blog post came across one of our legal blogs today. A couple who sued the heavy metal band Whitesnake claiming that one of them suffered hearing problems after seeing them at Boston's Orpheum Theatre will have to be content with a $40,000

Whitesnake (the band) loses appeal in court....kind of funny.

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
This blog post came across one of our legal blogs today. A couple who sued the heavy metal band Whitesnake claiming that one of them suffered hearing problems after seeing them at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre will have to be content with a $40,000 settlement, the Appeals Court has ruled http://b