Larry Jaques wrote:
On 15 Jan 2006 16:03:36 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "rigger"
quickly quoth:

Joseph Gwinn wrote:
There were a number of postings on the tort suit McDonalds lost because
their coffee was too hot, at 180 degrees F, scalding a woman who tried
to hold the cup between her legs in the car.

We just got a brand new Krups coffeemaker, and I got curious, and
measured the coffee temperature. It's 180 degrees F, just like the
coffee books recommend.

Think someone will sue Krups?

Joe Gwinn


I doubt anyone will sue.

However, will you, now knowing the coffee is hot enough to quickly
scald, serve your grandmother a fresh, full, covered styrofoam cup?
When she's used to cooler coffee? Especially when you know the top of
the cup sticks? As she's getting into a car? And not warn her?

Uh, yeah. We have all seen the HOT warning on every cup. I figure
she's been around enough to know that coffee is hot enough to burn
her. She's been brewing it for OVER 60 YEARS NOW, riggy. We've
-all- been burned by hot coffee before and we're cautious.


Only an asshole would do such a thing, right?

If so, the majority of us are assholes.


Is it different if it's not YOUR grandmother?

No. Why should it be? It's common sense.


Is this understandable by the average, prudent person?

Hey, if some scatterbrained old biddy came into the room and
clearly didn't have any sense of presense, we'd ALL have given
her extra care instructions. But that evidently didn't happen.
She ****ed up multiple times, first by trying that, second by
not reacting at all to the spill (like pulling the hot cloth
off her body parts. Sweatpants DO have a lot of room in them,
they DO come down quickly, and blowing on hot cloth cools it
very rapidly. She evidently did none of that. C'est la vie.

NEXT!


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Hey, if some scatterbrained old biddy came into the room and
clearly didn't have any sense of presense, we'd ALL have given
her extra care instructions. But that evidently didn't happen.
She ****ed up multiple times, first by trying that, second by
not reacting at all to the spill (like pulling the hot cloth
off her body parts. Sweatpants DO have a lot of room in them,
they DO come down quickly, and blowing on hot cloth cools it
very rapidly. She evidently did none of that. C'est la vie.

NEXT!

Ok Larry, how about an experiment? You wait until you get to your mid
70s and instruct someone to, unexpectedly, throw some scalding coffee
onto your lap. Then we see how well you do. Perhaps in the (usually)
very cramped back seat of the car?

No, just kidding.

How about this? Is this what you mean??? Death and distruction to
anyone too old, too infirm, not intelligent enough, or with
disabilities that slow them down. Let them burn. Who needs them if
they can't take care of themselfs. Let them stay home, out of our way.
Why make allowances on things like crossing time at intersections? If
they can't keep-up let them suffer. Take back all of the handicaped
parking. HORRAY for poor old McDonalds.

Is this what you had in your mind? Or perhaps something closer to
Soylant Green.

dennis
in nca