On 3/9/2010 1:26 PM, Kevin wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:02:46 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

That ship sailed when the Stupid Old Bat successfully sued McDonalds for
spilling coffee in her lap.

McDonalds was serving their coffee at a much higher temperture than
the industry standard.

Bull****. There is in fact a published standard and it calls for coffee
being served at the temperature McDonalds uses.

The lawyers went around and found some crappy diners and the like that
served lukewarm coffee and claimed that that was some kind of "standard".

Some years later there was a lawsuit initiated against Bunn-O-Matic, the
company that makes the coffee makers used by McDonalds and just about
every other restaurant in the US and they trotted out the published
standard and that was the end of that suit.

While you'd expect to get a minor burn from
spilling hot coffee on yourself in this case it was a certainty that
she would receive severe burns and would not have if they followed the
standard.

And I'm sure that any liability lawyer would be more than happy to have
a gullible fool like you in his jury pool.