On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:16:59 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 10/03/2016 14:43, trader_4 wrote:
On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 9:14:22 AM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:48:12 -0000, trader_4 wrote:

On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 6:38:12 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:20:17 -0500, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:

Some of the code is way above ,but guess the government is trying to prevent
people from doing stupid things. They are regulating how hot the coffee can
be in restraunts now. Seems that a while aback someone got some hot coffee
at a drive through and spilled it on their selves and got burnt and sued and
won about 5 or 6 million dollars for that.

They were awarded a huge amount (2.68 million, i believe), but
McDonalds appealed and the payment was significantly reduced, with the
woman eventually recieving $640,000.

And there were extenuating circumstances too. The plaintiff showed that
McDonalds knew for a long time that their coffee was far hotter than
coffee at similar places, dangerously hot, etc and did nothing about it.
It was so hot that it melted the nylon the woman was wearing, as I recall.

It can't be more than boiling point. Most people boil the water for their coffee. There is no excuse for the woman being so stupid.

The correct brewing temp for coffee is ~200F. That's brewing temp,
not serving temp. Serving temp varies from place to place, but
IDK any place here that serves it anywhere close to boiling,
~160 - 170F seems to be a typical serving temp. McDonalds
was *serving* it at around 200, as I recall. And how was the woman
stupid? She bought the coffee at a McDonald;s drive-thru. It
accidentally spilled. If she's stupid for buying coffee at their
drive-thru, then McD is stupid for selling it at their drive-thru.
And it was shown that McD knew that it was exceptionally hot, the
woman did not.

Doesn't Mc D use tightly fitted lids on their coffee in drive throughs?
I agree with Mr Macaw, that she was negligent.

Managing to spill it on her vagina showed she was doing something stupid with it. The only time I've ever spilt any liquid in my lap was when I've been drinking it and coughed, in which case I wouldn't have been drinking it when it was too hot. Why didn't she just leave it to cool somewhere? How hard can it be to have two brain cells? How do these people work out how to reproduce?

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We used to mock the Americans' litigiousness, political correctness, health & safety obsessions and the like.
Now Britain is full of lazy lard buckets who'll sue for everything they can get if they even stub their toe on something.
I need to find a new country to live in.