Yes, if you read the trial results, you will see that the jury did find her 20% at fault, but found McDonald’s 80% at fault. It doesn’t matter where she was, the point is that the coffee was hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns and wasn’t even consumable. If I buy cup of coffee, I expect it to be drinkable, this was not. Further, McDonald’s KNEW that their coffee was too hot, had received numerous complaints, yet did nothing. That’s what puts them 80% in the wrong - when they’re aware of a dangerous problem and they do nothing to fix it or mitigate the issue. They are negligent. Period, hard stop.
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So if you get 3rd degree burns on your pelvic area and you go to the hospital, they should just tell you to stop being fragile?
I’m very familiar with this case because of Randy Cassingham’s True Stella Awards (sadly discontinued). Here’s a few facts -
- She wasn’t driving the car, her nephew was.
- The car wasn’t moving, he pulled over and stopped so she could put in the cream & sugar.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY, the coffee that McDonald’s served was not consumable by a human because of the excessive temperature.
- She was hospitalized for 8 days with 3rd degree burns, followed by 2 years of medical treatment.
- She only sued for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses.
Those facts are not in dispute, but, instead of quietly paying her medical bills (which is all she wanted) and moving on, McDonald’s PR decided to publicly smear her and paint her as “DuH, sHe OrDeReD hOt CoFfEe ThEn BuRnEd HeRsElF. DuRr HuRr….”
She absolutely was the victim, but McDonald’s turned her pain into a punchline. All the way to the point that most average people today still believe that it was a frivolous lawsuit, when she deserved what she got and more because of her severe pain.
Also, if there were no victims in civil suits, there would be no civil suits. That’s the entire point, one party has been aggrieved, and they want compensation from the other party.
Okay, so now I feel GREAT about this team!! They never got discouraged and never gave up on either side of the ball! They ROSE UP!
Man, how the turn tables! 🤣 This team has shown grit and fight and hung in there, and now they're in position to win! Win or lose, I like how they've not given up!
I felt good about this team after last week's win, but I don't feel so good today. Our defense looks average, the offensive play calling has been poor, and Ridder seems to have regressed. I hope this isn't how the rest of the season will go.
Y'know, I was upset about the Bijan Robinson pick when we made it, but I'm a big enough man to admit when I was wrong. That guy is a BEAST!
I'm very disheartened with Ridder's play today. He's thrown 1 pick, and had at least 2 more that should have been. I was hoping that last week was first game jitters/rust, but he's not been any better this week.
I'm finally here! It took me forever to get home, and I've been watching the game on my phone.
Man, this has been a chippy game.
I’m not one to believe a bunch of tinfoil hat conspiracies, but I absolutely believe in the theory that Musk and Spez are being paid by dark/right-wing big money to run Xwitter and Reddit into the ground. Both platforms had large amounts of liberal free speech, but many left after Musk’s purchase and Spez’s shenanigans. I do believe that it’s a clandestine effort to reduce the public speech of Democrats and left-leaning individuals off of two of the largest platforms. Both are hemorrhaging cash, but, if they’re being paid more under the table, it would make perfect sense.
Sorry, I misunderstood your post. It seemed like you were saying she was weak and fragile for getting burned. I read it as she should have “rubbed some dirt on it and walked it off”.