Texas jury goes full retard

vraiblonde

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Girl got a breakfast taco at Bill Miller (it's a TX BBQ chain), dropped it on her leg and got a burn from the sauce being hot. They gave her $2.8 MILLION for her "pain and suffering".

:rolleyes:

If you can become a millionaire because hot food burned you, the Totino's pizza people owe me about a billion dollars.

Most people would just go "Ouch! Sh*t!" and blow on the food to cool it off. But this chick sued because she's a ****ing idiot. And the even bigger idiot jury awarded her millions.

I get tired of these people. Lawyers who take these cases should be disbarred.
 

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Once at the wawa in LP I hot a cup of coffee. I know coffee is supposed to be hot so I had let it cool for several minutes before taking a test sip. It burned enough to immediately put a blister on my tongue and the roof of my mouth. Luckily, I didn't spill it when I took a sip because it probably would have left more than a red mark. I went back to the store and very politely told the manager what happened. He immediately went and checked the vat I had used. Sure enough, there was some type of malfunction and the coffee was at a low boil inside. I didn't yell, scream, or threaten to sue. I didn't need medical attention (which the manager asked) but it did hurt like hell. Manager thanked me profusely for bringing it to his attention and gave me a $50 gift card for my trouble. I wasn't expecting anything other than my coffee refunded and to prevent it from happening to someone else. Guess I should've sued for a million instead of accepting $50 for a blister 🤷‍♀️Damn!!
 

vraiblonde

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Once at the wawa in LP I hot a cup of coffee. I know coffee is supposed to be hot so I had let it cool for several minutes before taking a test sip. It burned enough to immediately put a blister on my tongue and the roof of my mouth. Luckily, I didn't spill it when I took a sip because it probably would have left more than a red mark. I went back to the store and very politely told the manager what happened. He immediately went and checked the vat I had used. Sure enough, there was some type of malfunction and the coffee was at a low boil inside. I didn't yell, scream, or threaten to sue. I didn't need medical attention (which the manager asked) but it did hurt like hell. Manager thanked me profusely for bringing it to his attention and gave me a $50 gift card for my trouble. I wasn't expecting anything other than my coffee refunded and to prevent it from happening to someone else. Guess I should've sued for a million instead of accepting $50 for a blister 🤷‍♀️Damn!!

See? This is what sane people do.
 

WingsOfGold

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Hot pizza is a 2 course dinner for me, the pizza and he skin from the roof of my mouth, I expect it. Maybe I can sue myself.
 
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OccamsRazor

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Most people would just go "Ouch! Sh*t!" and blow on the food to cool it off. But this chick sued because she's a ****ing idiot. And the even bigger idiot jury awarded her millions.
Is she? Is she really?? Seems like she has 2.8M examples to the contrary. Just sayin'
 

DaSDGuy

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Girl got a breakfast taco at Bill Miller (it's a TX BBQ chain), dropped it on her leg and got a burn from the sauce being hot. They gave her $2.8 MILLION for her "pain and suffering".

:rolleyes:

If you can become a millionaire because hot food burned you, the Totino's pizza people owe me about a billion dollars.

Most people would just go "Ouch! Sh*t!" and blow on the food to cool it off. But this chick sued because she's a ****ing idiot. And the even bigger idiot jury awarded her millions.

I get tired of these people. Lawyers who take these cases should be disbarred.
If I owned that store I would say "F" it and declare bankruptcy. Take whatever is left over, because I think my outstanding bills would be paid first. Either way she (and her lawyers) can stand in line and fight for the leftover scraps. I'll get a job flipping burgers and selling fries at McDonalds. I hear they are required to let me make a career working there.
 
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vraiblonde

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Is she? Is she really?? Seems like she has 2.8M examples to the contrary. Just sayin'

Nah, it'll get overturned on appeal. The best she and her bottom feeder lawyers can hope for is a settlement, throw her a couple bucks so she'll go away.
 
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SamSpade

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As I understand the McD's coffee situation -

They had frequently been warned that they served coffee just below boiling. As others have noted, obviously you can SIP your coffee carefully to see if it's ok to drink - but the spilling in the lap caused third degree burns and required eight days of hospitalization for skin grafts.


It was NOT a frivolous suit, although it has been used that way.
 

BOP

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Shades of the McDonald's hot coffee in the lap settlement.
I cannot believe in this day and age, 30 years later, people still don't know what that was really all about. The fact of the matter is, the 79 year old woman wanted her hospital bills covered for treatment of her 3rd degree burns. That's it.

Naturally, McDonald's, in its infinite corporate wisdom, said "no," and then, to make it all worse, proceeded to smear her everywhere they could. They did a good job at propagandizing this incident, because people STILL believe their side of the story.

And people wonder why corporations, companies, and even governments pay people off. It's cheaper in the long run. Especially if it comes to spending money changing processes, procedures, and making capital investments.

Burn incident​

Stella May Liebeck was born in Norwich, England, on December 14, 1912. She was 79 at the time of the burn incident. On February 27, 1992, Liebeck ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a McDonald's restaurant at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe, which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. She placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it.[10] In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[11] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin.[12][13]

Liebeck went into shock and was taken to an emergency room at a hospital. She suffered third-degree burns on six percent of her skin and lesser burns over sixteen percent.[14][13] She remained in the hospital for eight days while she underwent skin grafting. During this period, Liebeck lost 20 pounds (9.1 kg), nearly 20 percent of her body weight, reducing her to 83 pounds (38 kg). After the hospital stay, Liebeck needed care for three weeks, which was provided by her daughter.[15] Liebeck suffered permanent disfigurement after the incident and was partially disabled for two years.
 
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