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If this was another country, we'd have to tell you that this coffee may be hot. Good thing this is Canada! breama kevinfree chardi enight bogleech truthandglory assband tkirk whoa canada someone needs to turn down that sass level Two things to know about Canadal 1. We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot 2. We are sorry if you don't fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America) once this lady spilled her McDonald's coffee on herseif and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn't know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald's for $1 million That's what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald's in question had previously been cited- on at least two separate occasions-for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn't win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid, she won it because the McDonald's she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time (I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve full thickness" tissue damage, we're talking bone-deep with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?) Yeah I'm tired of people joking about either the stupid woman who didn't know coffee was hot or the "greedy woman making up b------- to get money She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. The label SAID it would be HOT STUPID obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why informative manner The woman injured in Liebeck V. McDonald's Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third- degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body's surface These injures that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts, during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight She was uninsured and sued McDonald's Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I'm not even going to dignify it with any further The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid, the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald's, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000 Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald's already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearnly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy thie coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation- happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It's an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a bum victim's suffering into a throwaway punchline jesus, i actually didn't know about any of this, thanks for clearing that up notes

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