Coffee isn’t supposed to be served hot enough to give third degree burns causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills. That’s actually illegal. When the health department gives several warnings and a senior corporate executive orders employees to disobey the law, that makes judges very, very grumpy. Lawsuits are a stupid system, but they literally the only system we have for legally fighting back against corporations. There is nothing else you can do if they wrong you. Spreading the idea that you shouldn’t sue is only taking away your only method of defending yourself within the law. You are being a corporate shill right now.
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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It wasn’t when some lady sued McDonald’s because she injured herself spilling coffee on herself.
It wasn’t when they started printed “warning coffee is hot” on the cups.
I realized humanity is fucked when personal injury lawyers made the argument that “actually that lady was right to sue” go viral. Some mix of internet contrarianism, distrust of “mainstream media”, and general dislike of anything “boomers” have said made people so incredibly gullible that they’ll agree with anything that will make them feel smart for being dumb enough to believe coffee isn’t supposed to be hot.
yozul@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ms. Liebeck, who was 79 years old at the time, suffered from second- and third-degree burns. These burns were severe, and covered her labia, buttocks, and inner thighs.
Ms. Liebeck was hospitalized for seven days and spent another three weeks recuperating at home.
gravierhouse.com/…/the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/
They deliberately served the coffee at a temperature far above safe levels, and knew it was dangerous. That’s what got them kicked in the ass in court.
This response doesn’t reflect well on you at all.
araneae@beehaw.org 1 day ago
https:// allaboutlawyer . com /macdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-burn-pictures/#the-publics-misunderstanding-and-media-sensationalism
I invite you to take a look at what the coffee actually did to her before you keep running your mouth. NSFL. If you would not like to look, I offer my services as a transcriber to describe it in depth for you. Whatever I can to make this awful lie McDonalds perpetuated to finally go away.