--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "John F. Thomas, Jr., Esq."
<jfthomas3@c...> wrote:>
While the McDonald's case is often held up as a "poster child" for
frivolous litigation, it really had a basis in fact, and wasn't
frivolous at all. Basically put, to save money by allowing them to
use cheaper beans, and to shorten brewing time, McDonalds brewed
their coffee at a much, much higher temperature than coffee is
normally made. The 30 degrees or so of temperature difference from
normal coffee was enough to make the difference between someone just
getting scalded or a first degree burn, and someone getting second or
third-degree, full-thickness burns.
Many McDonalds serve "Seattles Best" coffee, which is not "cheap beans"
as anyone in Seattle knows ... much better than Charbucks. Also, last
time I checked ALL coffee is brewed at 212 degrees (the boiling point).
It can't get hotter than that or it turns to steam. Also, thousands
of people are scalded every year by hot coffee ... at home, in
restaurants, coffee houses, etc. If McDonalds was negligent it was
passing a hot cup of coffee to a very old lady in a car ... but that's
what she wanted and what she got! I suppose the money some lawyer
imagined he might earn from a billion dollar company had nothing to do
with it ... sure.
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To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: "brumar_lv" <brumar_lv@yahoo.com>
Date sent: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:46:14 -0000
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Stations Taking More Anti-advantage player measures?