As I recall, the Mc claim involved someone who placed the cup between her legs. Sounds like social Darwinism at work. For Starbucks, the answer is obvious, Ice Tea and Ice coffed, or sale only to customers with asbestos clothing. Oh, wait, asbestos is out, neoprene is in.
This isn’t necessarily as frivolous as you right wing wackos think. In the McDonalds case, McDonalds was double-heating their coffee – making it scalding hot, which was a way to get more flavor out of cheap coffee. MANY people over the years were scalded and McDonalds paid them to go away…they continued to double-heat, people continued to get burned and they made no changes to their procedure. They treated these payments/settlements as simply the cost of doing business. In this famous case, the court certainly didn’t believe the plaintiff’s pain was worth $25 million, but they punished McDonalds for doing nothing when they knowingly heated the water too much and continually scalded their customers. Maybe Starbucks is using the same model.
Just because I’m tired of my hardearned money being wasted doesn’t make me a wacko. Novel concept to work hard for money you earn, I know, but it’s what I was raised to believe by 2 very hardworking bluecollar liberal parents. At home, I have to wait for my coffee to cool down. When I go out and grab a cup, I expect that I will have to wait for the coffee to cool down. I would be very dissatisfied if I had to warm up my coffee before consuming. Our society has forgotten common sense and responsibility for oneself. Accidents happen. Sometimes you cause them, sometimes other people do. Rarely does an accident require a lawsuit and the majority of the time one bears some percentage of the responsibility. My guy tells me that this customer bears 99% of the responsibility, unless the coffee was spilled on him by an employee or other person.
Mike, way to jump to conclusions. And, way to show that you find your self in the left sided crowd that can’t recognize satire or sarcasm. Maybe the right wingers are right and people on the left are borne without a sense of humor gene. Once again, the evil corporations conspire to rid themselves of customers by injuring them and paying them to stay away. Only by alienating customers can corporation succeed in the mission to wreak havoc on the lives of the proletariat. No doubt a conspiracy akin to boiling frogs-no one will notice until its too late.
This is obviously a case of capitalism run amok. The f****n nerve of Starbucks to boil water in order to make hot tea. That damn George Bush let S-bucks get away with everything in the 2000s. An Enron in the making … whoops Enron was “in the making” under Bill “B*****b” Clinton.
Anyway, Goldman Sachs has worked with Starbucks in the past and we know what evil bastards they are. I think it is time for the DOJ to look into this “homegrown terrorism”.
You could have saved 10 cents and brought your own cup Dipstick Paydep.
I mean a second degree burn on the hand like the thumb or such…. feh.
However being a burn victim myself with first and second degree burns all over the front of my torso, I can tell you the words “mental anguish” surely apply.
There’s the risk of infection, the cream, the changing of the bandages, the fact you can NEVER get comfortable when sitting or lying down, the incredible unbelivable itching while the healing takes place, and then the scarring and or discoloration that you have to live with (which by the way itches sometimes as well) HOWEVER… a small second degree burn to the thumb or the side of your hand because you weren’t able to juggle your tea and check your facebook page on your iphone at the same time doesn’t qualify in my book as anything more than “go away you’re bothering me” money.
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I have THE SOLUTION!!!
From this day forward all tea, coffee and hot chocolate will be served at LUKEWARM temperatures!!
No longer shall we be victims of these vicious scalders that want to subject us to pain and burning for their own amusement!
As I recall, the Mc claim involved someone who placed the cup between her legs. Sounds like social Darwinism at work. For Starbucks, the answer is obvious, Ice Tea and Ice coffed, or sale only to customers with asbestos clothing. Oh, wait, asbestos is out, neoprene is in.
This isn’t necessarily as frivolous as you right wing wackos think. In the McDonalds case, McDonalds was double-heating their coffee – making it scalding hot, which was a way to get more flavor out of cheap coffee. MANY people over the years were scalded and McDonalds paid them to go away…they continued to double-heat, people continued to get burned and they made no changes to their procedure. They treated these payments/settlements as simply the cost of doing business. In this famous case, the court certainly didn’t believe the plaintiff’s pain was worth $25 million, but they punished McDonalds for doing nothing when they knowingly heated the water too much and continually scalded their customers. Maybe Starbucks is using the same model.
Just because I’m tired of my hardearned money being wasted doesn’t make me a wacko. Novel concept to work hard for money you earn, I know, but it’s what I was raised to believe by 2 very hardworking bluecollar liberal parents. At home, I have to wait for my coffee to cool down. When I go out and grab a cup, I expect that I will have to wait for the coffee to cool down. I would be very dissatisfied if I had to warm up my coffee before consuming. Our society has forgotten common sense and responsibility for oneself. Accidents happen. Sometimes you cause them, sometimes other people do. Rarely does an accident require a lawsuit and the majority of the time one bears some percentage of the responsibility. My guy tells me that this customer bears 99% of the responsibility, unless the coffee was spilled on him by an employee or other person.
Sorry, my gut tells me (I don’t have a guy on the inside or anything…)
Mike, way to jump to conclusions. And, way to show that you find your self in the left sided crowd that can’t recognize satire or sarcasm. Maybe the right wingers are right and people on the left are borne without a sense of humor gene. Once again, the evil corporations conspire to rid themselves of customers by injuring them and paying them to stay away. Only by alienating customers can corporation succeed in the mission to wreak havoc on the lives of the proletariat. No doubt a conspiracy akin to boiling frogs-no one will notice until its too late.
This is obviously a case of capitalism run amok. The f****n nerve of Starbucks to boil water in order to make hot tea. That damn George Bush let S-bucks get away with everything in the 2000s. An Enron in the making … whoops Enron was “in the making” under Bill “B*****b” Clinton.
Anyway, Goldman Sachs has worked with Starbucks in the past and we know what evil bastards they are. I think it is time for the DOJ to look into this “homegrown terrorism”.
You could have saved 10 cents and brought your own cup Dipstick Paydep.
1. Where did this brain donor burn themselves?
2. How did this brain donor burn their self?
3. How big were the burns?
I mean a second degree burn on the hand like the thumb or such…. feh.
However being a burn victim myself with first and second degree burns all over the front of my torso, I can tell you the words “mental anguish” surely apply.
There’s the risk of infection, the cream, the changing of the bandages, the fact you can NEVER get comfortable when sitting or lying down, the incredible unbelivable itching while the healing takes place, and then the scarring and or discoloration that you have to live with (which by the way itches sometimes as well) HOWEVER… a small second degree burn to the thumb or the side of your hand because you weren’t able to juggle your tea and check your facebook page on your iphone at the same time doesn’t qualify in my book as anything more than “go away you’re bothering me” money.
How come the details of the suit are always so vague? It would be nice to have a discussion based on more than .1% of the facts.
keeps us guessing