We all knew this was coming

[vsp]

DUMBEST... LAWSUIT... <b>EVER</b>.

<a href="http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_2630274,00.html">Knoxville woman files suit over halftime show-induced 'injury'</a>

<i>A Knoxville woman filed a proposed class action lawsuit Wednesday against Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, MTV, CBS and Viacom, contending she and other viewers were injured by their lewd actions during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Terri Carlin filed her lawsuit "on behalf of all Americans who watched the halftime show" in federal court in Knoxville.
...
"As a direct and proximate result of the broadcast of the acts, (Carlin) and millions of others saw the acts and were caused to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury," the lawsuit filed by Knoxville attorney Wayne A. Ritchie II states.

It doesn't specify the type of serious injury.
...
Because the game is broadcast worldwide, Ritchie also wrote that the actions harmed the "standing and credibility" of Americans throughout the world.

Carlin's lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages worth billions. </i>

[Beestie]

John Edwards is reconsidering as we speak.

[Elspode]

Oh, please...

[Kitsune]

Ritchie also wrote that the actions harmed the "standing and credibility" of Americans throughout the world.

Somehow I think we're going to do more damage to our image by raising a lawsuit over something so silly.

[FileNotFound]

Welcome to the US where you can sue for spilling hot coffee over your groin and win...because...*gasp* it was hot!

[perth]

In all fairness, that coffee caused 3rd degree burns. Coffee doesn't need to be that hot.

[lumberjim]

and the lawyer she's hired is the guy from seinfeld that always helps Kramer, right?

Atrocious! Offensive! Uncalled for!

[Elspode]

Originally posted by perth
In all fairness, that coffee caused 3rd degree burns. Coffee doesn't need to be that hot.

Ever bite into a pizza that burned the roof of your mouth really badly? I have, many times. I should have sued the shit out of Pizza Hut, damn my shortsightedness. It didn't have to be that hot. They should bake them at lower temperatures so as to avoid endangering the public.

As I said in my rant in Sidhe's forum, I think it is rather implicit that hot stuff should be allowed to cool off before being consumed. I mean, if I overheat a burrito in the Quickee Mart's microwave, then stuff it in my mouth, aren't they liable for allowing the microwaves to run long enough to make it that hot?

Where's the common sense and personal responsibility? I blame all of this on the government finally having allowed lawyers to advertise...

[FileNotFound]

You're buying HOT coffee.

Not "luke warm" or "mildly hot" or "130F Coffee"

You're buying HOT coffee. It says so!

If my coffee was NOT hot, I'd not want it.

When I buy coffee I don't drink it for at least 5 minutes. Why? Because I'm not a retard.

If you are stupid enough to PUT the HOT coffee BETWEEN YOUR THIGHS IN A CAR (the thing that moves about a lot and where you have to use your legs to push pedals) you deservre to get burned there so badly that you never breed again.

[Happy Monkey]

While I have burned my mouth on hot pizza, I have never required surgery for it. This leads me to think that perhaps the coffee was hotter than the pizza.

[perth]

Originally posted by FileNotFound
If you are stupid enough to PUT the HOT coffee BETWEEN YOUR THIGHS IN A CAR (the thing that moves about a lot and where you have to use your legs to push pedals) you deservre to get burned there so badly that you never breed again.

You didn't read the article I linked. At least not fully. She wasn't driving.

Yeah, not smart to put it between your thighs under any circumstance (she was found to be atleast partially responsible for the injuries), but as Monkey just pointed out, it required surgery. This wasn't "Fuck, that pizza burned the roof of my mouth!", this was "That fucking coffee disfigured me!". Can you honestly tell me its a good idea to put something that hot in a flimsy styrofoam cup and trust the American public to never ever have something like this happen? It was bound to happen, regardless of circumstances. In fact, it did happen. Repeatedly. Read the article.

[ladysycamore]

Originally posted by vsp
DUMBEST... LAWSUIT... <b>EVER</b>.

{snip-a-roony}

*laughing...to...hard...can't...type.....*




Sorry...I was feeling a number of emotions on that one...

[FileNotFound]

There is an old saying.

You play with fire, you're going to get burned.

The same applies to hot coffee. Don't treat it with care, you'll get burned.

It's NOT McD responsibilty to make sure that you won't spill the hot coffee all over yourself. It's NOT their responsibility to make sure that if the retard is incompetent enough to spill coffee all over thier genitals they won't get burned.

Here is the only responsibility of McD: Give you actual, hot, fresh, coffee. Thats it. The rest is up to you.

[elSicomoro]

I suspect the lawsuit will be thrown out in the not-too-distant future.

[perth]

From the article I linked...

The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next
to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full
thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body,
including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin
areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she
underwent skin grafting. Liebeck, who also underwent debridement
treatments, sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds
refused.

During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700
claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992. Some claims
involved third-degree burns substantially similar to Liebecks. This
history documented McDonalds' knowledge about the extent and nature of
this hazard.

McDonalds also said during discovery that, based on a consultants
advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit to
maintain optimum taste. He admitted that he had not evaluated the
safety ramifications at this temperature. Other establishments sell
coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is
generally 135 to 140 degrees.

Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company
actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185
degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn
hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above,
and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured
into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn
the mouth and throat. The quality assurance manager admitted that burns
would occur, but testified that McDonalds had no intention of reducing
the "holding temperature" of its coffee.

McDonald's, after being made aware of the risk their coffee posed 700 times, willfully chose to keep their coffee at proven unsafe temperatures. You're excusing it because the coffee is served "hot". The coffee I make in the morning is hot too, but if i spill it on my crotch I'm not going to the fucking emergency room. I might need some aloe or a cold soak, but I'm not going to need a skin graft. That coffee is too. fucking. hot.