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Boooo Hisssssss!!!! James! 2nd/3rd degree burns on an 80-year-old are serious business. On a diabetic they can be absolutely deadly.
The degree of the burn does not change the fact that the only one responsible for the old lady's burns is the old lady.
If you stab or accidentally cut yourself with a kitchen knife should you be able to sue the knife maker and win half a million dollars?
And if the coffee was at 140 degrees before 1994 she still would have filed a lawsuit because she was retarded enough to put a cup of hot liquid in between her legs.Nowwwww, McDonald's serves its coffee at 140 degrees.
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Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water
AND they'll put in cream/sugar for you. They never used to do that. Guess that $480K slap on the hand had an effect. And that's what lawsuits are supposed to do...
This only amounts to putting warning contains peanuts on a jar of peanut butter.Its to protect themselves from more frivolous lawsuits and nothing more.