Thread: Switch hitters need not apply.

. . . and just as important, I prefer baseball players to be heterosexual. Oh, wait, neither point is important.

Originally Posted by Joe Chandler

Rob, you know I like you, but you cannot be serious. Yes, coffee is hot. The sky is blue, and water is wet, too. If it wasn't that hot, she'd have probably sued them for serving her a cup of lukewarm coffee. And if she's dumb enough to put hot coffee between her legs, why should McDonald's (and I'm not defending McDonald's, but the principle) be responsible for her medical costs? I mean, do you have to have a warning label to tell you not to put your hands on a hot stove? Is it the stove's fault or yours if you get burned? So I guess I don't see how McDonald's got what they "deserved". If anything, the woman got what "she" deserved for being somewhat retarded. And think about it...the coffee could only get somewhere ~ 212 degrees, which I think is the boiling point of water. And it doesn't retain a whole lot of residual heat, like say, cooking grease. 3rd degree, full-thickness burns? I've spilled boiling water fresh off the stove on myself before, and the worst I got was a couple blisters. She must've had the skin of an infant, and if she were that sensitive she shouldn't have been drinking coffee anyway. Point is, it was HER fault she got burned, and someone else had to pay for it. I could understand a bit of her point if the shape of a coffee cup was designed to be placed between one's legs, but common sense says it's HER fault.

I'll PM on this one as it's off topic really...



-Rob