From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 21:01:44 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafal Smigrodzki [mailto:rms2g@virginia.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 8:18
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: No crying over spilled coffee
>
>
> Camp, Christopher provided these fascinating links, regarding
> the McDonald's
> coffee spill case:
>
> http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
> http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/myths/articles.cfm?ID=785
> http://www.cooter-ulen.com/tort_liability.htm#McDonald's%20Cof
> fee%20Case
> http://www.corleyganem.com/summation.htm
>
> ### I read the aforementioned articles with great interest,
> and I am still
> appalled by the jury's decision. Punishing a purveyor of food for
> endeavoring to maintain optimal flavor of coffee is bizarre. Careless
> behavior of some customers should not be a reason for all
> other patrons to
> be served a lukewarm beverage. By the same token, one might
> insist that
> carmakers should be punished for making cars going faster
> than, let's say,
> 35 mph, because there are some drivers who kill and maim by
> ineptly driving
> at, say, 50 mph.
>
> The basic standard applied in cases like these should be the personal
> responsibility of the well-informed customer. The only
> deficiency that I
> find in McDonald's actions is the absence of appropriate
> warnings on their
> cups, sufficient to enlighten even the most dimwitted
> consumer, something by
> no means worth an "undisclosed settlement".
>
> Rafal
>
My two cents: A boiling hot cup of coffee is a bad cup of coffee. While the
optimal temperature for brewing the coffee is around 92C, the coffee should
be cooler than this when served. If this person received serious burns from
a cup of coffee, it was a shocker.
Personally, I think McDonalds deserves some payback for making possibly the
worst coffee on the planet. And they do a bottomless cup, the bastards.
Emlyn
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