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Idiot puts Gorilla Glue in her hair and now wants to sue the company

 
 
 
Yeah, coffee is hot but anyone selling molten lava in a cup deserves to get sued.
 
Gospel said:
Yeah, coffee is hot but anyone selling molten lava in a cup deserves to get sued.
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I love how this thread isn't even about Gorilla Glue Girl anymore, and Derec is nowhere to be found...

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IOW, the OP thinks the legal system should be reformed so that if anyone ever even contemplates suing a corporation over something that OP feels is stupid, that person should either go to jail or be fined for their thoughts.

As others have pointed out, the McDonald's suit was completely valid, as likely have been many suits that corporate propagandists have maligned as conservatives swallowed the misinformation with mindless dogmatic glee. Yes, there are frivolous lawsuits, and most of them are thrown out or lose. On rare occasion one will win, but far far more often, legitimate cases lose b/c the corporations have more money and lawyers. Besides, those frivolous plaintiffs are just doing what corporate CEOs do every day, lie, cheat, and steal in every way they can possibly get away with to profit themselves at the expense of others. In fact, that is why is it essential to justice to have a system that allows people to sue corporations, and thus will occassionally produce frivolous suits.

Most of the largest corporations have teams of lawyers and risk analysts whose job is the calculate what level of reckless potentially public harming behavior they can engage in to maximize profits. Sometimes harming and even killing some % of customers is the most profitable even when the possible lawsuits and payouts are factored in. Car companies regularly do this regarding recalls. If the cost of paying to fix all the already sold cars outweighs the likely cost of any lost lawsuits for accidents caused, they don't recall or notify the public of the danger. Ethics don't enter the equation other than the potential financial impact of the public viewing the company as unethical. CEOs are promoted by acting like amoral sociopaths, which is why research shows they are many times more likely than the general public to show clinical evidence of psychopathic (amoral and predatory) tendencies.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
laughing dog said:
As the OP indicated and JH showed, there is no lawsuit at this time. So, someone is contemplating a lawsuit. People contemplate all sorts of stupid ideas and policies.

If this lawyer did file a lawsuit on behalf of this woman, I think it would be a complete waste of time and something to comment on. Since that has yet to happen, there really isn't.

As an aside, the facts in the McDonald's coffee lawsuit are fascinating. It is a case study on how a defendant should not defend itself. Even the Wall Street Journal's reporting was damning against McDonald's.
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But didn't McDonald's and "tort reform" people actually win? The McDonald's lawsuit was effectively slimed.
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Corporate America went on a binge trying to convince the public it was a bad lawsuit, that some old broad spilled coffee and went crazy with a lawsuit.
But the case was good.
The case stands up to scrutiny as 'good law.' McD's lost ONE DAY'S profits from coffee sales to the victim. However many million that was.
And corporate was held responsible for a franchise blowing off the company's safety regulations.
And just about everything the woman won was spent on surgeries, skin grafts, etc.

There's nothing there to 'reform,' and all the ensliming was in the public view. Not the actual law.
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Exactly, it is how McDonalds and "tort reform" won the war even though they actually lost the battle.
 
Gospel said:
Yeah, coffee is hot but anyone selling molten lava in a cup deserves to get sued.
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There is hot and then there is scalding hot. Now, if McDonalds advertised it as "Scalding Hot Coffee", there would not have been any problem.

Customer: One coffee please.
Cashier: We only sell scalding hot coffee.
Customer: Isn't that dangerous?
Cashier: Well... yeah.
Customer: Okay, I'll take one.
 
Gorilla glue suit is dumb. Why would she think it was for anything other than gluing objects together, as advertised?
 
Terrell said:
Gorilla glue suit is dumb. Why would she think it was for anything other than gluing objects together, as advertised?
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Maybe she was using it to glue her weaves on? That's the only thing I can think of but still incredibly stupid. :)
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Gospel said:
Yeah, coffee is hot but anyone selling molten lava in a cup deserves to get sued.
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There is hot and then there is scalding hot. Now, if McDonalds advertised it as "Scalding Hot Coffee", there would not have been any problem.

Customer: One coffee please.
Cashier: We only sell scalding hot coffee.
Customer: Isn't that dangerous?
Cashier: Well... yeah.
Customer: Okay, I'll take one.
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I can't tell for sure which of you is being more snarky...

Tom
 
Derec said:
This case of the case where that old woman got many millions because she poured hot coffee in her lap. Except this will likely end up even worse because McD Stella at least could not
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Wrong. She didn't get millions and she suffered 3rd degree burns. They were in a parked car and she was NOT driving (she was a passenger). In addition, McDonalds intentionally kept their coffee ABOVE the required preset to SCALDING, so they didn't have to "keep making coffee when it cooled". So yeah, get your facts straight.
 
TomC said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Gospel said:
Yeah, coffee is hot but anyone selling molten lava in a cup deserves to get sued.
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There is hot and then there is scalding hot. Now, if McDonalds advertised it as "Scalding Hot Coffee", there would not have been any problem.

Customer: One coffee please.
Cashier: We only sell scalding hot coffee.
Customer: Isn't that dangerous?
Cashier: Well... yeah.
Customer: Okay, I'll take one.
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I can't tell for sure which of you is being more snarky...

Tom
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We crossed the line simultaneously so we should both be awarded a gold medal.
 
I'm going to sue myself for being stupid enough to click on another of Derec's race-bait threads.
 
Gospel said:
TomC said:
I can't tell for sure which of you is being more snarky...

Tom
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We crossed the line simultaneously so we should both be awarded a gold medal.
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How about this.

I'll put a couple of gallons of olive oil in a hot tub.

You, Jimmy, and [MENTION=228]Derec[/MENTION]; all jump in and wrestle nude for the top prizes!
First survivor, I mean winner, gets the Nobel. Second gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Third gets 15 minutes of fame.

How about that?
Tom
 
TomC said:
Gospel said:
TomC said:
I can't tell for sure which of you is being more snarky...

Tom
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We crossed the line simultaneously so we should both be awarded a gold medal.
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How about this.

I'll put a couple of gallons of olive oil in a hot tub.

You, Jimmy, and [MENTION=228]Derec[/MENTION]; all jump in and wrestle nude for the top prizes!
First survivor, I mean winner, gets the Nobel. Second gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Third gets 15 minutes of fame.

How about that?
Tom
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Ok, clearly I'm outmatched in snarky; you can have all the awards, sir.
 
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