Toilet Weight Limit ????

[Andy]

They sold coffee that was iirc 20 degrees hotter than anyone else's coffee. They sold it from the drive-through window where they knew people would be riding while they drank.(although I now read that her grandson stopped the car so she could add cream and sugar.

Don't care for those shortened phrases like iirc. Is it that much trouble to spell it out ?

How did they know she would be riding while she drank ?

If she was, that is distracted driving.

Studies have shown that distracted drivers are more dangerous than drunk dr ivers.

Same as folks who use cell phones while driving, applying makeup, or eating .

Mc Donalds should have counter-sued her for a frivolous lawsuit.

But maybe they considered that many juries are lacking in "common sense." :

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I read where there was a malfunction and the heater overheated the coffee w hich Mc Dougals was not aware of at the time.

The car had no cupholders and she held it between her knees. The cap stuck to the cup and she sippled the whole cup. There had been something like 700 other burn complaints, and iirc they paid those people off modestly but did nothing to prevent it from happening again. The plaintiff got 3rd degree burns on the inside of her thighs. Because she had clothes on**, the clothes, sweatpants, kept the hot coffee in contact with her skin making it worse. **And was strapped into the car so she couldnt' quickly stand up and pull the cloth away from her, and perhaps in traffic where she felt she couldn't even stop until she pulled to the curb

So she put a hot cup of coffee between her legs.

Real bright. An excellent candidate for a Darwin Award.

Have a great night,

Andy

[micky]

Yes. One instance is not a problem, but it mounts up.

People who buy coffee at the drive-thru are often riding when they drink it. McDonald's own studies showed that they sometimes are. That was in the url.

No, riding is not driving, unless the person was driving. She was not driving.

So what?

You can't counter-sue for a frivolous lawsuit. Only after a respondent wins the first lawsuit can he then sue for a frivolous lawsuit, and McD lost. Any lawsuit for frivolity filed after that would have been dismissed immediately.

See above.

If they told the jury that, I guess the jury didn't believe them or didn't find it sufficient to get them off the hook.

Do you ever add cream or sugar to coffee you get in a drive-thru? How do you do it?

It shoudlnt' have been hot enough to give 3rd degree burns. I'm sure when something like this happens to you, you'll be suing too.

I will.

[thekmanrocks]

Andy wrote: "Don't care for those shortened phrases like iirc. Is it that much trouble to spell it out ? "

Amen to that! Welcome to the 21st century though. Like fist-bumping, that sh__ is becoming the norm. Makes following a plain conversation a chore!

[(PeteCresswell)]

5Per [e-mail]:

Long time ago I saw a documentary about a guy that weighed something like 750# - and had to be removed from his house by a crane through a hole in the roof.

I came away with the impression that, above a certain weight, these people need enablers: physically-able people who bring home the groceries and prepare the food that they eat so much of.

The subject in question consumed an astonishing amount of food... can't recall the details, but it was on the order of whole chickens for snacks.

[Jerry.Tan]

That sounds like the person I mentioned at 700+ lbs. I saw that article too, some years back. That's what I had thought was the limit for human weight....