I used to joke about that case with my friends, and laughing at how stupid people can be..... but I never realized how serious it was though. Fake news doing the bidding of corporations again.
Nah. She was stupid. If I get drunk, and drive a car, and die, that's not General Motors' fault. So, the old lady put a cup of coffee between her legs, and was too dumb to take off the lid properly. That's her fault. She's a fully grown adult that can't open up a cup of coffee. It was not the norm for people to spill their coffee. She was the only doofus that injured herself like that. Maybe McDonald's was being ruthless, but they're not wrong. Are Americans so stupid that they can't take responsibility for spilling a cup of hot coffee?
And I don't always take the corporations' side, but it's obvious she fucked up. People point to the injuries, but so what? What does that change exactly? If you take something, and don't know how to use it, that's on you. If I juggle knives, and put my eye out, that's not the knife company's fault. I should've used my fucking brain.
Don't put hot coffee between your legs! She was an idiot. She was even stupid enough to lean the coffee cup towards her legs instead of the opposite way. If she literally just angled it so it would tip the other way, she wouldn't have got burned so bad. She was a fucking idiot.
People put hot coffee cups between their legs because they expect it to be below boiling temperature. And while it can still scald you it's not going to cause you long term pain, injure and disfigurement. McD's served superheated coffee meaning it was above boiling temperature. There's no reasonable way for a customer to know this or expect this without being privy to the methodology that McD's chose to use. Regardless of her carelessness with the coffee, McD's was at fault for the lack of warning which would have informed the customer that the coffee may be hotter than expectations and to use additional cautions when handling it.
Even still McD's served the coffee superheated. That on it's own is irresponsibility.
To use your analogy, you may drive a GM vehicle while drunk and be required to accept the responsibilities for doing so. That still doesn't indemnify GM from liability if the heated air coming from the heater is hot enough to give you 3rd degree burns if GM didn't warn you that normal operation may cause 3rd degree burns because the expectation is that the air from the heater will not be hot enough to injure you.
God you're fucking dense.
What if the car company like Ford had a defective tire that popped and caused a rollover? That coffee is the defective tire... check and mate.
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