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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 5:32:52 PM
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And they should've had to pay way more given the misinformation campaign they ran against the accuser. It was seriously disgusting how willfully negligent they were.
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CM_Ponch
02/08/21 5:35:37 PM
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Her vagina was melted shut

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BeyondWalls
02/08/21 5:35:44 PM
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How were they neglectful? Was it boiling coffee?

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CanuckCowboy
02/08/21 5:36:30 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
How were they neglectful? Was it boiling coffee?

It was kept way way too hot so it would stay fresh a while longer. The pictures of her burns are brutal.

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FantasticAssGas
02/08/21 5:37:10 PM
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Thanks for reminded me that the coffee is hot.
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ThePieReborn
02/08/21 5:37:28 PM
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My torts professor went pretty in-depth on this case after we finished the part of the course covering the elements of negligence. Was a very interesting lecture.

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HypnospaceInlaw
02/08/21 5:38:12 PM
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FantasticAssGas posted...
Thanks for reminded me that the coffee is hot.


Another zero IQ post from your village idiot who calls himself 462
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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 5:39:24 PM
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CanuckCowboy posted...
It was kept way way too hot so it would stay fresh a while longer. The pictures of her burns are brutal.
Yup. It was way, way hotter than is considered safe, would've caused severe burns if ingested, and they'd been made well aware of the problem. Mcdonalds' response was to run a misinformation campaign slandering the woman who was only looking for money for medical care, and falsely claim frivolous lawsuits are on the rise.
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voldothegr8
02/08/21 5:39:38 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
How were they neglectful? Was it boiling coffee?

Pretty close actually, like 20 degrees less than boiling point
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Paragon21XX
02/08/21 5:40:08 PM
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Should have just made it a selling point instead of digging their grave ever deeper by using paid shills to drag the woman's name through the mud: "We serve our coffee hot enough to melt your flesh off, literally," "blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself...that is McDonald's coffee."
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CanuckCowboy
02/08/21 5:40:39 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Pretty close actually, like 20 degrees less

Iirc it was kept at nearly 90 degrees Celsius. Almost 33% hotter than anyone else keeps coffee according to her lawyer

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DeadBankerDream
02/08/21 5:42:10 PM
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Paragon21XX posted...
"blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself...that is McDonald's coffee."

*Smooth jazz in the background*
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FantasticAssGas
02/08/21 5:43:22 PM
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PrideOfLion posted...
Yeah, it's a damn shame how many people fell for the disinformation put out by McDonalds

What exactly was the disinformation?
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Will_VIIII
02/08/21 5:44:40 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
Her vagina was melted shut
Did that actually happen?

I recall 3rd degree burns which you shouldn't not get from spilling hot coffee onto yourself.

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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 5:45:48 PM
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FantasticAssGas posted...
What exactly was the disinformation?
Basically, McDonald's put out that she was driving recklessly and burned herself, when she was in the passenger seat, parked, and the lid slipped off with horrific results. They also put out a media campaign about the rise of frivolous lawsuits to protect their public image.
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Paragon21XX
02/08/21 5:46:15 PM
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FantasticAssGas posted...
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What exactly was the disinformation?

By making people believe that her injuries were limited to only 1st, maybe 2nd degree burns, not 3rd degree burns that required a lot of reconstructive surgery.
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Will_VIIII
02/08/21 5:46:55 PM
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That particular mcdonald's had also been previously warned during an inspection IIRC, that the coffee was way too hot and they needed to fix that.

They didn't.

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CM_Ponch
02/08/21 5:47:00 PM
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Will_VIIII posted...
Did that actually happen?

I recall 3rd degree burns which you shouldn't not get from spilling hot coffee onto yourself.
Her labia fused from the burns

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Smashingpmkns
02/08/21 5:47:33 PM
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Yeah it was pretty fucked up. Doesn't help that every news report and late night comedian ridiculed the woman.
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nfearurspecimn
02/08/21 5:48:44 PM
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good reminder, thank you

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FantasticAssGas
02/08/21 5:49:50 PM
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Have you guys stopped supporting McDonald's since?
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E32005
02/08/21 5:50:43 PM
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its weird how this case is brought up monthly on CE

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voldothegr8
02/08/21 5:53:18 PM
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FantasticAssGas posted...


What exactly was the disinformation?

They campaigned it wasn't their fault someone spilled coffee on themselves, leaving out the fact it was way to hot to be served
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_Rinku_
02/08/21 5:55:03 PM
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Semi-related: a dingo (probably) did actually eat that woman's baby. The Australian government has never made any meaningful restitution to the couple whose lives they ruined.
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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 5:55:37 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
Semi-related: a dingo (probably) did actually eat that woman's baby. The Australian government has never made any meaningful restitution to the couple whose lives they ruined.
How were they responsible?
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DeadBankerDream
02/08/21 5:56:30 PM
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RadiantJoyrock posted...

How were they responsible?

The government? By jailing the mother of the child for several years?
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Choco
02/08/21 5:56:54 PM
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E32005 posted...
this case is brought up monthly on CE
doubt

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_Rinku_
02/08/21 5:57:09 PM
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RadiantJoyrock posted...
How were they responsible?
The government falsely imprisoned them...? Ran their names through the mud? Made these poor parents constantly relive the tragic and brutal death of their baby while blaming them for it? Take your pick.
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FantasticAssGas
02/08/21 5:57:16 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
They campaigned it wasn't their fault someone spilled coffee on themselves, leaving out the fact it was way to hot to be served

What is too hot to be served? I make either coffee or tea every morning, the latter I don't pour the water until its at a boil. I take sips as I drive.
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E32005
02/08/21 5:57:50 PM
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Choco posted...
doubt
there was a topic a month ago

might of been another user

but its weird

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Jagr_68
02/08/21 5:58:32 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
Her labia fused from the burns



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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 5:58:33 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
The government falsely imprisoned them...? Ran their names through the mud? Made these poor parents constantly relive the tragic and brutal death of their baby while blaming them for it? Take your pick.
It was a legitimate question, I know nothing at all about that. That's awful :(
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DeadBankerDream
02/08/21 5:58:55 PM
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FantasticAssGas posted...


What is too hot to be served? I make either coffee or tea every morning, the latter I don't pour the water until its at a boil. I take sips as I drive.

Your username is FantasticAssGas and you have a MyLittlePony avatar.
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Simon_Gruber
02/08/21 6:00:41 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Yeah it was pretty fucked up. Doesn't help that every news report and late night comedian ridiculed the woman.

Exactly, fuck Jay Leno
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FantasticAssGas
02/08/21 6:04:08 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Your username is FantasticAssGas and you have a MyLittlePony avatar.

The fact that you know its from MLP says a lot.
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_Rinku_
02/08/21 6:04:23 PM
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RadiantJoyrock posted...
It was a legitimate question, I know nothing at all about that. That's awful :(
Oh, my bad. (Not asking this judgmentally) are you under the age of 20? I'm in my late 20s and the whole "dingo ate my baby" thing was still a punchline when I was a very young kid, but I assumed it's phased out of the popular consciousness at this point.

The tl;dr is that a two month old baby was (likely) dragged away by a dingo while her parents were camping, the parents were dragged through the mud by the Australian courts and media, the mother was falsely imprisoned for three years, and the government paid her 1.3million dollars on release (which, iirc didn't even begin to cover legal fees, emotional duress, or damage to her future employment). It's still a punchline in some circles and a lot of people think that she killed her baby/mock her for her claim that a dingo (which is like a wild Australian dog) killed her child.
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Robot2600
02/08/21 6:06:06 PM
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A small but important distinction:

It wasn't to keep the coffee "fresh" either, it's just when coffee is that hot you can't taste how bad it is. Essentially it was so hot because the heat disguised the flavor.
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Kastrada
02/08/21 6:06:45 PM
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Too lazy to look it up but didn't she as McDonald's to help cover HALF of her medical costs, which was like 20 grand?
They responded with a couple hundred bucks.
Then she took them to court and the jury awarded her a large amount but the judge was like "Nah, fuck that" and doubled it?

Something like that right?

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CanuckCowboy
02/08/21 6:07:04 PM
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I didnt know anything about that either.

A dingo ate my baby is pretty well known as a joke or whatever but I never knew of its origins or that it was something that really happened.

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_Rinku_
02/08/21 6:07:46 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
A small but important distinction:

It wasn't to keep the coffee "fresh" either, it's just when coffee is that hot you can't taste how bad it is. Essentially it was so hot because the heat disguised the flavor.
This is (supposedly) what Starbucks does to keep a consistent flavor with its coffee. It certainly has a "burned" taste to me, but they also brew it every 30 minutes which should keep it fresh.
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CanuckCowboy
02/08/21 6:08:00 PM
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Kastrada posted...
Too lazy to look it up but didn't she as McDonald's to help cover HALF of her medical costs, which was like 20 grand?
They responded with a couple hundred bucks.
Then she took them to court and the jury awarded her a large amount but the judge was like "Nah, fuck that" and doubled it?

Something like that right?

Sorta. Iirc the jury gave her like two and a half million but the judge ended up giving her 600k or so... so he gave less but a lot more than Macdonald thought they owed.

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COVxy
02/08/21 6:08:54 PM
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Don't go to any restaurant that fresh brews coffee for you, it's dangerously hot!

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Unsugarized_Foo
02/08/21 6:10:36 PM
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She was even fair. Just pay the medical bills.

McDonald's said, 'fuck you you old vagina fused bitch. The cup says it's hot coffee dumb bitch, like wtf. You want how much because you're so fucking stupid? Let me tell the world how fucking stupid your dumb ass is and fuck you.'

And if they had just sent that instead of what they actually did, it would have been a better time for the poor old lady who literally just wanted coffee.

Now you think that'd bad, now imagine McDonds attitude toward it's employees wanting a raise.

I stopped eating their until their current CEO took over

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Seaman_Prime
02/08/21 6:11:42 PM
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Yup selling coffee hot enough to melt your skin is a crime. All the lady asked for was payment for the medical bills but McDonalds corporate would rather make assholes of themselves and get sued for much more lol.
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_Rinku_
02/08/21 6:20:48 PM
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Okay, another one: Disney is way more responsible for that child being killed by an alligator at Disney World a few years ago than people want to admit. Most people want to dogpile on the parents for... not watching their kids on the beach at a Disney World resort? Where the park had erected no real barriers to keep out gators IN FLORIDA!?

Also, the father jumped in the water and wrestled with the gator to try to free his son, so it's not as if he was completely absent. He reacted quickly. There's only so much you can do when you're trying to 1v1 what is effectively an amphibious dinosaur on his turf.
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RadiantJoyrock
02/08/21 6:21:28 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
Oh, my bad. (Not asking this judgmentally) are you under the age of 20? I'm in my late 20s and the whole "dingo ate my baby" thing was still a punchline when I was a very young kid, but I assumed it's phased out of the popular consciousness at this point.

The tl;dr is that a two month old baby was (likely) dragged away by a dingo while her parents were camping, the parents were dragged through the mud by the Australian courts and media, the mother was falsely imprisoned for three years, and the government paid her 1.3million dollars on release (which, iirc didn't even begin to cover legal fees, emotional duress, or damage to her future employment). It's still a punchline in some circles and a lot of people think that she killed her baby/mock her for her claim that a dingo (which is like a wild Australian dog) killed her child.
Nah, I'm 35 but I never saw it on news over in America:/
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