Maybe she should have been wearing Dr. Scholl's Gel insoles. ;)
Posted on 11/17/2005 8:49:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Staten Island woman wants $10 million for being scalded by a cup of coffee.
Sharon Shea said she suffered second- and third-degree burns to her legs when two steaming cups of joe tumbled out of the carrier tray as she and a friend drove away from the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot on Forest Avenue.
Shea insists the coffee was too hot and the work- ers didn't fasten the lids tightly enough.
"The [drive-thru] girl had positioned them where they were in the same line [on the tray], they weren't cattycorner," said Shea, 60.
"Just as the car was about to stop, the coffee — those lids couldn't have been on tight, no way in the world — the coffee toppled over onto my leg, and right away I said, 'I'm dying, I'm dead!' "
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I just wish that sometime I would have the opportunity to serve a freakin' numbskull like this. I'd hand them a paper bag (no inner hot fluid container) just full of scalding hot coffee - and watch it tumble into their upper lap and burn the parts of the body that would keep them from doing those acts that could propagate this particular flaw.
Did she find a finger in the cup too?
Maybe she should have been wearing Dr. Scholl's Gel insoles. ;)
The lady from the infamous McDonald's coffee case suffered third degree burns over 6% of her body. At the time, McDonald's policy was to keep its coffee at 180 degrees (hotter than the fast food joint average).
I think experts in that case said that 150 was a good temperature at which coffee burns are minimized because the coffee cools fast enough on contact to avoid serious injury. Anyone keeping coffee hotter than that is endangering their customers.
I don't know much about this particular situation. Maybe the lady is a lying money-hungry crazyperson, I can't say. But it is entirely possible to be seriously injured by coffee burns from needlessly, stupidly hot coffee.
Her we go again. Those cardboard carriers were not meant to sit on the center console in a car...that's what the car cup holders are for.
Any idiot knows when you "peel away" they are going to end up on the floor...or your lap.
Note to stupid wench, coffee is hot.
I drink D&D's coffee every day and their warning labels say "caution contents may be very hot." They don't just say hot like McDonalds or 7-11, but VERY hot. That's a stern warning, that's a wagging your finger warning. She shoulda known better. If she gets any money out of this I'd be amazed. I hope she chokes on a teddy bear's eye just for laughs.
You're a DD fan. Ping
Staten Island. Nuff said.
I'm sorry, I must have missed the part of the story where the store clerk FORCED this person to drive away without securing the coffee FIRST--since she OBVIOUSLY knew the cups should have been 'cattycornered', d'oh!
No way she's getting a dime from DD. Now, if the clerk had poured the coffee into her lap from the window, maybe...but SHE DROVE AWAY. DD is not responsible for her once she leaves the premises, correct?
The whole suit is because of the McD coffee suit, but that suit had very specific circumstances surrounding it.
3rd degree burns are where your skin is charred from the flame. How exactly did a cup of coffee do this?
ping for later read...
I would love to see Ronald McDonald appear as a character witness.
OMG i will have to boycott the place at once, they serve coffee that is HOT!!
The coffee holder was on her lap. It sounds like she didn't hold it when the car pulled away. I don't know this lady's situation but with my mom, she got a phonecall from McDonald's. I'm sure they called because they're more afraid of her suing over the racist manager than hot coffee!
I like my coffer hot, not lukewarm. When I get McDonald's coffe, I have to ask them to microwave it. These stupid idiots are going to ruin things for the rest of us. Maybe companies such as D&D and McDonalds should have stupidity releases in which people hold them harmless for their own carelessness.
"Staten Island. Nuff said."
I wonder which of the many ambulance chasing law firms on Staten Island is going to take this case?
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