06-21-2003, 04:40 AM
They sold a product that they knew was dangerous.
The consumer should know better than to spill coffee on themselves. The consumer should not, however, expect third degree burns should shit happen. When your product has been documented as dangerous, and you've not taken steps to correct this - or to distinguish your product from similar products on the marketplace that are not dangerous - you should expect to face the consequences when your product causes injury.
And I'm not saying people should be protected, or even rewarded, for their own stupidity. Far from it. I am saying, that as a consumer of a popular product in America, the assumption among the majority is that the product is safe, unless common knowledge or warnings dictate otherwise. When I buy a coffee, I am under the assumption that spilling it will hurt - not that it will cost me thousands of dollars and put me in the hospital for days. This is based on every other cup of coffee I've ever consumed (or spilled on myself in the haze of half-sleep I know as morning). If I sell a cup of boiling water to someone and tell them it's ok to drink (as a cup of coffee is assumed to be safe to drink), and it turns out to be untrue, I'm at the very least partially at fault.
Besides, McDonalds coffee is absoutely the worst tasting coffee in the world. They should be sued for even fucking trying to pass that shit off as coffee. <--joke, but true
The consumer should know better than to spill coffee on themselves. The consumer should not, however, expect third degree burns should shit happen. When your product has been documented as dangerous, and you've not taken steps to correct this - or to distinguish your product from similar products on the marketplace that are not dangerous - you should expect to face the consequences when your product causes injury.
And I'm not saying people should be protected, or even rewarded, for their own stupidity. Far from it. I am saying, that as a consumer of a popular product in America, the assumption among the majority is that the product is safe, unless common knowledge or warnings dictate otherwise. When I buy a coffee, I am under the assumption that spilling it will hurt - not that it will cost me thousands of dollars and put me in the hospital for days. This is based on every other cup of coffee I've ever consumed (or spilled on myself in the haze of half-sleep I know as morning). If I sell a cup of boiling water to someone and tell them it's ok to drink (as a cup of coffee is assumed to be safe to drink), and it turns out to be untrue, I'm at the very least partially at fault.
Besides, McDonalds coffee is absoutely the worst tasting coffee in the world. They should be sued for even fucking trying to pass that shit off as coffee. <--joke, but true