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[The Brain]

And on a side note, it always amuses me when people bring up the \"McDonalds coffee lady\" when trying to prove the danger in frivolous lawsuits. Considering the coffee they sold her was not only hot, but near-boiling, caused third degree burns over 6% of her body, and McDonalds knew about problems caused by selling coffee that hot, the lawsuit was absoutely justified.

All right then, but what about the more recent attempt to sue McDonald's, when the parents of some (shall we say "hefty" children) sued McDonald's because <b>they were feeding their kids the stuff every single damn day and SURPRISE SURPRISE they got fat</b>. I mean, thank God that lawsuit got tossed out on its keister, but the fact remains that no one EVER wants to take responsibility for their own actions, it's always a case of if you fuck up, it has to be someone else's fault.

And it's not only lawsuits that need to be placed under control, it's the cash awards that can be given out from them. Some politicians (I think Bloomberg is leading the way locally) are trying to get a cap placed on how much a person can win from lawsuits against the city and such.