Why do you sue?

Under the extreme pressures provided by the lead-lined McDonald's to-go coffee cup, in fact water can assume temperatures about 212 F. Of course, when it comes out it then vaporizes (or plasma-izes) perhaps explaining the burns.

BaldFriede wrote: Atavachron wrote: well ridiculous lawsuits are not necessarily representative of the vast majority of them, and even some of the legitimate ones will be dismissed.  I remember is the famous McDonalds one where the woman sued over a hot cup of coffee that burned her when she spilled it.  "Insane" most said including me, until I saw the photos of her injury and fond out the coffee had been mistakenly heated to a temperature close to that of the sun. Coffee can't be heated any more than the temperature of boiling water. And when you make coffee the water is boiling too, so the coffee can not have been unusually hot. It is physically impossible.

Edited by Equality 7-2521 - April 03 2009 at 11:46

I  think Negoba is getting to the point (or at least my problem with this system).

Atavachron wrote: well ridiculous lawsuits are not necessarily representative of the vast majority of them, and even some of the legitimate ones will be dismissed.  I remember is the famous McDonalds one where the woman sued over a hot cup of coffee that burned her when she spilled it.  "Insane" most said including me, until I saw the photos of her injury and fond out the coffee had been mistakenly heated to a temperature close to that of the sun.

What the w**ked up press never reports are the counter suites (sic) McDonalds sued the coffee bird and got the money back.

My favorite crazy one is the thief who broke into someone's house to rob them, fell on a knife, sued the owners of the house and won.  I agree though that there are a lot of legitimate lawsuits, but some have just gotten out of hand, probably because there are so many lawyers that they will try to take any case.  Products need to have all kinds of ridiculous warnings to prevent lawsuits and for people like doctors worrying about getting sued can get in the way of doing their jobs.

The other thing I dont understand is why our legal system will give millions of dollars to a person and their lawyer just to punish a company.  If you are going to hit them with some big punitive damages, that money should go to the government or something.

I welcome someone who knows something about the law to tell us why we are wrong, because I would bet there are strong arguments for things being the way they are.

Why do people sue?  Because people don't have the right to harm others and not suffer the consequences.  Sure, it gets abused.  Every system has its abuses.  But for every absurd lawsuit that somebody wins, there's a hundred cases of someone rightfully receiving reimbursement for damages from somebody's malicious or negligent behavior.  It's just not as newsworthy.  

Edited by rileydog22 - April 02 2009 at 21:23

It is with great regret i write this post, as it seems suing is a regular pastime. Ameica must take full blame for this ridiculous situation that we find oursleves in.

There is a famous case where a woman in the US poured water over her male partner in a resturant, she then stood up slipped on the water (remember this twit had already poured the same water over her companion) broke her ankle, sued the resturant and won 138000 dollars.

America take a good look at yourselves....

UK and europe.....we're heading down this money for injury route regardless who is to blame.

I hate the whole thing....accidents happen....grow up and get a life.

Edited by visitor2035 - April 02 2009 at 21:11