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No, but I do recall one woman getting a jackpot because she spilled her coffee and there was no warning. Check your take-out cup now, there's a 'contents may be hot' tag.

Stupid people should be very late term aborted. Who'll decide? Me. I volunteer. If I make a mistake you can switch me off.

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To be fair, nobody discussed the fact that she had 3rd degree burns in her pelvic region. I know that's the poster child for dumb lawsuits but coffee shouldn't give you 3rd degree burns if you spill it on yourself.

To be fair, nobody discussed the fact that she had 3rd degree burns in her pelvic region. I know that's the poster child for dumb lawsuits but coffee shouldn't give you 3rd degree burns if you spill it on yourself.

I thought it was 2nd degree. Damn.

Reverse psychology?

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No, but I do recall one woman getting a jackpot because she spilled her coffee and there was no warning. Check your take-out cup now, there's a 'contents may be hot' tag.

Stupid people should be very late term aborted. Who'll decide? Me. I volunteer. If I make a mistake you can switch me off.

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i believe that mcdonalds had been repeatedly warned and had numerous complaints that their coffee was scolding hot .. and that lady got 3rd degree burns.

just hot coffee doesnt give you 3rd degree burns .. only unreasonably dangerous scolding hot coffee will.

http://harmfuldruginfocenter.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mcdonalds.jpg?w=300&h=213

I have a jury trial next week against WMATA and instead of the jury focusing on the actual facts of the case they will all decide it based upon the banana video they saw and the planted segments fox news shows about people trying to defraud insurance companies ....

** the pic above is pretty gross but click on it if you think she was served your average cup of hot joe and the woman was just being a nancy

i believe that mcdonalds had been repeatedly warned and had numerous complaints that their coffee was scolding hot .. and that lady got 3rd degree burns.

just hot coffee doesnt give you 3rd degree burns .. only unreasonably dangerous scolding hot coffee will.

http://harmfuldruginfocenter.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mcdonalds.jpg?w=300&h=213

I have a jury trial next week against WMATA and instead of the jury focusing on the actual facts of the case they will all decide it based upon the banana video they saw and the planted segments fox news shows about people trying to defraud insurance companies ....

** the pic above is pretty gross but click on it if you think she was served your average cup of hot joe and the woman was just being a nancy

There is a movie on the Hot Coffee lawsuit. Basically they handed her a cup of lava; it tore her legs and gentails apart.

HOT COFFEE, a documentary feature film (http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp)

Here is the wikipedia summary of the case:
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants)

McD's served the coffee at between 180-190 degrees.
A Keurig coffee maker (http://www.keurig.com/customer-service/brewer-registration-and-support/frequently-asked-questions#{B8B9175C-B03F-49EA-9450-776A7845965F}) has a range of 187-192
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Can I change the internal temperature of the brewer?
Answer
Several Keurig brewers ... are designed with an adjustable internal brew temperature. ... These brewers allow you to adjust the pre-set temperature of 192°F down by 5 degrees for a temperature range of 187-192°F.

Also, although the multimillion dollar number is always used, ultimately the amount awarded was less then $600K, which when you consider the length of the litigation, and the medical costs involved, probably was in a reasonable ballpark.

Call me pedantic, but why would you place a cup that close to your 'happy place'?

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Dafuq?

Undercover Investigation Finds Disturbing Animal Cruelty At Illegal Slaughterhouse (http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/undercover-investigation-finds-disturbing-animal-cruelty-illegal)

An investigation by the Animal Recovery Mission and Miami-Dade police revealed gut-wrenching animal abuse at an illegal Florida slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse’s owner, Raul ‘Freaky’ Fernandez, has been arrested and charged with seven counts of animal abuse.

In disturbing video captured by an undercover cameraman, workers at the slaughterhouse are seen laughing as they brutally stab, shoot, and boil living animals.

“On video surveillance, pigs can be seen being dragged, hook-mouthed through the jaw, at distances of approximately 150 feet, all while the animals remain alive,” Fernandez’s affidavit states.

One section of the footage shows a worker shooting a boar with a small caliber rifle. The pig doesn’t die. The worker then shoves a hook through the pig’s jaw and drags it well over 100 feet while the animal is still live. Next, the employee beats the pig for over three minutes.

The investigation also found that children were forced to watch in horror as the animals were tortured and slaughtered in the most inhumane ways imaginable.

I can't recommend the video. I do hope these people meet a slow, painful death.

This is a brave act, hopefully we'll get more with the realization that there are others like him:

Arab atheists inch out of shadows despite persecution in Mideast (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20130803-arab-atheists-inch-out-of-shadows-despite-persecution-in-mideast.ece)

Rafat Awad fervently preached Islam at his university, encouraging his fellow students to read the Quran and pray. But throughout, the young Palestinian-born pharmacist had gnawing doubts. The more he tried to resolve them, the more they grew.

Finally he told his parents, both devout Muslims, that he was an atheist. They brought home clerics to talk with him, trying in vain to bring him back to the faith. Finally, they gave up.

“It was the domino effect — you hit the first pin and it keeps on going and going,” Said Awad, 23, who grew up in the United Arab Emirates and lives there. “I thought: It doesn’t make sense anymore. I became a new person then.”

Being openly atheist is an extreme rarity in the Arab world, where the Muslim majority is on the whole deeply conservative. It’s socially tolerated to not be actively religious, to decide not to pray or carry out other acts of faith, or to have secular attitudes. But to outright declare oneself an atheist can lead to ostracism by family and friends, and if too public can draw retaliation from Islamist hard-liners or even authorities.

Still, this tiny minority has taken small steps out of the shadows. Groups on social media networks began to emerge in the mid-2000s. Now, the Arab Spring that began in early 2011 has given a further push: The heady atmosphere of “revolution” with its ideas of greater freedoms of speech and questioning of long-held taboos has encouraged this opening.

One 40-year-old Egyptian engineer, born a Muslim, told The Associated Press he had long been an atheist but kept it a deep secret. The 2011 uprising in Egypt and its calls for radical change encouraged him to look online for others like himself.

“Before the revolution, I was living a life in total solitude. I didn’t know anybody who believed like me,” he said. “Now we have more courage than we used to have.”

His case illustrates the limits on how far an atheist can go. Like most others interviewed by The Associated Press, he spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, harassment or troubles with his family. His “going public” is strictly online.