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Originally Posted by Mattyk
I don't know, seems kinda dumb to build a bench made out of black marble that's only going to bake and soak up heat in the Texas sun. Asking for trouble if you ask me.
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While Matty makes a good point about the bench, I still think if a person sits down somewhere and the thing they sit on is hot, they should be smart enough to get up instead of sitting on it long enough to get 3rd degree burns on their ass. That woman sounds pretty stupid to me.
And if she wins (very realistic given other frivolous lawsuits that were awarded damages in the past) all this is going to do is force signs to be put up warning people that benches and possibly other things will be hot. The money needed for such things will have to come from somewhere else, which means more money will be wasted on things that aren't needed. Most people have common sense, and if we have to protect the idiots that don't have common sense it will only hurt us in the future.