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[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

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.

I don't know how long she was sitting for, but if it was hot enough to give her a 3rd degree burn, she probably wasn't sitting for too long.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I don't know how long she was sitting for, but if it was hot enough to give her a 3rd degree burn, she probably wasn't sitting for too long.

I think if a bench is hot enough to give you third degree burns, you should be able to tell when you sit down on it that it's too hot. If I sit down on a bench that's extremely hot, I'm smart enough to know to get right back up immediately rather than sit there and burn my ass. With all that said, I'm no doctor, so if it can be proven she sat on the bench for a very minimal amount of time and got 3rd degree burns from it then by all means feel free to prove me wrong. Personally this just sounds like the hot coffee incident all over again.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

I think if a bench is hot enough to give you third degree burns, you should be able to tell when you sit down on it that it's too hot. If I sit down on a bench that's extremely hot, I'm smart enough to know to get right back up immediately rather than sit there and burn my ass. With all that said, I'm no doctor, so if it can be proven she sat on the bench for a very minimal amount of time and got 3rd degree burns from it then by all means feel free to prove me wrong. Personally this just sounds like the hot coffee incident all over again.

I'm sure she got skin grafts just for the hell of it.

You don't expect to burn your ass when you sit down on a bench. Spilling hot coffee on yourself, yeah the expectation is you're gonna get burned.

Sometimes people do get legitimately hurt, and sometimes yes a 3rd party needs to take some responsibility. Not every suit is trash like the hot coffee deal.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I'm sure she got skin grafts just for the hell of it.

You don't expect to burn your ass when you sit down on a bench. Spilling hot coffee on yourself, yeah the expectation is you're gonna get burned.

Sometimes people do get legitimately hurt, and sometimes yes a 3rd party needs to take some responsibility. Not every suit is trash like the hot coffee deal.

I'm not questioning whether the skin grafts were legit, I'm sure she actually suffered 3rd degree burns as a result of this. I'm just questioning how long she had to sit on that bench before she realized her ass was burning. If she sat down and immediately suffered 3rd degree burns within a reasonable time span than sure the Cowboys should be held responsible. But if she sat on the bench for half an hour with her ass burning the whole time I wouldn't put that on the Cowboys.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

I'm not questioning whether the skin grafts were legit, I'm sure she actually suffered 3rd degree burns as a result of this. I'm just questioning how long she had to sit on that bench before she realized her ass was burning. If she sat down and immediately suffered 3rd degree burns within a reasonable time span than sure the Cowboys should be held responsible. But if she sat on the bench for half an hour with her ass burning the whole time I wouldn't put that on the Cowboys.

If that's the case she must have a crazy pain threshold

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

If that's the case she must have a crazy pain threshold

Actually going back to my wiki chart for burns they have 3rd and 4th degree listed as painless. I am guessing it literally burns up your nerves.

Burn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Actually going back to my wiki chart for burns they have 3rd and 4th degree listed as painless. I am guessing it literally burns up your nerves.

Burn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah who knows, maybe she was sitting there for a while not aware of the extent of it. Maybe it's like sitting in the sun for a while, it's not until hours later that you really feel the burn and the pain sets in.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Actually going back to my wiki chart for burns they have 3rd and 4th degree listed as painless. I am guessing it literally burns up your nerves.

Burn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I don't know how long she was sitting for, but if it was hot enough to give her a 3rd degree burn, she probably wasn't sitting for too long.

They have 3 statues in the plaza behind centerfield at Nationals Ballpark that sit on black marble bases. I made the mistake of leaning on one last summer - it seriously hurt like hell and I could imagine that if I'd had more pressure at the contact point it might have left a mark of some kind. Those things get hot as hell!