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I did take responsibility, apologised and removed said thread. I dont know what else I can say
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Well, Catherine, it would have been better if you had deleted because you realized that what you had posted was largely false. It would be better, you see, if you took responsibility, just like that thing was saying nobody does any more.
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I deleted because I didnt want to upset anyone else.
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Well said Janey but I don't think Cath would have meant any harm by her post.
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Im sorry if you were offended and I didn't mean to disparage anyone with posting.
Cath x
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I do hope its disappearance means that someone thought better of thoughtlessly circulating dumb obnoxious nonsense disguised as "common sense".
For anyone who believes that "popular wisdom" about that coffee scalding case, though, I'd like to post this again.
"COMMON SENSE finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. SHE spilled it in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement."
In fact, "SHE" was an elderly woman who bought the coffee from a huge business empire called McDONALDS. She was sitting in a parked car, holding the coffee between her legs as she pried the plastic lid off it, and it spilled, resulting in third-degree burns on the inside of her thighs. THIRD-DEGREE BURNS, from a cup of coffee. If you spill your coffee at the kitchen table, is that what you expect?
That huge business empire KNEW that it sold its coffee at temperatures that could cause -- AND HAD CAUSED -- third degree burns. IT KNEW that its coffee had injured many people already because it was sold at temperatures such that it caused SERIOUS INJURY to people when it touched their skin. IT DIDN'T CARE. It put its profits ahead of people's safety.
McDonalds -- and all of us -- know that people sometimes spill things. When you sell millions and millions of cups of coffee to the public every day, SOMEONE is going to spill it on their skin, and someone is going to be seriously injured.
The JURY that decided this case -- and awarded way, way more money than the elderly woman who was injured had claimed -- decided that ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH, and McDonalds, like any other company that sells products to the public, should be held RESPONSIBLE for the harm it KNEW its products would cause.
How bout that, eh? RESPONSIBILITY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49¢ cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of her Ford Probe, and her grandson Chris parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee.
McDonald's required franchises to serve coffee at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C). At that temperature, the coffee would cause a third-degree burn in two to seven seconds. Prior to her lawsuit, there had been approximately 700 other burn cases involving McDonald's between 1982 and 1992.
Stella placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap. Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin.
] Liebeck was taken to the hospital, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns on six percent of her skin and lesser burns over sixteen percent. She remained in the hospital for eight days while she underwent skin grafting. During this period, Liebeck lost 20 pounds (nearly 20% of her body weight), reducing her down to 83 pounds. Two years of medical treatment followed.
Now let's all keep sending emails around that disparage this woman as some sort of example of what is wrong with the world today.
What's actually wrong with the world today is that we have corporations like McDonalds, and too many more to even begin to name, doing things to our world that harm us and everything else in it.
And that so many millions and millions of people are so willing to blame one seriously injured 79-year-old woman for what's wrong with the world.
If we have learned only one thing from this, please let it be:
use some COMMON SENSE next time you find lies in your email inbox.
And then, maybe take the next step. Ask why someone wants you to believe those lies.
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