Coffee lady all over again. Deliberately misusing a product should completely idemnify the manufacturer as far as I'm concerned. We live in the age where the warning labels are ten pages of an eleven page instruction book for goddamn batteries, and we need to just let the terminally stupid die already.
McDonald's hot coffee? That suit was very low on the frivolity scale. The coffee burned through a thin layer of clothing and left third-degree burns around the lady's groin. She requested only that medical expenses be covered and the corporation was sniffing too far up it's own ass to settle.
And yet here we are with the implications of that today.
Because if you can take a product explicitly labeled "hot coffee", put it between your legs and of course you get burned but still sue... Then of course you can drink caffeine until you die and still sue the restaurant.
If liability can't be waived with clear textual or verbal warnings in English affirmed by customer, sure I'd agree. But "hot" isn't a reasonably unambiguous qualifier for scalding coffee served at a nationwide chain drive through.
Coffee lady all over again. Deliberately misusing a product should completely idemnify the manufacturer as far as I'm concerned. We live in the age where the warning labels are ten pages of an eleven page instruction book for goddamn batteries, and we need to just let the terminally stupid die already.
McDonald's hot coffee? That suit was very low on the frivolity scale. The coffee burned through a thin layer of clothing and left third-degree burns around the lady's groin. She requested only that medical expenses be covered and the corporation was sniffing too far up it's own ass to settle.
And yet here we are with the implications of that today.
Because if you can take a product explicitly labeled "hot coffee", put it between your legs and of course you get burned but still sue... Then of course you can drink caffeine until you die and still sue the restaurant.
If liability can't be waived with clear textual or verbal warnings in English affirmed by customer, sure I'd agree. But "hot" isn't a reasonably unambiguous qualifier for scalding coffee served at a nationwide chain drive through.