Woman "owns" the Sun - Page 14

On November 27 2010 16:48 Kazius wrote:
From a legal perspective, everyone with skin cancer now has someone to sue.

On November 28 2010 03:39 mvpAKAenvyME wrote:


All im saying is, she should've been more careful. If you purchase a lambo and drive it on the autobahn at 300km/h and crash it and paralyze yourself, would you sue them because they made a car go too fast?

Mcdonalds can't be responsible for other peoples stupidity. If this case holds up, then why hasn't every fat person in the US sued mcdonalds for making them fat?

On November 28 2010 05:02 Krigwin wrote:

It's reasonable to expect a normal person to know that crashing a car when you're going real fast will hurt you, a lot. It's not so reasonable to expect coffee to do so much damage you need skin grafts. I mean, we've all spilled boiling water or coffee or whatever on ourselves before, how many times did it result in such serious injury we needed to go to the hospital?

There actually was a lawsuit against McDonald's for making two kids fat (Pelman v McDonald's Corp) and they had a legitimate case (although it failed) as, while it might be reasonable to expect fast food to be unhealthy, it's unreasonable to expect people to know just how incredibly bad it can be - ie cause massive obesity in children. It sparked off a wave of lawsuits against McDonald's in many states for corporate liability and the huge anti-fast food wave of the early 00s was what led to such "health food" reform and nutrition focus in fast food chains.

Plainly speaking, it's okay to blame people for being stupid and not knowing the risks of something they're doing, but not okay when there's no way of them knowing just how incredible those risks are (because you never tell them).

On November 28 2010 06:56 mvpAKAenvyME wrote:


I worked at tim horton's when I was in grade 10, it was my first job...and I KNOW for a fact that I spilled an entire coffee pot of boiler WATER (not coffee) on my hand and arm, this water also had cleaning chemicals in it, and I did not get serious burns, infact there was no blisters and after about 2 minutes of cold water being run over it, it did not hurt whatsoever. This lady must have been wearing NO PANTS or any clothes at all for that matter if it caused burns of that severity. Either that, or she just has some of the weakest skin known to man. But boiling water isn't that hot, I've been burned in my shower worse than when I've dropped boiling water on myself. Maybe I just have troll skin or something, but I think it's totally bullshit that she got away with that lawsuit. As much as I don't like mcdonalds, that's just retarded. Also, 185 degrees fehreinheit is only 85 degrees celcius which is 15 degrees lower than boiling point. So obviously the coffee wasnt THAT hot, maybe this lady just had some sort of medical condition that caused her to burn much easier than most people, because I know for one when I make kraft dinner, I routinely put my fingers in the water to see if its about to boil and I've never been hurt by it. Even if I leave them in there for a few seconds. This lady was just a pussy. End of story.

Could I sue a company for burning my mouth on a beverage? Say...it ruined my taste?