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The woman's scalds were almost enough to kill her. She spent weeks in hospital and needed skin grafts. To make it worse, McDonald's had received multiple complaints about the temperature of their coffee.
Her lawsuit was just to help cover the medical expenses. McDonald's didn't want a precedence of being sued so their PR cooked up a narrative of greedy frivolous lawsuits and America bought this story hook line and sinker.
She even started out planning to accept the $800 oopsie poopsie money McDonald's offered her until her family was like "um. No? You've gone from independent living senior to permanently disabled. You deserve for them to pay the full medical bills"
It fused her labia together. The coffee was so hot and the burns were so bad that her labia fused together.
how the fuck does coffee even get that hot?
Step one: keep it on a hot plate that keeps it at 200° so that you can serve it longer
That is all the steps
There is an additional step:
Pouring hot coffee into a thick cold porcelain cup, tends to quickly cool it down to drinkable levels. A flimsy paper cup... not so much.
And now imagine giving that to a person in a moving vehicle without a lid.
There's so much fucked up here it's almost unbelievable. This is legitimately a bigger safety risk, after all is said and done, than many risks in an industrial chemical plant.
Good point
but water only goes to 100 degrees, even with other stuff dissolved i can't imagine a water-based liquid going much higher than like 120 degrees at most..
200 Fahrenheit. That's 93.3C. Just below literal boiling.
Edit for more information, an adult human will suffer 3rd degree burns if exposed to 150F (65.5C) liquid for two seconds. This was 133% hotter than liquid that will cause 3rd degree burns. And it was poured directly in her lap, soaked into cloth that she could not easily remove. This was straight up evil levels of negligent.
Just a quick note but neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit degrees can be used the way you’ve described - 200°F isn’t 133% of the temperature of 150°C and neither is 93.3°C 133% hotter than 65.5°C because the ‘zero’ point on both of those scales are entirely arbitrary.
The two temperatures you’re talking about are ~366.45 K and ~338.65 K, as kelvin is the only true SI measurement for temperature whose zero point describes a natural or true zero, meaning that the higher temperature is roughly ~8% hotter.
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I was a bit annoyed at the nitpickiness of this comment until I saw that you're from the NDP. I salute your good work and consider myself more educated.
Nice
To add on, even when something isn't boiling, it'll generate an appreciable amount of vapor. The boiling point is just the temperature at which bubbles form within the liquid. The top surface is still going to give off hot steam. I honestly don't know if near boiling vs boiling is a meaningful distinction in terms of how dangerous it is.
I wonder actually if a boiling liquid would be slightly safer because there's more vapor and less liquid.
They're using the stupid units.
We're talking bald eagle units
They had a slush fund set up specifically to pay out settlements for coffee burns.
They knew it was a problem, but decided it would be cheaper to pay off burn victims than to serve their coffee at a safe temperature.