SBCC Student Sues School Over Hot Coffee

you have got to be kidding me.... this is what is so very wrong with society today.. sue happy... perhaps the next time she want coffee she should get it iced... perhaps then she might sue for frost bite...get a life..

They learn young these days how to game the system - so sad. Personal accountability/maturity is a thing of the past.

Sounds like the 1994 McDonald's coffe case all over again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...

This is 0.01% crowd. The rest of us 99.99% who have been burned by coffee just curse a liitle and GET OVER IT and MOVE FORWARD!

how was she burnt? Any facts about the story would be nice.

Passagerider beat me to it. I just thought of something: Can I sue the makers of my microwave oven if I burn myself with something I overcook?

This is an April Fool's joke huh? Really, tell me it is, even if it ain't April yet.
WHAT A PUTZ! How much you guys wanna bet her parent(s) told her the following: "Go for it honey, SBCC has TONS of $$$, they won't miss it."
I hope she loses miserably! Here's your so-called "99%" in action :) henry

That wiki link went nowhere but what most people don't know that the coffee in question was scalding, not just hot and the woman suffered severe genital injury.
Now as for this case on the leg, unless it was scalding and leg is just a euphemism; I say BS.

*the woman in the McDonald's case suffered actual disfigurement.

KenV: "*the woman in the McDonald's case suffered actual disfigurement."

That's what you get when you put a vessel (cup) filled w/ a low viscosity fluid (hot coffee), between your legs & introduce momentum (press the car's gas pedal), which makes the low viscosity fluid (hot coffee) behave in accordance w/ the momentum applied (slosh) in the vessel (cup).
The vessel (cup) had zero containment (no proper lid) & therefore the low viscosity fluid (hot coffee) went outside the vessel's (cup) limit boundary (rim).
This is a fancy way of saying "if you put a cup of coffee w/ no lid between your legs in a car & hit the gas, it's gonna splash on you.
We're rewarding stupidity, that's all we're doing, rewarding the stupid human tricks. McDonald's anyone? :) henry

Wow, the Olympic Finals in the Jumping-To-Conclusions category right here in SB. Who knew? Sadly, our friend hank is disqualified due to his stepping over the twitterspeak line.

Liebeck vs. McDonalds (coffee case)

The wiki link truncates in the comment field. Sorry.

wow, seems like so little of us actually know anything about that mcdonalds case the way it has been criticized here. Watch this before you say anything negative about the victim again:
http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Defa...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKRjx...
Still want that tort reform? Still laughing about that mcdonalds hot coffee joke?

who knows if the student suffered similarly, but it makes one look bad to shill for corporations that cause harm, injure, and alter ones life in very negative ways.

She will have the burden of proof that the coffee was “excessively hot and unreasonably dangerous". In reality there will be no real proof of that. However, judging by the postings of SezMe and spacey, it probably won't be hard to find 12 people that can be fooled into believing that the coffee was “excessively hot and unreasonably dangerous”, without producing any actual evidence that it was.

Do NOT hold these things between your legs:

Hot liquids of ANY kind
Liquids with a very low pH
Sharp objects
Poisonous snakes
Intemperate animals
Intemperate girlfriends
Occupiers (they're very dirty)

All have been known to cause "genital injury" when proper precautions have not been exercised. This has been a public service announcement.

SuZie: "Wow, the Olympic Finals in the Jumping-To-Conclusions category right here in SB. Who knew? Sadly, our friend hank is disqualified due to his stepping over the twitterspeak line."

Hey toughy, you spoke twitspeak the other day, feel better now that you've caught up w/ the world?
Here, let me buy you a pack of gum, I'll show you how to chew it. Now go spill some hot coffee on yourself :) henry

This is why I rarely read the comments here anymore. People are SO quick to jump to conclusions and condemn with almost no info. From what I heard about this is that it came out of the machine scalding and hit her leg--- she didn't have a cup between her legs while driving like the other case.

Whatsername: "From what I heard about this is that it..."

Alright, I'll admit to jumping to conclusions if you admit that you're going by hearsay, a BIG no-no in thr court of law :) henry

boycott HAnk - rhymes with wank...

OVERPOSTER

Are you the nonni w/ the dirty choneys? :) henry

"From what I heard about this is that it came out of the machine scalding and hit her leg."
- whatsername

Aren't you supposed to put it in a cup?