thats what happens when you spill boiling water on yourself. its not mcd's responsibility. my sister accidently splashed boiling water on her foot a few years ago and suffered severe burns, shes suppose to sue the company that sold her the pot?
The said woman was stupid enough to put hot coffee in her lap and drive. Stupidity should not be rewarded!!!
Very interesting. The meat in Wendy's chili is hamburger meat that "died", or was on the grill too long and either dried out or burned. The meat is collected, but into a pan with water and then boiled for an hour or two. Once the meat has been thoroughly boiled, the water is drained out and the meat is chopped (using two grill spatulas) into pea-sized pieces. So I gotta wonder how a hole human finger (a) wasn't noticed in the hamburger patty that it had to have been in and (b) how it managed to survive the meat chopping process intact. I've seen people put flies in their burgers before to get free food, I wonder how far a person would go to get a juicy lawsuit against a major corporation...
McDonalds served their coffee at 190, instead of 160 like other places, despite having been sued and settling ~700 lawsuits over the previous decade on the basis of the coffee being too hot. At 190, it takes coffee 2 or 3 seconds to scald the skin bad enough for 3rd degree (skin completely burned off) burns. At 160, it takes closer to 30 seconds for those same burns. They knew that they were subjecting their customers to a significant risk by serving them coffee at that temperature, and yet they did it anyway. Now, it's served at a more reasonable temp. Btw, the award was reduced from 3 mil to about 500k on appeal.
So McDonalds already knew they'd been serving it too hot for a decade prior to that? Man, learn something new everyday. I don't think she deserved those millions that she never got, the ones that people on tort reform rants always complain about. Of course since they've known that it's been too hot, paying her bills should have been appropriate.
You are correct - Stupidity should not be rewarded. However, McDonald's selling a liquid at 190F is not the woman's fault. That is hot enough to result in 3rd degree burns. Furthermore, McDonalds knew their coffee was kept to hot and did not make any adjustments - prompting the jury to become a little less sympathetic towards the company.... http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee/truth.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2005-03-29-wendy-usat_x.htm Fingertip in chili remains a mystery at Wendy's By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY Wendy's (WEN) is in a serious image pickle. One week after a woman eating at a Wendy's in the San Jose, Calif., area says she found a human fingertip in her chili, area sales continue to fall. National sales have not been hit, though the story has become fodder for late-night comics. Wendy's is desperately trying to prove its innocence. The company says it investigated the March 22 incident and insists the 1.5-inch fingertip — which appears to be a woman's because it was manicured — did not come from the restaurant or any of its suppliers. "We haven't found anything to support allegations Wendy's or our supply chain were the source of the object in question," says spokesman Bob Bertini. So, who is at fault? "We can't speculate." He says no finger injuries were reported by any of Wendy's chili suppliers, and no employees at the restaurant reported injuries or missing fingertips. "It didn't appear an accident occurred at the location," says Humphrey Karioki, a supervisor in Santa Clara County's Department of Environmental Health. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is still trying to lift a print from the fingertip and identify it, says Deputy Terrance Helm, a spokesman. But an attorney for the woman says he's pressing ahead and trying to financially settle for his 39-year-old client, Anna Ayala of Las Vegas. She was visiting relatives in the San Jose area. "I've had discussions (with Wendy's) but nothing's come of it yet," says Jeffrey Janoff, the San Jose attorney. He says no lawsuit has been filed, although he has filed a claim with the Wendy's franchise owner, a first step before a lawsuit. The claim did not specify damages. Ayala has said she crumbled crackers into her bowl of chili and took a big mouthful. She felt something odd and spit out the fingertip, then vomited when she saw it, she says. "There's no words to describe what I felt, what was going through me," Ayala said Monday on Good Morning America. "I mean, it is something that's — my God, it is sick." Janoff says Ayala, who also spoke to the San Jose Mercury News, is declining all other interviews. "Every time she talks about it, it raises the issue again and she's trying to cope with it," he says. Ayala is receiving "medical attention," but is not hospitalized, he says. Janoff says he's also representing other relatives dining with Ayala who are also seeking compensation. Crisis-management experts say Wendy's is in a very tough spot. "This is a very sick form of product tampering," says crisis-management guru Ian Mitroff. "How could a person not know that a part of their finger was sliced off?" Wendy's should aggressively inform the public that its food is safe, he says. "And they need to prepare for possible psychological contamination from this."
Can't they just take DNA samples of the finger, and then see how/when that person sliced off their finger? That should pretty much prove everything...
I'd say the firm that supplied Wendy's the chilli must have hired illiegal migrants... If not, then howcome Wendy's has not received a report of work accident?
DING DING DING!!! I think she planted it and is trying to get some cash out of the multi-million dollar company...
