Iron Mal said:
Now, I can understand the need to point out the obvious to avoid the retarded members of the public from suing but...some of it it so obvious that surely it doesn't need a warning for example, the WARNING: CONTENTS ARE HOT on a cup of coffee. I'm guessing that the person who made an issue of this must have been able to feel the heat radiating from the cup when he placed it between his legs and when aquiring it would have probably asked for 'hot coffee'.
Now, while I do hate to defend, or even appear to defend, such idiotic lawsuits, I have to step up a second and mention this:
Everyone assumes a lot of things about infamous McDonald's Coffee lawsuit, in which a woman sued them because the coffee scalded her. Normally (and I say this with reservation because we may never know what with courts and companies these days) this wouldn't have ended the way it had. However, there are a lot of unknown facts that people assume about the case.
The coffee was in violation of health codes for being, yes, too hot. It was effectively able to give her (and any else who happened to spill it) second degree burns. The store in question had been visited by a Health Inspector repeatedly regarding that very issue. The store never made any adjustments, and when the impending burn occurred, the store was very much at fault for causing burns much more dangerous then they otherwise would have been.
The end result is head shakingly stupid ('Caution: Coffee is hot' was never in question) but alas, it is a way to prevent any more lawsuits, should a store fail to adhere to the Health Inspector's "suggested" coffee temperature.
We all know the news is really just 'hear-say'. We know they tend to leave out a few details, intentionally or not. And we all know that they will embellish a story to make it 'sell' better. I just wish people would take moment to consider things completely and even take a step to investigate it themselves before making snap judgments regarding the people involved.