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Woman sues because she thought crunchberries were real berries
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Christopher
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Eaten By A Grue said:
snozberry?? Who ever heard of a snoxberry
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
If this happened in Europe, it would be the EU suing the company.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
At least now she can buy Frankenberry without having to worry.
Diatribe1974
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tokkun said:A Boo-berry muffin would be pretty good.
Boo-Berry freaking ROCKED as a kid. Too many assholes loved Count Chocula at my house & friends houses
Ignatz Mouse
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Ferrio said:
My wife works in retail marketing. I think it's probably one of the following:
Experiment to see what the market thinks of the product
Short-term manipulation of sales numbers/shelf space
JoshuaJSlone
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Not a collection of various people's stuff, but here's one man's craziness I bookmarked long ago.riskVSreward said:
Ignatz Mouse
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Botolf said:
There were scads of copycat suits in its wake, unfortunately.
reggieandTFE
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bigcheese said:
This comment makes the story even better.
Ignatz Mouse
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Monroeski said:
And she attempted to settle for her medical costs alone ($20,000) before being refused and taking them to court. And they knew the coffee was too hot and had hundreds of incidents on file. And the coffee was about 190 degrees, which is about 40-50 over normal serving temperature for even hot coffee.
I hate how the media sensationalizes all of these cases to get ratings, and then people have all the wrong ideas.
BladeWorker said:
You know, that woman recieved third degree burns, right? Coffee is not supposed to be hot enough to seperate your skin from the underlyng tissue.
She also originally only sought enough money from McDonalds to cover her hospital bills, and only upped it when they started refusing and giving her the run around.
AndrewG009
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DiatribeEQ said:
Second.
SnakeswithLasers
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industrian said:
Except they'd be suing Quaker for having a monopoly on Crunch Berries and demand that they pay restitution to General Mills.
TheRagnCajun
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shintoki said:
Yeah I actually already lost my 'Everlasting Gobstopper" lawsuit.
Squirrel Killer
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The McDonald's Spilled Coffee case has gone around so many times it hard to tell fact from urban legend.Ignatz Mouse said:
A) McDonald's offered her $800 for her medical costs after she asked for $11,000, and when her costs rose to $20,000 she hired a lawyer. Both parties then went to a mediator who recommended a $225,000 settlement. McDonald's balked and the case went to trial.
B) The hundreds of complaints (~700) were in aggregate across all of McDonald's (tens of thousands of locations worldwide) over a ten year period.
C) The plaintiff claimed the coffee was between only 165 and 170 degrees, a temperature which is within industry standards. In fact, McMahon v Bunn-O-Matic specifically held that 179 degree coffee is not unreasonably dangerous.
keeblerdrow
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I say if a law firm or independent attorney brings a suit to court and loses or it is dismissed with prejudice, the firm should have to pay a fine. Put a monetary stake in determining the case's worth BEFORE it sees a judge.
keeblerdrow said:
it'd be nice, the problem, though, is that once you start putting up these kinds of barriers, you'll inevitably end up prevent some LEGITIMATE cases from being brought to trial.
Also, the lawyers would ust increase their fees to cover this, so it wouldn't effect them anyway.
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