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Originally Posted by analog
People win lawsuits for spilling hot coffee in their lap and blaming the restaurant for it burning them- because they weren't warned it would be hot... weren't warned that coffee- a hot beverage- would be hot. And won.
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This is completely derailing the thread and is nitpicking, but I have to comment since we talked about this case in Law class. The coffee was from McDonald's and was handed to the woman at the drive-through. She spilled it on her legs and had to get skin graft surgery due to the burns. The burns were bad enough to require plastic surgery and thousands of dollars of hospital visits. That lawsuit was won fair and square...now McDonald's has to keep their coffee like 40 degrees cooler than it used to be so the drive-through people don't have to get skin grafts if the lid pops open. 
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