Woman Burned by McDonald's Hot Coffee, Then the News Media

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7. Except for the fact that the coffee was far hotter than it should have been

you might have a point, but unfortunately, you don't.

The fact is that the coffee was far, far hotter than necessary or required.

If you spill coffee on yourself, you expect some redness, a yelp and that's about it, you don't expect 3rd degree burns. If she had sipped that coffee at the temperature it was served, the third degree burns would have been on her mouth.

But you've done a wonderful job of blaming the victim.

It's also worth noting that the award she was granted amounted to about 2 days worth of coffee sales for McDonalds . . . hardly a significant amount to them in the overall scheme of thin and nowhere near the catastrophe that people portrayed it to be.