“I thought I was dying - that’s how bad it was,” said Shea, a mother of two who lives in Dongan Hills. “All my skin was pulled back like a nylon stocking a lady takes off.”
So, she’s suing Dunkin Donuts because she “suffered second- and third-degree burns after the cardboard tray she was holding in the passenger seat of a friend’s car toppled and spilled over her left leg and ankles.”
Now, at first this caused me some doubt, because I had always thought third-degree burns meant you had charring of flesh. As it turns out, that’s wrong: “A third-degree burn is the most serious because it destroys all the layers of the skin.”
So, yeah… That coffee had to be thermo-friggin’-nuclear! How does that even happen?
If she is awarded any money, she should receive it concurrent with a smack to the side of the head. Yeah, they shouldn’t have had the coffee so hot, but 15 milly? Shove it up your ass, lady. I know a thing or two about pain, and using it as an excuse to try to pad your pocket is fecking sickening. Dunkies should give her 10K + cost of treatmet and tell her to quit her bitching.
you’re lucky you weren’t holding a DD coffee when you rolled. or this lady is lucky that she wasn’t in a cheap ass mitsu minivan with three defective tires.
Similar to the infamous multi-million $ McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, the woman likely sought compensation for injuries, and was likely denied because it show culpability on the part of the DD chain.
“The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn’t have brought the lawsuit against McDonald’s had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.” - http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
The judgement in her suit was decided by the average proceeds from coffee sales on a given day from McDonald’s operations worldwide. The jury decided to take worldwide sales because of the following McFacts:
“McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald’s had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald’s knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.”
I would not be surprised if the problem is system throughout the DD chain, and I would not be surprised if they knew that their coffee was being served too hot. Coffee should be brewed/served between 88 & 93 C degrees (190.4-199.4 F degrees). Often, fast food joints serve at 100 C degrees or greater (212 F degrees), which many of you might realize is the boiling point of water. That’s WAY too friggin hot. The chain should be held responsible for burning people internally, as well as externally.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/DianaGendler.shtml
Check out the big brain on Matt!
I will say this: I have yet to meet a large DoDu’s regular I couldn’t down in 15 minutes. But, that’s a regular, so there’s cream and sugar in there to cool that shit down…
I miss D&D so much some days I’d pay the 15mil just to get sprayed down with some of that scalding hot liquid love. Anyway, if you can’t hold on to a pint, you shouldn’t be in the pub, right.
For every dumb ass that spills the coffee and tries to sue there are three more bitching that the coffee isn’t hot enough. Eventually, we’ll all have to sign waivers at the drive through. I blame the manufacturer of the cheap and useless cardboard trays. If I had a dollar for every Dunkin Donuts large regular the interior of my car consumed…
… you’d be able to buy 1/2 of them back?
not at today’s coffee prices;.)