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http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_883_40-myths-we-believe-now-due-to-tiny-mistakes-years-ago/?v=1
Also: why it's perfectly acceptable to call Frankenstein's monster "Frankenstein", women's periods don't attract bears, and Washington's "wooden" teeth.
randys1
(16,286 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)unblock
(52,331 posts)eventually i think they settled for an undisclosed amount belived to be in the neighborhood of a $250,000-$300,000 or so.
the victim probably got rather little after the lawyers and doctors took their cut.
yet it's the poster-child case for calls for "tort reform".
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)As one of the conditions for settling the case, so that the victim could receive some compensation without further litigation delay, McDonald's insisted on and got a gag order. The victim and her lawyer had to agree not to talk to the media about the case. McDonald's and its fellow corporate criminals were thus left free to spread their version of the case without fear of refutation by the people who had the best access to the facts.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Granted it was because I was getting scans and tests done for most of the night and I didn't sleep that night in the ER.
Also, I hear that Cracked is changing their name to Clickbait.com
unblock
(52,331 posts)they should keep you awake, according to dr. cracked.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)What gives?
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)the proper temp for extraction. If someone asked us to turn down the heat, we'd probably refuse.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)And contrasted those against costs of brewing at a lower temperature then finally decided to brew the coffee at a temperature that exceeds the safety recommendations of industry experts because it would be more profitable?
Because McDonalds did all of that. A local coffee shop may go its entire existence without putting a single person in the hospital with several inches of thickness burnt off the skin. McDonalds with their "billions sold" were doing that on a regular basis. But they concluded that hospitalizing people was profitable.
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Owner of the Dairy Queen franchise where my aunt worked realized he could take advantage of radiant heat by placing pans for hot water on the stove tops. My aunt told him somebody reaching above their heads to pull that pan down would eventually drop the scalding water all over themselves. He thought it unlikely. As chance would have it, it was my aunt (already in her 60s) who did just that. She had to be hospitalized. The franchise owner paid her medical bills and discontinued the practice.
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Are you the guy who believes nobody is going to get seriously injured? Or the executives who know people are getting seriously injured, but choose to do it anyway to maximize profit?
And wouldn't you agree that makes a difference?
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FYI: Dairy Queen lawyers were unhappy with the man because paying her medical bills was tacit admission that he and, by extension, Dairy Queen (even though it was this guy's idea with Dairy Queen uninformed) was responsible for her injuries and therefore liable should she sue.
She did not, of course, sue. He paid her medical bills. That's all she wanted. Had he not ... I suppose she would have had no choice but to sue.