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Title: Teen burned in KFC poutine mishap
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-01-19 00:56:23
Canadian

[Choban]

I�m not looking for $10 million,� Lakin said. �I�m looking for someone to stand up and say, �We�re sorry Mr. Lakin, we�re sorry Kendell. We want to make this right and hey everybody this food is hot.��

This guys a jerk off, sure I understand that your daughter got hurt, but man it was a totally random accident, she could have burned her face on Spagetti sauce at home, to blame KFC is just stupid and shows that yes your priorities are not your daughters health.
You want caution Hot labels on everything that ever goes out of a KFC? Hey Doorknob,it's gravy and melted cheese, of course it's hot.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Ok, a few things here I gotta comment on. First off, I feel really bad for the girl. THose burns look mighty painful and it's awful it happened. Initially when I saw the headline I thought it was an employee that got burned. Which brings up number 2. Her dad, while understandably upset about his daughter being hurt needs to understand that no one is at fault for what happened, even when he claimed some of it was his fault by letting her go by herself. As Choban said, this could just as easily have happened at home, or even a friends house.
3.Cheese requires a rather high temp to melt properly. Would his reaction have been the same had this happened in a pizza place with a fresh, piping hot pizza? Even if
he did react the same, it would still be just as irrational as blaming KFC for what did happen. And let's face it, you might as well assume that anything you get from a fast food dump that's liquid and meant to be hot, is gonna be freakin hot, ie gravy, coffee.
4.He's not suing for 10 million cuz no lawyer around here would even touch it. It's gonna be awful hard to prove negligence on KFC's part. Don't think for one minute he didn't make at least one phone call though.

5.

$1:

“... KFC in Canada is not only committed to ensuring that our customers receive high quality products...”

What a laugh. I think it's a toss-up between them and Taco Bell for the shittiest fast food chains as far as quality goes. I wouldn't eat at either of those 2 places on a bet or a dare. Ironically, it wasn't long after they FINALLY got good french fries that the chicken really started going downhill.

And finally, I hope the young lady has a full and speedy recovery from her burns. Seizures are bad enough to have to live with without freak occurrances like that happening.

[andyt]

Epileptic and eating poutine is just not a good way to go thru life.

[QBall]

Would the dad rather risk his daughter's life with salmonella by eating food that was undercooked? No way KFC, or any other restaurant for that matter, could have possibly foreseen someone planting their face into their poutine.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

Epileptic and eating poutine is just not a good way to go thru life.

Worse would be looking like the dude in your avatar.

[poquas]

What a ridiculous article. If the food was cold, that would have been the complaint.

There is absolutely no negligence on anyone’s part, and I can only assume that it was a slow news day and somebody had a quota to fill.

[GreenTiger]

This reminds me of the lady who ordered hot coffee burned herself on it and sued MCd for negiglence. He's not after $10 Million, probably 9.9 MIllion will due.

[Monkeyman]

The McDonald's coffee case was more complicated than most people think - the coffee was really, really, really, reallyreallyreally ridiculously hot. Unreasonably so. That woman was 79 years old and had serious burns. Her medical costs were $11,000 and, before the suit, McDonald's offered only to pay $800 of it.

[Choban]

Monkeyman Monkeyman:

The McDonald's coffee case was more complicated than most people think - the coffee was really, really, really, reallyreallyreally ridiculously hot. Unreasonably so. That woman was 79 years old and had serious burns. Her medical costs were $11,000 and, before the suit, McDonald's offered only to pay $800 of it.

The end result was her winning her case and "caution hot" labels on any hot beverage in North America. I still say the suit was unnessesary. The thin cups they give you coffee in don't block heat, you can tell your beverage is hot. McDonalds could have just paid the bills in the first place and saved themelves the lawsuit. There are still no real preventative measures in place from some other senior burning themselves on a hot coffee (not that I could think of any that would be viable myself either)
But we live in a day and age when unfortunately common sence does not prevail.

[andyt]

Monkeyman Monkeyman:

The McDonald's coffee case was more complicated than most people think - the coffee was really, really, really, reallyreallyreally ridiculously hot. Unreasonably so. That woman was 79 years old and had serious burns. Her medical costs were $11,000 and, before the suit, McDonald's offered only to pay $800 of it.

The coffee was hot, just the way I like it. For her to stick it next to her vagina was stupid, and should not be rewarded.

From wiki:

$1:

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants,[1] also known as the "McDonald's coffee case," is a 1994 product liability lawsuit that became a flashpoint in the debate in the U.S. over tort reform after a jury awarded $2.86 million to a woman who burned herself with hot coffee she purchased from fast food restaurant McDonald's. The trial judge reduced the total award to $640,000, and the parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided. The case entered popular understanding as an example of frivolous litigation;[2] ABC News calls the case “the poster child of excessive lawsuits.”[3]

Liebeck's attorneys argued that McDonald's coffee was "defective", claiming that it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other place. Moreover, McDonald's had refused several prior opportunities to settle for less than the $640,000 ultimately awarded.[4] Reformers defend the popular understanding of the case as materially accurate, note that the vast majority of judges who consider similar cases dismiss them before they get to a jury,[5] and argue that McDonald's refusal to offer more than a nuisance settlement reflects the meritless nature of the suit rather than any wrongdoing.[6][7][8]

[BeaverFever]

Another interesting fact that was presented in the McD's case was that there had been several hundred warnings to McD about their coffee in the past and the claimant was able to prove in court that McD DELIBERATELY kept their coffee at an unreasonably hot temperature despite numerous and widespread complaints because it "improved the taste."

$1:

McDonalds also said during discovery that, based on a consultants
advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit to
maintain optimum taste....Other establishments sell
coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is
generally 135 to 140 degrees.

Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin
burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full
thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds. Other testimony
showed that as the temperature decreases toward 155 degrees, the extent
of the burn relative to that temperature decreases exponentially. Thus,
if Liebeck's spill had involved coffee at 155 degrees, the liquid would
have cooled and given her time to avoid a serious burn.

[Excerpted from ATLA fact sheet. © 1995, 1996 by Consumer Attorneys of
California]
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm

With respect to the KFC case, I get that at some point we have to be careful with hot food, but if the food is unreasonably hot is the issue. There is not any food on the planet that should served a temperature that causes serious burns on contact. But how long was this girl scuba-diving in her gravy while she was having a seizure? If the burn was on contact, then the food obviously wasnt in the temp range that the "income fund" claims. But if she had that stuff on her face for like 30 seconds while she was convulsing, then it seems reasonable that she'd have burns from food at normal temperature.

[Lemmy]

Anybody who'd take their kids to eat KFC obviously doesn't care much about their children's health in the first place.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Frivolous lawsuits are rather ridiculous. I mean what's next, some guy burns his nutsack making tea cuz the directions say 'soak bag in boiling water' and sues over it?

[QBall]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Frivolous lawsuits are rather ridiculous. I mean what's next, some guy burns his nutsack making tea cuz the directions say 'soak bag in boiling water' and sues over it?