Fox News featuring infamous coffee-spiller and suer Stella Liebeck

Ever wonder what Stella Liebeck had to say about the coffee spill that led to her infamous lawsuit against McDonalds? This FOX News report on the Wacky Warning Label Contest now sponsored by the Foundation For Fair Civil Justice (FFCJ) features footage of Stella. FFCJ senior fellow, Bob Dorigo Jones, creator of the contest, explains how frivolous lawsuits like Liebeck's have led to an abundance of wacky warnings in America.

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[DeReCk120]

actually stella liebeck offered mcdonalds to pay a simply $20,000 to pay for her medical bills but after mcdonalds refusing and offering only $800 she decided to sue mcdonalds. Afterwards she re offered mcdonalds at least $300,000 in compesation. but once again mcdonalds refused and offered her $90,000. She refused it and continue the case and then she won the case and got 2.7 million. Way to go mcdonalds.

[AsTimeDilates]

There's nothing frivolous about the idea that coffee should not be served at 190 degrees (making it completely undrinkable without causing serious damage). I like how they leave out the fact that she originally only wanted $20k to cover her medical bills and the fact that the award was reduced to just $640k.

[MrMatto91]

@zaydlatif yeah because all Americans are too stupid to know that if a cup of coffee is hot it will cause burns if spilled. You fucking dipshit.

[MrMatto91]

I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say I'm stupid. That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind" "I didn't see your sign." That's why they have warning labels. They are not for us. They are for stupid people.

-Bill Engvall.

[stealspell]

Never blow dry a monkey

[sweetriverbanks1]

FoxNews and its steady viewers are so stupid. How could you not understand DEGREES. It is intellectual dishonesty at its finest. Its like saying in order to take a hot shower, you turn the knob on HOT and jump in. Everyone understands except them, their stupid viewers and those who are a victim of misinformation.

I dont understand deliberately being on the wrong side of an issue.

[haymaker710]

@Fiftiesflashback McDonalds served coffee at 187 degrees, that's hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns, in a flimsy cup that already burned 700 people before. You'll be happy to know she got third degree burns over 16% of her body, spent 8 days in the hospital, and needed multiple skin grafts. Two years of follow up treatments followed.

[KurbyDurby]

Water or coffee boils at 212 degrees, McD's text book rule is to keep the "free refill" coffee hot at 187 degrees (this probably reduces the number of refills). At this temperature water or coffee can cause third degree burns. The 91 year old woman was wearing three layers of clothing. The coffee spilled on to her lap when putting in cream & sugar, the 187 degree coffee soaked into her clothing continually burning her genitals, thighs & legs up to 16% of her body. She never got the 2.7 million.

[stephenblackman2003a]

They never show you any pictures of her third degree burns or tell you that macdonalds served their coffee unusually hot to hike profits or that big corporations put a lot of money into campaigns to hijack the hot coffee case to keep the poor from being compensated for harms caused by the powerful. Why? Media are corporations too; they get their money mostly from other big corporations' adverts. Truth is bad for business! (Watch the movie 'hot coffee' on novamov website).

[USAon3]

Leave it to foolkmess to leave out the part about this not being a story about the McDonald's incident, but about superfluous and silly warning labels. If this had been a story particularly about Liebeck, it would have included all the details he's whining about.

Anyone with the IQ of a hubcap knows that coffee is hot and that you shouldn't open a cup in a car.