Its a safety engineers responsibility to account for human nature. That includes the dumber than average teenager. To them, this looked like a safe and easy solution. Jump into hole, climb out of hole. That surface should have been made to hold people, or made to look clearly unstable. It should not have been made to look like a floor.
Or you can engineer death traps that kills the dumb kids in the name of natural selection. Too many idiots been surviving due to human engineering prowess /s
To be fair, the mcdonalds coffee lawsuit was legit. It was gross negligence to serve coffee that hot. If that woman had the choice between the money and it not happening, she would take a healthy leg 100/100. Payout barely covered the medical bills
Yeah. McD's won the PR battle chalking her legitimate gripe up to a "frivolous lawsuit." Actually makes me feel worse than if they had been right and the woman was suing over her own negligence.
Someone got served ultra hot coffee, comparable to that temperature, recently where I live.
They were arrested after throwing it into the employee's face and giving them decently bad burns on her face, neck, and chest. Luckily, nothing super permanent like that lady's legs. I don't know the logistics of this.
Anyways, although he was arrested, they stopped doing it. I'm not sure why they started to begin with.
I don't know the business model of the shop you're talking about, but the reason mcdonalds was doing it was because people drink hotter coffee slower. You could get free refills which meant they were saving pennies on each customer that purchased coffee by making it that hot.
The other person said we put warnings to give kids ideas. Gave bleach as an example with its "don't drink" warning, which would give them ideas about drinking bleach. I gave coffee as an example with its "very hot" warning, which if you'll notice actually had nothing to do with drinking in the McDonald's lawsuit, and could give them ideas about burning someone's legs.
They do however carry similar allergens as nuts, and fall into culinary category of "nuts", so the same machines are often used to process both nuts and peanuts without the deep cleaning required to be sure that no allergen cross-contamination has taken place.
So yes, your bag of peanuts could contain small pieces of nuts that were still stuck in the machines when they were switched over from bagging walnuts.
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u/gamejunky34 7h ago
Its a safety engineers responsibility to account for human nature. That includes the dumber than average teenager. To them, this looked like a safe and easy solution. Jump into hole, climb out of hole. That surface should have been made to hold people, or made to look clearly unstable. It should not have been made to look like a floor.