Talk:Fight Over Baseball Statistics/@comment-11142-20060516152859

You know what&quot;s a good way to not suffer third-degree burns from coffee? DON&quot;T SPILL IT ON YOURSELF! McD&quot;s may have heated it too much (though personally, I like my coffe hot) but nobody made the woman order the coffee, nobody made her not use a cupholder, nobody made her try to drink it in the car, and nobody made her spill it. Suing someone for their coffee being hot, when you spilled it on yourself, is like suing a brickmaker for the hardness of their brick causing trauma, when you dropped it on your own head. Logically, The woman should not have gotten any money whatsoever; that she did shows the endemic problems with American civil liability laws.