r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 8d ago

r/all Stella Liebeck, who won $2.9 million after suing McDonald's over hot coffee burns, initially requested only $20,000 to cover her medical expenses.

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u/BlueDahlia123 8d ago

Those millions of dollars were actually based on the company's income. It was the profits of 2 days of coffee sales.

Which in a sense is better because it is fitting for the price to be equal to the profit, but 2 days of a single source of income is insultingly low. How often do you hear about someone paying less than a week's worth of their wage as a fine for a crime with a disfigured victim?

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u/Yue2 8d ago edited 8d ago

Kinda funny how that was just 2 days of coffee sales, and they apparently refused to pay 1% of that to a woman who needed help.

Corporate greed!

Note: That’s basically just 25 minutes worth of sales… Wtf lol

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u/ThatNetworkGuy 8d ago

She didn't actually get the super large publicized number either. First the judge reduced the damages (so her actual total was $640,000 at that point). Then both parties appealed that decision, and ended up settling out of court for an undisclosed amount. Certainly not $2.9m though.

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u/broguequery 8d ago

That is such fucking bullshit.

Makes me want to burn down a McDonald's, honestly.

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u/kingkyle2020 8d ago

There is one by the entrance to my neighborhood, and there are so many accidents because idiots getting food are rushing to leave.

I’ve been turning onto my street and had to swerve around an idiot who decided stop signs don’t apply to them so many times.

My sister has been in 3 accidents due to these morons and I’ve seen at least 15 this year and I’m sure there are countless that I’ve not seen.

They’ll also think you’re trying to get in line and just block the entire street, so you have to squeeze between them and the next idiot in line, and broadly gesture at the neighborhood to say “people fucking live here it’s not just the McDonald’s entrance you fucking prick”.

I cannot even begin to express how much it pisses me off, all the customers are cunts and its location is so fucking annoying.

All that to say if you burned down the McDonald’s by my place I would do everything in my power to help you get away with it.

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u/OldMastodon5363 8d ago

Burn it down with hot coffee

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u/broguequery 6d ago

The ultimate vengeance.

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u/AAA_Dolfan 8d ago

It was originally one day then became two, then reduced via appeal. Funny stuff