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People don't seem to know the details of that case, admittedly I didn't either till I did some research. It turns out the woman got third degree burns from spilling the coffee on herself. Third degree! The deepest kind of burn. I've had boiling crab bisque splash up on my wrist and it barely left a mark after a week, and that still hurt like hell. I can't imagine what a third degree burn is like, but coffee should never be hot enough to cause a burn like that.
It's true. People love to repeat the "simple version" of things because it makes light of a problem and points to individual stupidity, which in turn makes everyone else feel superior.
Cell phone texting is viewed differently because there is developing a clear record of it contributing to car wrecks vs hot women contributing to them.
I remember back in the early 90's there was woman in Florida who wanted to start a hot dog stand while wearing a g-string bikini. She was wearing the bikini as an attention grabber for her business. As far as I know no wrecks were caused by her distracting drivers but if some had happened I'd bet those on the recieving end of those wrecks would have looked into the possibility of sueing her.
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I wonder how we all survived mcdonalds coffee all those years until the old bag spilled some on her?? LOL
According to the wiki link there had been several complaints of burns from McDonald's coffee. Guess nobody bothered taking it to court till the old lady ended up needing skin grafting because of it.
I wonder how we all survived mcdonalds coffee all those years until the old bag spilled some on her?? LOL
Even after being schooled you act like the bully. I wonder what you get from it.
If this woman had been handed the coffee and turned around and bumped into a child, spilling it on their head, this would be a different convo. There wouldn't be the LOL factor of her putting it between her legs, which most people never get past.
Would you be more or less pissed than if they were changing the station on the radio? Or more or less pissed if they were talking to the person in their passenger seat? Or more or less pissed if they were just really bad drivers?
Why would the reason behind their bad driving make a difference in how you felt about the accident?
In 2010, I bought my very first NEW car. I was 58 years old at the time; always had used beat-up cars and I was finally able to buy a new car!
I had about one thousand miles on the car when a woman pulled out in front of me from a stop sign and totalled my car. She just couldn't be bothered to wipe the condensation from her driver's side window. She couldn't see out of it; didn't even bother to lower the window to see if any traffic was on the road. Was I pissed? You bet! That was DUMB of her. Doing something STUPID that causes an accident was the basis for my anger.
Texting while driving is dumb and stupid. Driving while not being able to see out the windows is dumb and stupid.
You show me statistics on how many accidents are caused by people changing a radio station in their car, or by the driver talking with a passenger...
In 2010, I bought my very first NEW car. I was 58 years old at the time; always had used beat-up cars and I was finally able to buy a new car!
I had about one thousand miles on the car when a woman pulled out in front of me from a stop sign and totalled my car. She just couldn't be bothered to wipe the condensation from her driver's side window. She couldn't see out of it; didn't even bother to lower the window to see if any traffic was on the road. Was I pissed? You bet! That was DUMB of her. Doing something STUPID that causes an accident was the basis for my anger.
Texting while driving is dumb and stupid. Driving while not being able to see out the windows is dumb and stupid.
You show me statistics on how many accidents are caused by people changing a radio station in their car, or by the driver talking with a passenger...
None of this has anything to do with the girl who sent the text though.
It's like saying since I wrote you a letter last year and you decided to read it while driving yesterday it's my fault you hit that tree.
Cell phone texting is viewed differently because there is developing a clear record of it contributing to car wrecks vs hot women contributing to them.
I remember back in the early 90's there was woman in Florida who wanted to start a hot dog stand while wearing a g-string bikini. She was wearing the bikini as an attention grabber for her business. As far as I know no wrecks were caused by her distracting drivers but if some had happened I'd bet those on the recieving end of those wrecks would have looked into the possibility of sueing her.
Ah yes big brother looking out for us little guys...........
"The NHTSA survey was conducted by telephone. Many respondents were contacted on their cell phones. One can only hope they weren't also driving."
I don't know how they arrive at their 2092 number. According to the survey 6% of respondents said they were in a crash and 1% of those say they were texting. That leaves a helluva lot of other causes. Like these from the report...........
If you look at the survey they would do better to ban radio's, talking in the car, children and portable music players in cars before cell phones. But they aren't the boogeyman created to make folks think the government cares about em.
In 2010, I bought my very first NEW car. I was 58 years old at the time; always had used beat-up cars and I was finally able to buy a new car!
I had about one thousand miles on the car when a woman pulled out in front of me from a stop sign and totalled my car. She just couldn't be bothered to wipe the condensation from her driver's side window. She couldn't see out of it; didn't even bother to lower the window to see if any traffic was on the road. Was I pissed? You bet! That was DUMB of her. Doing something STUPID that causes an accident was the basis for my anger.
Texting while driving is dumb and stupid. Driving while not being able to see out the windows is dumb and stupid.
You show me statistics on how many accidents are caused by people changing a radio station in their car, or by the driver talking with a passenger...
Scroll down to the bottom of the page in the link motion put up a few posts earlier and they have the NHTSA survey and it shows that changing the radiio and talking in the car or dealing with kids are more "distracting" than phones. Better ban all that and eating too so the roads are safe. Fact is you take a chance every time you get behind the wheel. You don't want to take that chance then walk. Legislating nonsense won't help. Hell it's against the friggen law to drive drunk and folks do it all the time. This will just open the door up for more fines and nonsense to shake down the public to fund more crap for big bro.
None of this has anything to do with the girl who sent the text though.
It's like saying since I wrote you a letter last year and you decided to read it while driving yesterday it's my fault you hit that tree.
I totally agree. The girl who sent the text has no liability, in my opinion.
If you read my previous posts, you will see that I agree with you.
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