# Another McDonald's coffee suit plus mom.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951 "2001-04-14T14:11:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951/1 "2001-04-14T14:11:12Z")

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First the old lady with coffee… then the pickle… now this.

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> MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (January 9, 2001)- An Illinois woman is suing a McDonald’s owner, Wal-Mart, a cup maker and her own mother over spilled coffee she says was too hot.
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> Teresa Reed claims in the lawsuit against Short Enterprises, owner of the Murphysboro McDonald’s, that a cup of coffee she bought at the drive-through window spilled and scalded her ankle, allegedly leaving a permanent scar.
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> Reed said the coffee, was “served at a temperature too hot for consumption and hot enough to scald the human body,” spilled and burned her after she placed it in a cup holder in her mother’s car.
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> The suit seeks $450,000 from Short Enterprises, as well as from cup maker Cobb Manufacturing and Wal-Mart, the manufacturer of the cup holder.
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> The suit also accuses Reed’s mother of negligence, saying Carol Sanders “owed a duty of care for the safety of others riding in her vehicle.”

She had borrowed her mother’s car, and she thinks that her mother should have gotten a better cup holder at Walmart.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2001, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951/2 "2001-04-14T14:16:51Z")

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Dang, could you repost this in the pit, PLEASE?

There’s a level of hell espically for sorry… Morons… like that. And people wonder why we make fun of the legal profession?

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951/3 "2001-04-14T14:19:16Z")

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Please, for the love of Our Father, have the judge toss this one out.

Suing her mother for not buying a better cup holder? For her car? Chick needs a life.

Sheesh.

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**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mcdonalds-coffee-suit-plus-mom/61951/4 "2001-04-14T14:44:37Z")

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Saint Zero, reposted to the Pit as requested. Have it it, my man 😃