Moron Alert: Passenger sues Southwest Airlines for $800,000 over hot tea spill
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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/travel/soutwest-hot-tea-spill/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10[/url]
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A Tennessee woman sued Southwest Airlines and a flight attendant Tuesday for $800,000 for serving tea she says severely burned her.
On December 28, 2011, Angelica Keller was seated in the window seat of the front row on Flight 955 between Nashville and Houston with a stop in New Orleans.
She ordered hot tea, and the suit says the flight attendant brought her a cup of "extremely hot water" sitting in another cup which contained the tea bag and condiment packets.
In the "plaintiffs efforts to extricate the tea bag from its position of being wedged between the tilted paper 'hot cup' of extremely hot water and the shorter clear plastic soft drink cup, the extremely hot water spilled into her lap at her groin area," the suit said.
Keller's body suffered second degree burns and her skin blistered, peeled and she was permanently scarred, the lawyers said.
"Our Customers' comfort is our top priority at all times, and we safely serve about 100 million drinks onboard every year," Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said in a statement. "The referenced event is unfortunate, and we are currently reviewing it. We can't provide additional details due to the pending lawsuit that was filed."
Southwest does not have tray tables in the front rows of its aircraft, and Keller's suit said that contributed to the accident.
It also said the airline served the drink in an unreasonable manner and used "hot water at a temperature too hot for use in an aircraft."
Mainz was unable to provide the standard temperature of the water on Southwest flights, but said it has never been an issue in the past.
The suit, filed Tuesday, seeks $300,000 for property damages, medical bills, injuries and pain and suffering as well as $500,000 in punitive damages.
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Some people are just dumb as a bucket of rocks.
Not necessarily dumb, If I was told I had a reasonable chance of getting 800 000 dollars for suing over something like that I would definetly take that chance
Sucks, but hey everyone gets the short end of the stick once in a while.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820115]Not necessarily dumb, If I was told I had a reasonable chance of getting 800 000 dollars for suing over something like that I would definetly take that chance[/QUOTE]
Why? Sue someone because you spilled something on yourself? You're a dumbass. The airline did nothing wrong.
This is the problem with society today, no one wants to work for money. They all want to sue for it.
[QUOTE=faze;37820168]Why? Sue someone because you spilled something on yourself? You're a dumbass. The airline did nothing wrong.
This is the problem with society today, no one wants to work for money. They all want to sue for it.[/QUOTE]
Man I have no problem working for money either, and I also have no problem with trying to get an obscene amount of money legally. Why wouldn't you?
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820188]Man I have no problem working for money either, and I also have no problem with trying to get an obscene amount of money legally. Why wouldn't you?[/QUOTE]
You spill [I]200 degree water on yourself[/I] and sue a company that had nothing to do with it... This is morally fucked up. You're stupid for wanting to do this.
I'm not sure if I'm reading this wrong BUT, was there a cup in a cup and the teabag was in the bottom cup and the woman tried to remove the teabag without removing the top cup?
Not gonna go through at all. She spilled it over herself, they should sue her for wasting their time.
[QUOTE=faze;37820210]You spill [I]200 degree water on yourself[/I] and sue a company that had nothing to do with it... This is morally fucked up. You're stupid for wanting to do this.[/QUOTE]
Are you calling me stupid for wanting to attempt to get heaps of money if I was told I had a reasonable chance? It may be morally wrong to you but I would be haunted forever and feel bad for passing on that opportunity to get 800 grand so easily.
Is this gonna be like the mcdonald's coffee story where the burns actually were an issue, and the wasn't sue-er was just a litigious moron?
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820231]Are you calling me stupid for wanting to attempt to get heaps of money if I was told I had a reasonable chance? It may be morally wrong to you but I would be haunted forever and feel bad for passing on that opportunity to get 800 grand so easily.[/QUOTE]
I like to earn money honestly, not by being a chump.
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[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;37820237]Is this gonna be like the mcdonald's coffee story where the burns actually were an issue, and the sue-er was just a litigious moron?[/QUOTE]
Call me rude, but it was her own damn fault for spilling the coffee. Unless you're getting iced coffee, it's pretty much common knowledge that fresh coffee is hot as fuck. Just because it didn't have "Caution hot" on the cup doesn't make it McDonalds' fault. Did she not have feeling in her hands or something?
[QUOTE=jiggu;37820227]Not gonna go through at all. She spilled it over herself, they should sue her for wasting their time.[/QUOTE]
Hey, it would have worked for Kramer if he hadn't put the damn balm on!
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I like to earn money in anyway that I wouldn't feel bad about it
I just don't think its a dumb thing to do if the chances seemed good
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820231]Are you calling me stupid for wanting to attempt to get heaps of money if I was told I had a reasonable chance? It may be morally wrong to you but I would be haunted forever and feel bad for passing on that opportunity to get 800 grand so easily.[/QUOTE]
Yes, he's calling you stupid since you really are if you want to abuse the law and potentially destabilize a company to the point where innocent people working in it lose their jobs, just since you want money to spend on weed or whatever.
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Wait, was it superheated water? That shit can really fuck you up.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820188]Man I have no problem working for money either, and I also have no problem with trying to get an obscene amount of money legally. Why wouldn't you?[/QUOTE]
because only a crazy person would do it unless they had a real reason for it. Like an actual injury, that THEY are liable for.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820231]Are you calling me stupid for wanting to attempt to get heaps of money if I was told I had a reasonable chance? It may be morally wrong to you but I would be haunted forever and feel bad for passing on that opportunity to get 800 grand so easily.[/QUOTE]
He's calling you stupid because you can/should only really sue if it's truely their fault for a real injury. You know, actual issues caused by them. Not your own clumsiness and a little bitty mistake.
Something tells me you would purposely slip on a wet floor with no sign before anyone gets the chance to get to it, just to sue the shit out of them.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;37820282]Yes, he's calling you stupid since you really are if you want to abuse the law and potentially destabilize a company to the point where innocent people working in it lose their jobs, just since you want money to spend on weed or whatever.[/QUOTE]
well technically its still not being stupid in your eyes just morally wrong.
[QUOTE=J!NX;37820300]because only a crazy person would do it unless they had a real reason for it. Like an actual injury, that THEY are liable for.
He's calling you stupid because you can only really be sued if it's truely their fault for a real injury. You know, actual issues caused by them. Not your own clumsiness and a little bitty mistake.[/QUOTE]
If you had good lawyers who said that there was a reasonable chance of winning that would not be stupid though right?
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37820298]Wait, was it superheated water? That shit can really fuck you up.[/QUOTE]
It seems it was double cupped and had no time to cool down, my friend had a cup of tea from a Mcdonalds spill on her legs and she spent a few days in hospital with severe burns. She knew it was her fault so she didnt both suing anyone.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820302]well technically its still not being stupid in your eyes just morally wrong.[/QUOTE]
You'd be taking funds from a company that had nothing to do with your fuck up. Get a job and earn money like the rest of the world. If you want easy money, play the lottery or gamble.
[QUOTE=faze;37820330]You'd be taking funds from a company that had nothing to do with your fuck up. Get a job and earn money like the rest of the world. If you want easy money, play the lottery or gamble.[/QUOTE]
I do have a job? Why earn money like the rest of the world when obviously most of the world hardly gets any money in that manner and you have a chance to get money easily?
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820324]If you had good lawyers who said that there was a reasonable chance of winning that would not be stupid though right?[/QUOTE]
your right
it'd be completely asinine and criminal, a total exploitation of a system just for your own good, because you're too lazy to get money yourself, hurting people who have real issues caused by work/other people., over a slight inconvenient.
You wouldn't have to be an idiot, just a complete dick to sue over a minor thing.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820346]I do have a job? Why earn money like the rest of the world when obviously most of the world hardly gets any money in that manner and you have a chance to get money easily?[/QUOTE]
ok so "it's ok to be an greedy and exploit the system if it benefits me"
and I'm not calling you an asshole, you just have an opinion, I just am saying that "Some that actually sues because of silly shit is being a total dick"
Reminds me of that McDonalds case. The media gave the impression that the victim was an asshole that wanted money. But then it turned out McDonalds had a policy to make coffee/tea as hot as possible just to stop customers from getting more. And the victim only wanted 23k USD but got 2.3 million instead. Also the burns were fucking horrible.
[QUOTE=J!NX;37820347]your right
it'd be completely asinine and criminal, a total exploitation of a system just for your own good, because you're too lazy to get money yourself, hurting people who have real issues caused by work/other people., over a slight inconvenient.
You wouldn't have to be an idiot, just a complete dick to sue over a minor thing.[/QUOTE]
So me saying it wasn't necessarily dumb was correct then
[quote]Keller's body suffered second degree burns and her skin blistered, peeled and she was permanently scarred, the lawyers said.[/quote]
That's it. There's nothing else to say but she's justified in her sueing.
She's been permanently scarred, and has second degree burns. It's all very well saying that she should have expected it to be hot, or that it wasn't the airline's fault, but the shit got spilled, and she's now permanently scarred.
You sue because accidents cause you injury or otherwise entitle you compensation, this is exactly what happened here. Shit, if you didn't sue for having second degree burns, you're either forgiving on the level of Jesus, or a total fuckin' moron.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820346]I do have a job? Why earn money like the rest of the world when obviously most of the world hardly gets any money in that manner and you have a chance to get money easily?[/QUOTE]
I make $90k a year doing honest work. I'm doing well. I don't need schemes to make money.
[QUOTE=J!NX;37820347]y
ok so "it's ok to be an greedy and exploit the system if it benefits me"[/QUOTE]
I think yes, you think no, there's no point in arguing
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37820378]I think yes, you think no, there's no point in arguing[/QUOTE]
So you're for exploiting the system? Pretty fucked up dude, in the context of this thread.
[QUOTE=Butthurter;37820394]youre still missing the point
the argument is whether or not the act is stupid
its not, its just plain selfish and downright evil from a moral standpoint
it can however be stupid if the guy suing the fuck out of everyone truly has no idea just how sick this whole idea is[/QUOTE]
I never missed that point.
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