Three million for hot coffee... Remember that famous lawsuit, in which a woman won a $3 million judgment against McDonald's for their overly hot coffee? Most likely, just about everything you thought you knew about that case was wrong.
That case happened back in the early '90s, in the days when we were all completely dependent on mainstream media for our news. It's a great example of the distortions produced by their quest for a sensational story. I remember reading about this case in the Wall Street Journal, and even there I don't recall seeing the details in the article above. Doing a little searching on the web today, I found multiple sources for the same information in the article I linked, dating back to 2009 when HBO started making a movie about the case.
I like our new world much better – without the mainstream media deciding which news I'm going to hear...
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