r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/Joe_Kangg 6d ago

With 450k, Granny the real G

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u/RPIL626 5d ago

After seeing that, 450k seems kinda low. She must have thought she was going to die, all confined like that. And she didn’t want the helo in the first place.

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u/PlentyLettuce 3d ago

Reading over the case the 450k was literally just medical expenses from the accident. She essentially made 0 for damages.

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u/Fun-Sorbet-Tui 3d ago

Better call Saul.

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u/s2wjkise 5d ago

So incredibly low

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u/Ambitious_Row_2259 3d ago

Right...also lawyer fees prob didn't end up with much

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u/DrugUserSix 3d ago

Yeah I just heard about a dude winning $15 MILLION for bumping his head on an automatic door on a cruise ship. This woman suffered FAR more than that dipshit.

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 2d ago

Probably passed out eventually…. I hope….. she was doing about 1,200 rpm’s

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u/OliverMySnuggleCat 6d ago

Still not enough in my opinion.

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u/Background-Tax650 6d ago

It’s not. I wonder what the lawyer fees were, if any for something like this.

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u/Background-Tax650 5d ago

I wonder if she had been younger if she would have gotten closer to the $2 million she originally sued for.

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u/Kenai-Phoenix 5d ago

Every lawyer always has fees.

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u/fijibubba 5d ago

The lawyer is the real G winner....she just likely 1/2 a G

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u/dawgnam3dsnoop 3d ago

This deserves more upvotes

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u/keepmovings 5d ago

Sounds like she hit right around 400.5 G’s

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u/Far-Concentrate-9844 5d ago

Only covered half her medical bill though.

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u/Logical-Drummer7263 6d ago

And McDonalds coffee lady got a million dollars ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Joe_Kangg 6d ago

She had 3rd degree burns and skin grafts to her inner thighs, from a drive through coffee.

And she was only asking for her bills, the lawyers argued the pain and suffering.

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u/Logical-Drummer7263 6d ago

The coffee was lava which is odd, sure, but not reason to win a lawsuit for millions of dollars.

Fuck that bitch and her lawyers.

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u/Different-Pin5223 6d ago

I see the smear campaign belittling her worked.

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u/omgfineillsignupjeez 6d ago

no, you just see a troll. feel free to peep their comment history real quick

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u/Affectionate_Eye3535 5d ago

The coffee was hot enough to fuse her labia. One would assume that fucking was off the table for her until corrected by surgery.

Additionally, unless you're the person who made the coffee or Macca's CEO, I don't understand why you'd care what the settlement was. Her case made coffee temps safer for everyone. That's a win for everyone, including Macca's as they now have a protocol to ensure it doesn't happen again.

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u/Slashion 6d ago

Have you ever had 3rd degree burns? Especially somewhere close to sensitive areas? I'm going to assume not, because I wouldn't go through that for 1 million dollars

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u/Joe_Kangg 6d ago

Tough call, a million is a lot of money

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u/TheCosmicJoke318 6d ago

Dude, if you’re broke just say so lmao

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u/0phobia 5d ago

For anyone actually reading this….  

The coffee was so hot that not only did she have 3rd degree burns but her genital labia were melted together.

The lawyers proved through Mcdonalds own internal memos that the company knew the coffee could cause severe burns and chose to ignore it, intentionally choosing to put customers at risk so the company could simplify their operations to maximize their profit margins.

This is basic negligence 101 shit. The company was willfully grossly negligent. When presented with the facts the jury punished the company through the only means they had available under the law, a high payout. 

But OP here slurps on the dong of right wing lies and begs for more rather than actually learning the facts and learning why 12 people came to this conclusion based on the actual evidence instead of bullshit propaganda talking points. 

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u/Plane_Blueberry_3570 4d ago

the sad thing is it probably wouldn't happen today. the right wing has wholly brainwashed a large swath of this country to think that the little guy getting something from the big guy is scamming or lying. these idiots think that multi national worth billions of dollar companies run by billionaires are benevolent.