Slashdot Mirror
Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit
Kotaku reports the news that problems with breaking Wiimote straps has resulted in a class action lawsuit against Nintendo. From the press release about the suit: "Green Welling LLP filed a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of the owners of the Nintendo Wii against Nintendo of America, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The class action lawsuit arose as result of the defective nature of the Nintendo Wii. In particular, the Nintendo Wii game console includes a remote and a wrist strap for the remote. Owners of the Nintendo Wii reported that when they used the Nintendo remote and wrist strap, as instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console, the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand. Nintendo's failure to include a remote that is free from defects is in breach of Nintendo's own product warranty."
Yeah, and every focus group they asked preferred it to be that hot. $10 bucks says that the woman had gotten McDonalds coffee before, which means she KNEW it was scalding hot. What sort of idiot puts a scalding hot beverage in between their legs in a flimsy cup and then tries to take the damned top off? Seriously, had she died it would have been worthy of a Darwin. You either put the damn thing in a cup holder or hold it over the ground.
So please, stop using that reference. She was injured because McDonalds kept their coffee at an unsafe temperature.
s html
Complete BS. Here's one link, there's plenty of others for those who actually care about the facts, which say that coffee tastes best at precisely the temperature McDonalds used.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/DianaGendler.
You people are ridiculous.
Coffee at whatever temperature is for drinking, not for pouring in your crotch. McDonalds should never be liable for misuse of their coffee, regardless of the temperature.
You can injure yourself with any temperature of coffee by doing various things with it:
- pouring it in your crotch
- spilling it in the winter so it eventually freezes into slippery ice, then slipping and breaking your hip (Maybe it was too cold? It would have taken 2 minutes longer to freeze if it was regular McDonald's extra-hot coffee! I'm suing for $10 million!)
- loading up a syringe with it and injecting it
- pouring it in your nose so you asphyxiate (McDonald's fault because the coffee cup was too big?)
- dropping it on someone from a tall building
- or just drinking it instead of watching the road
You can make a reasonable case for this lawsuit if the woman was injured drinking the coffee. Since she injured herself misusing the coffee by spilling it on her crotch, there's no way this is McDonald's fault. They shouldn't have to pay a penny, the suit should have been thrown out, and she and her lawyers ought to have been severely sanctioned.
Seriously, I'm going to start modding down anyone who flubs up the facts of this case. The popular understanding of it is seriously flawed, and the only way to kill it is to quiet those who spread the lies, whether they know them to be lies or not.