re: Guy orders buffalo wings and gets mad they're spicy at Burger King

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Expect a lawsuit. Just like the person who sued McD because the coffee was hot.

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Just as a sidebar...this story was greatly sensationalized by the media. As usual, they picked up the story after it was in full scale meltdown and chose to leave out certain facts that would reduce the fever pitch it built up.

Here is what was left out (as a sidenote, I am generally VERY conservative and very much in favor of tort reform): after she burned herself, she went inside (in obvious pain) and complained to a manager that the lid was not securely fastened by the employee who handed her said coffee. She also insinuated that it didn't need to be that hot. Manager blew her off and halfway apologized offering to refund her money. She left and went to the doctor. Came back weeks later with a very small medical invoice asking for it to be paid. Manager sent it up to corporate. Corporate sent the lady a legal letter that essentially told her to go get fckd (in nice, legalese). She took this letter and her medical bill to a lawyer. Lawyer went back to McD's corporate and threatened a lawsuit if the medical invoice was not paid. Again, McDonald's corporate told them both to kindly go fck themselves. Then the lawyer said, "It's go time". And THAT is when they filed the huge lawsuit.

Again, I am very conservative about things like this, but I wanted to make a point that the stories we read in a newspaper or on internet sites are generally about 25% truth and facts. Not that they are full of mistruths all of the time...but facts are omitted in order to keep the story salacious.