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She allowed a 3 year old to play with power tools, and blames the manufacturer?
This is basically like letting a child play with a drill.
Or let the child drink soap.
The store or manufacturer is hardly to blame, but western world (USA especially) does have a history of legal battles over things like "there was no warning the fresh pizza would be hot" etc.
This is basically propaganda from the 90's created by McDonald's to fostet a sense that people are filing tons of frivolous lawsuits. When an elderly woman received THIRD DEGREE BURNS to her pelvis from coffee. Basically, Mcdonalds kept their coffee at 180 degrees because it was fresh longer or something that ultimately made them more money. They refused to settle for only medical costs, so Stella Liebeck's lawyer went for blood in the millions.. McDonald's hired a PR firm that basically specialized in this kind of thing, and the lie of frivolous lawsuits has persisted ever since.
Yeah. Also, this was not the first lawsuit, they had already been ordered to lower their coffee temp and decided to treat the lawsuits as a cost of business. The legal system is often mocked for overly small findings against big business, but in this case McDonald’s was taking the piss a little too blatantly. McDonald’s unsurprisingly did reduce their coffee temps after that, because the damages were finally appropriate to achieve their goal.
Such 'incidients' have been occuring frequently with products from Temu, Shein, and the like. I am wondering why something like that never happens with products bought, say, at local shops or other points of sale where strict product safety laws apply?
It probably does, it just doesn't get national media coverage because it doesn't make good yellow peril clickbait.
No, that's not true.
Maybe it’s also the type of people that buy shit off Temu. Strict safety laws don’t protect stupid people from doing stupid things.
It never happens or you never hear about it?