I was bored...

[amanichen]

-Removed-

[tvrfreak]

Pour coffee on crotch?! Bit bizarre, but I suppose that would stop someone from taking pictures!

Also, your captions block out most of the car, which is the nicest part of the picture...

[amanichen]

-Removed-

[tvrfreak]

amanichen,
I don't want to make an issue of it, but the McDonald's coffee case is often misquoted. It is not an example of justice denied, or even of frivolous lawsuits. Here are the salient facts:

Coffee was served by McDonalds at a temperature significantly higher than other restaurants' coffee, a temperature that caused 2nd degree burns or worse, and in a manner that was unsafe (the top was not put on securely).

The victim suffered excruciating pain and had to undergo months of hospitalization, plastic surgery, therapy, rehab, etc.

The plaintiffs originally asked McDonalds only for medical expenses. McDonalds declined to reimburse them. It then converted to a lawsuit--the jury decided the amount of the damages, and the vast majority of the $2.9 million was a punitive judgment against McDonalds, not a compensatory judgment for the plaintiff.

When the jury heard the case, and about all the other cases of serious burns that had been hushed up by McDonalds, they came back with a verdict stiff enough to punish McDonalds and to redress the wrongs as laid forth in the lawsuit. $2.9 million is not even a drop in the bucket for McDonalds, so I don't know that it served as a "lesson" but McDonalds has certainly lowered the temperature of its coffee, and most other chains have followed suit. Which is a good thing.

[amanichen]

Originally Posted by tvrfreak

amanichen,
I don't want to make an issue of it,

Unfortunately you just did.

I simply posted a link which described the incident in the case that you were not familiar with it. People from many countries visit this forum.

It was not, and is not, my intent to analyze the incident or pass judgement any of those involved. Since I obviously failed in that respect: the picture is gone and I will say nothing more on this matter.

[TcarR]

And let that be a lesson to you: next time your bored, go play on a playstation, or watch the TV. It's much safer than getting pulled to pieces over a simple (but not very good) joke.

[tvrfreak]

Oof, sorry about that. There's a million examples of justice gone wrong but this is not one of them--that's all I wanted to say. It ended up being a long(ish) post simply because of the background info, not because I wanted to carry on with my opinions on it.

I honestly didn't mean to be a wet blanket...you didn't have to remove the pic! In fact, let's start a new caption contest thread for McLaren F1s.

[McLaren Mike]

Not to be rude, but this is an F1 forum, are all these threads necessary?

-Mike