I mean seriously, let's think about this for a while, how many of you would actually put a hot cup of coffee bewtween your legs and attempt to open it up to put sugar in it?
Without ever thinking that the lid may come off in other ways than you had expected, and that the coffee could spill out and actually burn you?
I know for one i wouldn't.
The arguement for me at least isn't the fact that the coffee is/was brewed at a particular temperature which could burn someone (albeit due to their inability to use reason and common sense in the first place), but that due to a lack of common sense this even went to court.
That surely is the stand out point, certainly for me.
The "the jury would be sympathetic to an old lady's injuries", or "if a coffee can burn you because it's served hot" arguements don't lend much weight to the fact that no common sense was used by the customer to treat the product with care and in a appropriate manner and location.
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