You Just Knew It Would Happen Again
Here's another reason that the legal profession has its well-earned reputation:
A Glen Cove woman has filed a $10-million claim against Starbucks, alleging she was badly burned by coffee that leaked from the container.
On the morning of May 5, Janine Arslanian bought coffee from Starbucks at 5 School Street in Glen Cove, according to court papers initially filed in October in the State Supreme Court and later moved to federal court in Central Islip. The suit says that as Arslanian received the cup, coffee "leaked and flowed from the container on the bare right hand and arm ... causing her to sustain severe burns" and suffer "permanent injury and scarring." The suit describes the injury as "extensive and gross second and third degree burns to her right hand and arm."
So order a friggin Frappucino next time. This kind of crap really makes me sick. There are just some clients that you should turn away at the door. I have this kind of argument with my partners all of the time. It's too bad that if you spill coffee on yourself at home that there's no one to sue.
File under The Legal Profession.
7:30:40 PM 
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