Common Sense...Older guys will remember this

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Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

MacDonalds' committed suicide by lawyer on this one. The 'victim' crushed a large cup of coffee between her thighs when her car braked suddenly. The company lawyer, instead of simply keeping the fact before the jury that she had done it to herself, went on to say her injuries were greatly exaggerated, possibly even falsified. The scarring was real, extensive and very picturesque. When a lawyer makes one provably false statement to the jury, common sense wonders about everything else he has said.

I have wondered if the legal firm thought this one was such a slam-dunk that they sent the senior partner's idiot son.