Is this crazy or what

[Mike Abberton]

From what I have heard of some of these cases, money was awarded most often when some regulation or local ordinance was broken, even if it was only a technicality (sort of like the fire truck example above).

For example, I heard that there was actually a local ordinance in the McDonald's hot coffee case that gave a maximum temperature for hot beverages to be served, and the coffee was measured at the McDonalds in question to be well over the allowed limit. That is what opened the door for monetary rewards.