Spilled Tea leaves Girl with 2nd Degree Burns

[craig 680]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/14/tim_hortons_tea_spill_leaves_woman_with_seconddegree_burns.html

Nancy Ceci stopped in at the Tim Hortons at King Rd. and Yonge St. last month to study with her boyfriend. He stood up, jostled the table and in a split second, the extra-large tea was all over her bare legs.

Now, the 22-year-old York University student, who has daily appointments at a burn clinic, can’t expose her legs to sunlight for a whole year. ...

While the infamous McDonald’s coffee burn lawsuit of the 1990s immediately springs to mind, legal experts say that even if Ceci sued Tim Hortons and won, there wouldn’t be a big payout.

There’s a cap on damages for pain and suffering in Canada, said Darcy Merkur, a Toronto tort lawyer who does personal injury work, and punitive damages against corporations have been reduced by the Supreme Court.

“Canadians are more practically minded,†Merkur said. “We don’t have wacky jury awards like the United States.â€

Ceci remembers opening the top of the hot tea and thinking it was too hot to drink right before her boyfriend knocked the table and sent it onto her lap.

“I didn’t even feel it right away. I didn’t even process what was going on,†said Ceci, who ran to the washroom but says she was stopped at the door by employees who were cleaning it.

“They’re like, ‘Oh no, you can’t come in here,’ and I’m like, ‘What do I do? My legs are burning!’ I was panicking,†she said.

She tried to blot the burns with paper towel, but her skin started coming off.

“It was the most disgusting, traumatizing thing. My skin just wiped off like it was wet paper,†she said.

Ceci says she cried her way to her car, where concerned customers came out with cups of ice before she sped off to the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket. There, she was diagnosed with second-degree burns on her upper thighs.

[Yves 1,891]

Poor her.

 

No exposure of sun for a year?

[somechick 1]

ouch. Glad I don't drink tea or coffee.

[Electric Venus 484]

damn

[lucia4 0]

I thought this was going to be an article about one celebrity shading another celebrity with that spilled tea meme going around.   How is this news worthy?

[Yanko 9,860]

i thought it was gonna be this tea   

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

Sucks for her but its not Tim Horton's fault   She will never win this case. She should blame her boyfriend.

[somechick 1]

Sucks for her but its not Tim Horton's fault   She will never win this case. She should blame her boyfriend.

Hmm but possibly the severity of the burn could have been lessened if they had let her into the toilets to use the cold water tap.

[craig 680]

I thought this was going to be an article about one celebrity shading another celebrity with that spilled tea meme going around.   How is this news worthy?

Safety issue. Millions of people have contact with scalding hot beverages every day, yet because it's such a normal thing they aren't aware of the danger.

[DogFood 1,649]

Sucks for her but its not Tim Horton's fault   She will never win this case. She should blame her boyfriend.

 

He didn't mean to bump the table. Well...He probably didn't mean to....

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

He didn't mean to bump the table. Well...He probably didn't mean to....

I'm sure he didn't but imo its not Tim Horton's fault.

Hmm but possibly the severity of the burn could have been lessened if they had let her into the toilets to use the cold water tap.

The damage was already done. It takes like 10 seconds if not less to get those burns. Like many people said in the comments of the article, water only relieves some of the pain.

 

She can go to court all she wants but all she's gonna do is spend her money and get nothing back.

[lucia4 0]

Safety issue. Millions of people have contact with scalding hot beverages every day, yet because it's such a normal thing they aren't aware of the danger.

 

How the hell is someone not aware of the fact that boiling water is damaging 

 

[Haroon 49,685]

I don't think it's Tim Horton's fault at all What people do (intentionally or not) with those hot beverages can't be blamed on them

 

It's really sad though, like a simple mistake which could happen to anyone who drinks hot drinks causes so much pain and inconvenience I hope she has a speedy recovery

[Mast 980]

 

No exposure of sun for a year?

Scar tissue becomes apparent when exposed to sunlight. Basically, it's so she doesn't scar and cause keloids. 

Hmm but possibly the severity of the burn could have been lessened if they had let her into the toilets to use the cold water tap.

Nope. Cold water wouldn't do anything, it would alleviate some of the pain briefly, but burns occur far too quickly.

[Computer 10,980]

All the people in the other thread who voted they want to move to Canada instead of USA.

Enjoy your burns and tiny jury awards :usrs: