Raleigh officer, wife asking for $50K in hot coffee case

WRAL ^ | May 4, 2015

[ConservativeStatement]

Raleigh, N.C. — Attorneys for a Raleigh police officer began making the case Monday that he should be compensated the burns, blisters and emotional damage he suffered when a hot cup of coffee spilled on his lap in January 2012.

In the morning, a judge heard motions from representatives of Matthew Kohr, a lieutenant with Raleigh police's special operations division, and Starbucks.

[rlmorel]

Agreed.

On a humorous side, a woman I knew told me she purchased a strawberry milkshake, and placed it between her legs to pull out on the road.

As she pulled out, she was T-Boned by a car she didn’t see that hit her smack on her driver side door.

She wasn’t hurt, but she said that strawberry milkshake covered every square inch of her and the inside of the car, because her legs came together on impact and forcibly ejected the contents of the large cup straight upwards!

Imagine that with scalding coffee...

[Darksheare]

How about the fact that you were the only one who had issue with anything said?

Also, newsflash, coffee is hot.
Also, supposed incident happened in January 2012.
It is now 2015.
What’s the real motivation for the lawsuit?

[rlmorel]

I surely am not not sticking up for someone filing this lawsuit.

One of the great things about Free Republic beyond the freedom of speech we (mostly) get to exercise, is the fact that we don’t all have to view an issue the same way, unless someone is so ingrained in groupthink that they cannot think for themselves and that is their only way of thinking. But, if that is what they like, they can do that, and we see plenty of it.

It means I can read a thread with multiple posters, who may post things I disagree with or find offensive, but it doesn’t mean I have to begin insulting them. That is a liberal trait. I can disagree with them, but why make it personal?

So, what about the “fact” that I found it shallow and parochial that the first viewpoint put forth by someone on a thread was that it must have been someone who came from somewhere else? I have been around long enough and traveled enough to see that dipstick gold-diggers who sue are everywhere, as is undesirable behavior.

Even in North Carolina. Or, is saying that disallowed or disrespectful on FR?

Do you disagree? Is there no fraud in NC? No murders? No stupidity?

I fail to see how someone can get so completely bent out of shape and engage in ad hominem attacks over a fairly mild “transgression” of pointing that out.