Posted on 06/24/2016 7:01:12 AM PDT by simpson96
DALLAS — Fire officials say more than 30 people attending a Tony Robbins event in Dallas have been treated for burns after the motivational speaker encouraged them to walk on hot coals.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says five people were taken to a hospital Thursday night and that emergency personnel treated the others at the scene for burns to their feet and lower extremities.
The hot coals were spread outside the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center as part of a Robbins seminar called "Unleash the Power Within." The event continues through Sunday.
Representatives for Robbins didn't immediately return messages Friday.
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Remember, damage from heat requires direct contact and sufficient quantity of hot materials. A properly conducted firewalk is on long-burned coals with an ash layer, which insulates the actually hot part of the coal from the skin when you walk on it.
Detailed explanation: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-arts/firewalking.htm
1st person gets burned shame on the event organizers. 2nd- 30th, wtf is wrong with people?
They probably used river rock, or another equally dense rock materiel that holds/transfers heat better than lighter volcanic rock.
See, this is where I have a problem. She's the one who took it upon herself to remove the lid from the coffee, while sitting in a low-slung car's bucket seats. She was a passenger in her son's or grandson's car.
She pulled the lid off toward herself, and spilled the contents herself.
Simply put, she wouldn't have been burned had she not done what she did.
Coffee is hot. Hundreds of people daily bought the same coffee from that same restaurant without incident.
Hers wasn't some one-off brew of liquid hot lava.
It was her actions that put the hot coffee in her lap.
Yes, McD's could have had a PR win with that, but a fiscal lose. Every two-bit loser with a pay-day in mind would be doing the same and filing suit.
McD’s 190 degree temp was known by them to be a burn risk.
“What idiot walks on hot coals?”
Apparently people who paid a small fortune for the privilege!
Did anyone bring tartar sauce?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
pre-trial
Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald’s for $20,000 to cover her actual and anticipated expenses. Her past medical expenses were $10,500; her anticipated future medical expenses were approximately $2,500; and her daughter’s loss of income was approximately $5,000 for a total of approximately $18,000.
Instead, the company offered only $800. When McDonald’s refused to raise its offer, Liebeck retained Texas attorney Reed Morgan. Morgan filed suit in New Mexico District Court accusing McDonald’s of “gross negligence” for selling coffee that was “unreasonably dangerous” and “defectively manufactured”. McDonald’s refused Morgan’s offer to settle for $90,000. Morgan offered to settle for $300,000, and a mediator suggested $225,000 just before trial, but McDonald’s refused these final pre-trial attempts to settle.
And they call the “snake handlers” religion crazy...
That’s probably very true. Your cynicism warms my heart, lol!
Folks have been getting burned by Tony Robbins for years. This isn’t new.
Anything over 130 degrees is a burn risk. Coffee is brewed at 195 to 205 degrees, according to the National Coffee Association. Had she dropped 180-degree coffee in her lap, the same would have occurred.
He has been around since the late 80s. I got his tapes back then as a gift and listened to them all. They were mainly logical motivational tapes with some good ideas. Basically how to stay focused on a goal how to deal with failure (like when you failed did you learn something? If so then you didn't really fail you just learned that that approach to the problem was the wrong one. stuff like that.)
BTW he was doing the firewalk back then also at his seminars. I never went to one but the tapes were not bad. He is very big on getting knowledge that helps you achieve the goals you set for yourself. I use lots of stuff I picked up in his tapes to this day. I went to build a home recording studio and researched it for over a year before I hammered the first nail. Same with gardening. I constantly read and research how to grow stuff in containers, and use the philosophy he teaches which is basically a self teaching course using the Socratic method to improve on what I do.
If I was to sum up his beliefs it is to be a "life learner". Learn something new every day and then use that knowledge to better yourself and those around you.
If the coals are prepared properly and the pit is the proper size, it is safe to walk on them. I have done so.
Somehow though, I am envisioning a line of people streaming across the coals together and one in front hesitates...
I’ve never understood the point of it. There are plenty of opportunities to exercise and prove the value of faith in one’s life. This seems wasteful and egotistical.
-JT
Um, you do realize NOTHING in what you just posted contradicts anything I wrote, right?? It actually supports what I said about $20,000 being her SETTLEMENT offer, not what she initially sued for - which is what you incorrectly noted in one of your posts.
Actually, you probably don’t realize, but so be it.
Don’t bother responding, because I’m not reading it.
Idiots.
Stupid SHOULD hurt.
Mayhaps Tony should have started these folks off easily - perhaps by making them walk barefoot across a loose sandy beach at around 1:00 in the afternoon.
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