Some people are just really that unhappy

People are just weird, I've found in life lol. I had one friend come into my apartment to visit me one time, and she exclaimed that my perfume shouldn't be in the loungeroom. That it should be in the bedroom, well for one, my home, my rules -and two, it's my collection, the bottles are pretty and are stored for display in their own rack on the wall. Aswell as being convenient for where I use them to head out for the day. Also had another friend tell me that I should be keeping my mail by my front door, not near my hallway. Like ummmm ok, I'll keep it where I need it. What is WITH people? Srsly lol

Lmao seriously

The hubris!

Right?

Sadly, this is the classic PR from larger companies. This is also a interesting case on how rumors can get twisted when told between people. I was very young when I first heard about this case and had no idea what had really happened. When my mother tried to use it again to talk about crazy sue people, I had to explain to her how bad Stella was hurt and she had no idea what really happened.

I was one of those people who heard the twenty-millionth hand rumours (secondhand rumours that get out of control haha) and I didn’t know the real story. As soon as I saw those burns though, I was almost in tears 😭 that poor woman! There are people still blaming her for putting it between her knees: even if she juggled three cups of coffee in the street - it doesn’t matter! It obviously was molten hot and was clearly unsafe 😭😖 if it did that to her legs… imagine what it would do to your mouth! My mum fainted a few years ago and ended up on the floor with her butt on the radiator. It sounds funny (She also laughed afterwards) but it burnt her pretty bad in a small area. She was in agony and had to go to hospital, and the recovery was dreadful because it was in an area you can’t stay off of 😭 you sleep and sit on it! If my mum was in such pain with a little patch, I can’t imagine the pain Stella was in 😪

Pissed of too , I was like fuk you McDonald’s give that old lady her damn money !! 😡

Did they allow or did they plant the seed and fan the flames..?

I, also from Germany, was thinking the exact same thing when I watched the video! I feel so bad now. Really teaches you to find out the whole story before you judge…

Don’t feel too bad. We often do the same thing. “Oh we can sue for US pouring coffee over ourselves and WIN, but we can’t get a rapist convicted with every piece of evidence solidified against them.” (That’s one I’ve actually heard) Until today, I didn’t know how bad she was burned.

I’m from Russia, heard the same things! Crazy!!!

This comment made my whole day. Y'all really had no idea? Yes it is hot coffee but that shouldn't be that badly burnt. However guess who else didn't know how serious it was? (Being way too hot, expecting it to go into people's mouths) America! Even Americans were making mockery of her it's not just you guys ❤️ this is important. I love Kendall. Hi from the US!

@@faeri_ this comment now made me upset bc you're so so so right. They do not protect the right people here. It's sad.

Exactly! NOTHING you buy from a food service establishment should be capable of giving 3 degree burns. NOTHING.

And they intentionally made it that hot so that the crappy/cheap coffee would not be so bitter.

They were insensitive.

right and also if she would have drunk the coffee wouldn’t it burn her mouth too?

The way it was reported did not give enough attention to the severity of the injury. The tone of most reports I heard were almost mocking her for the law suit.

Exactly and it still happens today, Don't trust the main stream media do your own research ;-)

you should never sign away your right to speak on what happened, they will take advantage of that

McDonald's had a big hand in crafting the narrative

@@aya9981 yes they would!!!

@@Glenn036 exactly !

Mcdonalds has there faults but spilling hot things on yourself is on you ! I feel awfull for Stella by the way.

@@mikehoncho3695 macdonalds wasn’t at fault for spilling coffee. they’re at fault for making their coffee too hot- way above the temperature that coffee is supposed to be brewed so they can save money on coffee. that’s why they’re at fault.

@@briannaa_xo9386 coffee is hot they lowered the temperature 10 degrees after this i highly doubt that is now any lessikley to burn you if spilled coffee would burn you unless it's just not hot which wouldn't be very good I guess some slow people don't understand this ! I bet you wanna file a suit against Ford for not having cup holders to its their fault huh? Get help!

@@mikehoncho3695 it’s really funny that you of all people are calling somebody slow lmfao shut the fuck up.

@@briannaa_xo9386 good comeback lol ! You're lame! You know why you don't buy your girl a watch?... Because there's a clock on the kitchen stove! Go fix some sandwiches 🥪 hunny!

They all acted like classic high school bullies. What a bunch of pathetic little scumbags.

@@Eric_The_Eccentric her legs literally melted the doctors where even afraid she wouldn’t of survive

Id like to believe that people would be less judgmental now. At least the younger generations.

It's worse now.

The media didn’t tell the whole truth about her injuries, etc, that’s why people were hesitant to side with her. I certainly have a different view after hearing the whole story. I never felt sorry for McDonald’s though.

@@patlynn6425 same. I thought it was a pointless lawsuit until I learned the facts but I didn't ever think "poor McDonald's".

@@katieb.1184 They have so much money, it would be very hard to feel sorry for them.

This video isn't VERY old. It's not even two years old yet 😅

@@terrigaines1812 she probably meant that this story is very old.

I honestly didn’t know this story until now, I assumed someone who had a sip of hot coffee sued over it being hot when it was obvious it would be hot. I’m glad i finally watched this because now i understand exactly what happened

She really did help people, and its awful for what people did to her, for just trying to help people like you, that would burn themselves on the coffee in the future. Such a sweet lady. Im glad you didn't get hurt!. RIP stella 🙏

She was amazing for doing this rip Stella

Who goes to McDonalds on vacation lmao

@@Luca-nu2zg me. I like it

@@Luca-nu2zg a lot of people do..whats your point?

I don't think the media said she was a liar , it was more a case of her choosing to put a cup of hot coffee between her legs and then suing because she spilt it .

Yes - I heard the full story of this probably just a couple years ago and I feel terrible for doubting this poor woman when I was younger. 🙁

The problem was that coffee should never be that high of a temp!

@@breathoffreshair7795 No , that's not true . Boiling is 212 degrees . This coffee might have been 185 degrees . Think about it---if it was truly that dangerous , thousands of people would have been hurt everyday , right ? She just happened to put it between her legs and spill it .

Right! That’s exactly what I thought this whole time!

Sorry about your experience. It's so stupid that they make you guys work under such conditions. I hope you are OK now. ❤️

Morning shifts r hell

I too found her by accident and I'm consuming everything that she has videoed and podcast for The last 5 years. She is awesome and I love that she is so real in her talkin and saying curse words that need to be said

thank you, Kendall, for getting the whole story out!

They probably don't know the actual story.

Nobody knew the real story back then. Even I felt that way about it until I watched the Hot Coffee documentary years ago. She wasn't compensated enough.

If you get offended by a comedian, I don’t know what to tell ya

At the time, (and somewhat still) tv late night hosts just went with whatever the popular stories were and didn't spend much, if any, time to research these stories. Even now, these hosts use anonymous posts on Twitter as proof that their story is real. It is about the joke and whether the person at the center is a victim or even exists, is irrelevant to them. They just want the laugh.

Case wise, they are memos to upper management stating it was dangerous and they ignored it.

AGREED 100%. Imagine seeing an elderly woman, with 3rd DEGREE BURNS from coffee (which in my opinion doesn’t need to be served near hot enough to do that) and acting like it’s her fault. Like come on people have some compassion. Sure she spilled it, but who hasn’t spilled something by mistake. It’s so shitty to see people be so heartless.

EVER

Period.

louder please

They deserved this

But it's not your money. U can't steal because you're not rich. You're literally saying a homeless person can go in your home and steal your things !! Because they're homeless and you are not. You are a rich person next to them. Can't believe u got so much likes

except the legend papa john :(

@@sjmorrison1021 ummm 🤔 why would you feel bad for someone who uses racial slurs

Especially after watching "The Founder" ...

same except when people were tearing down buildings because of a BLM. I felt bad for the corporation's at that point

If you don’t feel bad for them but can you feel anything for justice????

Oh thank god someone caught that too!!! Lolol

Biggest rabbit I’ve ever seen lol

😂 right like she said fuck you whoever complained here’s a rabbit

My cats didn't get the memo either, very cute bunny!

I'm confused. Why aren't dogs suppose to be on furnitures? Is it really not a big deal?

no, not single penny

This case should have bankrupted McDonald’s, especially when they let the world harass her & sending her death threats. McDonald’s probably actually did a lot of those horrible things to her in retaliation for the bad press. Gag orders should not only be lifted when perpetrators use it to further abuse the victim, but gag orders in general should be rejected 99.99% of the time because it only benefits the perp.

This person easily just not watch the video how dare they tell Kendall which pet she can have on her video I would've went ahead & put my dog on anyway.

Which video was it under?

I know I love seeing her pets!

It's probably the same type of Karen who would call abuse for "never letting them out we never see them!"

I loved that too, tell em Miss Kendall 😂

I know :( People should learn their facts before making judgements

saw the gnarly pics, should have been shown to people who made fun of her.

The media didn’t want to loose them as a advertiser so they sway the story in the advertiser favor….nothing has changed now. Look at the pharmaceutical industry they control the narrative. People are influenced by the narrative they receive.

No one is at fault here.

I just hope more and more ppl start to realize that the media isn’t necessarily concerned with presenting u with facts. They r concerned with ratings and pushing out their narrative (whatever that may b n the given situation). They aren’t the voice of truth or reason, and perhaps they never were. But it’s only now that we (the general public) have the resources readily available to find the truth for ourselves. U often hafta sift thru many weeds to find that blade of grass, but it is always worth it.

Me too :( I guess we always have room for growth. At least we have the capacity to adjust our views in light of new information.

Those photos of her injuries broke my heart :/

It's because that's the story that was told. Her and her family were drowned out in favor of the narrative from McDonald's. I remember this case and this coverage. I remember the years of mockery and the Stella Awards that were joked about... Making up or exaggerating cases. The truth told YEARS to surface, because it had become such a joke. And tbh, there were a LOT (and still are a lot) of frivolous lawsuits here. So it was believable when the narrative was "she got a little burn and blew it out of proportion"

And this is why we should continue to do our research on everything we hear and question everything we hear.

I feel the same way. All over the world, we have to be smarter. Media are messing around with us.

She eventually did. IIRC her official cause of death was said to be long-lasting complications associated with needing repeat skin grafts. She didn't die immediately but her burns and age did catch up to her.

Same. My jaw was to the floor. That poor woman 😭

I can’t find them, do you have links?

"stella mcdonalds coffee spill burn photos" its right on google images. And yes they are horrific

@@DoorsToHideBehind156 I found them but had to scroll through a ton of nonsense and they were really crappy quality small images, just wondering if there’s the actual photos anywhere

@@brookeelle6879 There is no big clear pics due to the location on the body the burns were.

🤣 this comment tho 👍🏽

Lmaooo😂😂🤡

Holy shit why you not the top comment 😂

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Well they (McDonalds) probably thought the same thing everyone else thought they (the public) knew. In the small picture its "her fault" for spilling. In the bigger picture its their fault for a bad product. Im almost positive McDonalds didnt understand the severity and laughed it off. What dummies LoL.

Same, but I think a lot of people didn't know the severity of her injuries. I also didn't know that the media were making jokes about her situation

I was going to comment the same!

Me too.

Same here

it amazing how any story can be spun on the media all written by pr firms to push agendas

Yup. Some of the settlements that were mentioned in this video were for third degree burns to people’s throats

@Chris Tombs But it only takes 2 seconds at 150 degrees, 6 seconds at 140 degrees, or 30 seconds at 30 degrees to cause third degree burns

@Chris Tombs okay but this McDonald’s coffee was 190 and they said it was… like McDonald’s literally admitted that it was 190 F which is enough to melt your skin in 2 seconds flat making it unfit for consumption and making McDonalds negligent. If it’s too hot to drink straight away without melting your throat off then maybe instead of “caution: hot” they should have “Don’t drink this beverage straight away: It will literally melt your face off if you don’t leave it for at least 10 minutes”on the side of the cup.

@Chris Tombs That is way too fucking hot. The skin of your lips and the mucus membranes of your mouth and esophagus are highly sensitive to temperature. Just being exposed to 150 degree water for 2 seconds is enough to give you 3rd degree burns.

@Chris Tombs do you not understand how hot 190 degrees is or are you that arrogant?..that is too hot for consumption...go get u a pot of water and heat it to just 150 (normal temp for coffee at other restaurants) and pour it on yourself and see how u feel..then come back with a relevant comment.

That would have been a good thing to present in court:)

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Do you really think she was the only person who was served coffee at that temp. ? Are you thinking that nobody else drank it ?

@@exitscreaming your point? Kendall literally says in the video their coffee had burned hundreds of others

Then while presenting "accidently" spill it on there laps ;)

Me too!! My goodness 😳 So painful!!

Omg I'm going to remember this and say it to people if need be. Love it 😆😍

Very punny. 🤣🤣🤣

Im so glad I watched this video. I was VERY young when I heard about this and this just proves how corrupt corporations are!!

😂 going to remember for those who don’t like that my pets live inside

I love this comment so much

I've spoken to one or two Americans who seemed to have a peculiar reverence for corporations. I also notice that in many comments they go straight for the government(which may be fair enough) but hardly ever about the corpos. Also, as far as I know, the US is the only country in the world to have affectionate nicknames for big companies. Man, they're an odd lot

@roman_the_baptist so you can drink 190F? Wow. That’s amazing. You should be a firefighter for sure seeing as you apparently have superhuman resistance to heat!

consumerism and capitalism moment 🗣

Imagine sending death threats to anyone over some bullshit that has nothing to do with your life. Imagine sending death threats ever at all. So unhinged.

Moral of the story: get all sides of the story before making assumptions.

Just when I thought I couldn’t love her more lol

😂 😂 😂 Love the bunny!& U

She on that thug life! 😂

They did? Wow that's really cool. Was it something like this case is misinformed by many people or just to show the shady ness of government actions?

Same! I learned this in high school, which is why I clicked the link. I'll just say that it was 2007/8 when I learned about it in a 'Pre Law' class. Also, I did not know about how extent her burn was! The fact that society made fun of her, sickens me.

wouldn't surprise me in the least if rotten ronnie slipped the media some cash to downplay her injuries resulting in forced ignorance to what really happened

Its capitalism for ya

@@cleetusmacfarland9453 that's literally what happened

Exactly because she as many many others was unaware of just how hot it was. Therefore without all the information she may not have chose to open it on her lap had she known how hot it was. She thought she was just ordering a traditionally hot coffee not what was being sold.

Exactly. If anything it was McDonalds fault. Why were they serving it that hot. Others were gettin burned as well. Stella just wanted her coffee 🙄

Usually they are getting them hot chocolate, those are the milk temps

Wrong, it is always 160, extra hot is 170. Im a barista haha

And yes kids temp is 120

I fixed it Kayla, thanks!

Huh? How is that even possible??

There is a good documentary, Hot Coffee, about this case and how these major corporations and insurance companies took advantage to pass civil litigation caps screwing people. Like a doctor who refused to come in to do a c section because they were out at a restaurant and the baby ended up being born disabled and the cap ended up only taking care of the child’s healthcare for a few years. Like this wasn’t an isolated incident with McDonald’s, they just didn’t GAF.

Exactly like why in the world would I purposely spill 185° coffee on me and five myself 3rd° burns just for the fun of it like social media really needs to grow up

Most people assumed she spilt regular coffee onto herself. Yeah, that would hurt like a b**ch, but wouldn't leave you with 3rd degree burns and massive scarring. No one back then even talked about how crazy hot the McDonald's coffee was. Once people see her wounds, they are like 'Oh my. That coffee was waaayyyy too hot.' And start to understand that she wasn't solely to blame for her injuries. Most people didn't realize she had been horribly injured as the news never talked about that part. My mom's biggest complaint about McDonald's coffee is that it is unreasonably hot (even to this day) and you can't drink it upon serving.

This is because people are so brain washed by our media and why the government can take control so easily because people don’t research shit. I had no idea this even happened. Poor lady!

This whole world is Gullible some Way

Exquisite bunny! 🧡

I have 2 Flemish giants. There are some rather large bunnies out there

can you train a rabbit? eg poop in a certain place etc

@@aya9981 yes they can be litter trained.

@@aya9981 you can litter box train a rabbit. However pooping idk how easy it with that. Because normally they just poop whenever they have the urge. But peeing they tend to in one spot.

They still only reduced the temperature by 10 degrees. It buys a few seconds but still not enough.

@@tiffanyb34 nope, we serve our coffees and hot teas at 200.

@@JaazBegonias I’m on stellas side for this but I used to be a barista and I like my coffee pretty hot, so that’s how I’d make it. The complaints that it wasn’t hot enough were ENDLESS. people leave their drink for 15 minutes and still want it hot. I always wonder if this had something to do with it, just a way for them to avoid getting endless complaints.

IT'S COFFEE

They did it partly because the coffee remained hot on the road. People would order it and let it sit while they drove, ate, whatever. Then drank their coffee.

They knew before hand that they way they kept it was dangerous. There were memos in upper management about it was so hot it was dangerous. They opted to do nothing because they didn't want to change the process. I know one of the lawyers involved in the case.

She didnt accept 480k ....but wasnt about money

I wish people could think before they speak

@Lisa Stalnaker Aren’t you getting information from the media right now though? 🤔

I was thinking that the entire time watching this. She seemed like such a sweet soul and I can only imagine how that felt to be the butt of the joke in the 90’s. The 90’s held NOTHING back when it came to the jokes and stuff

@@Onehallofacreation Yup Ikr

Bc ppl always assume that suing a company means that u only want money. The other 700 ppl probably filed but didn’t make it to trial but we will never know

Given how deep the burns were I doubt you'd even survive???

Honestly, I bet a lot of people didn't know what they were getting into and burned the heck out of their mouth. I just hope they didn't put a lot of sugar in the coffee. 😬

Hell if thats what it did to your legs id hate to see what it would do to your lips, face, and throat

They shouldn’t be serving the coffee so hot that it can cause serious substantial injury

So true she's probably lucky she spilled it in a way she nearly died but at least it was external

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@Brea Regans amen

Maybe they need to make better coffee

@Noah Moon what and you drink it that hot? Load of bs

@Noah Moon yeah, but you should wait for it to cool down a bit before drinking it

That's the temp at which it should be *brewed*. It cools somewhat before you drink it and people often add things like sugar and milk, which also help to cool it. This woman was horribly injured by coffee at that temp, are you confused somehow?

@Noah Moonwatch the video again, the car didn't have cup holder

Or poor it on their crutch and see what happens 🤣

I get what happened to her was bad indeed But what you expect from employees to cool the coffee before serving When you make coffee at home isn’t that hot ??

@Harleen Natt Did you even watch the video? It was proven that McDonald's was purposefully brewing their coffee way hotter than at home coffee machines are even capable of. As was clearly stated in the video, no one was expecting the employee to "cool off" the coffee for her but they wanted McDonald's to serve it at a more reasonable temperature. If you make a cup of coffee at home and spill it on yourself, you likely aren't going to get third degree burns unless you purposefully leave it sitting on your skin. That's the issue. Not that the coffee was served hot instead of cold dumbass

@@harleennatt4363 i understand what you are saying. But in my opinion it should NEVER EVER be that hot. Ever not even at home. Its a drink meant to go down your throat. Why would ANYONE NEED coffee to be that hot? What of someone drank a sip immediately.

@@harleennatt4363 are you joking? Please tell me you’re joking.

She likely had complications and pain until she died. I knew a young girl about 16 who got burned with fry oil on her whole back. I saw her again when she was in her late 20’s and she told me her skin still has a burning sensation. You never really recover from that kind of injury.

@@lillystryker8570 :( so sad

$640,000. Thats what she was "awarded" after the final verdict came down. New Mexico "wanted" to give her over $2.5m but, obviously they didnt.

@@anonymousher0 nobody knows what the exact amount is because of a NDA signed by all parties involved. It was settled out of court with an undisclosed sum which is never allowed to be revealed unless the NDA’s become nil and void or have a time limit like a lot of closed documents that can’t be opened for say 50 years. The amount you wrote is what she was awarded by the public court case which she refused and both parties sued each other again until a settlement was agreed upon by both parties out of court, on the conditions of NDA’s. It’s why she never spoke publicly after the settlement about the case.

@@lillystryker8570 I was ejected from my car when a drunk caused my car to flip on 95 and I got a bunch of injuries. I was scalped, skull cracked and brain swelling , chest ripped open and hanging off, liver nearly ripped in half, both lungs collapsed, and by far the worst pain was from the road rash over half my body. I still have gravel embedded in my skin.. I was given a fentanyl patch and dilaudid every hour and had to get my dressings changed twice a day and it took two hours and was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. It felt like they were peeling my skin off every time. There is an awesome documentary called Hot Coffee about how McDonald’s and insurance companies used this to pass these litigation caps to screw over people. Like a doctor who refused to come in for a c section because they were at dinner or something and the baby was born disabled and the tort reform led to only covering the child’s healthcare for a few years. That “telephone booth “ had been hit multiple times and the man was locked in it and couldn’t get out because it was damaged and they left it.

And sending HER death threats. Like what's people's problem???

Lmao ur right

LMFAOOOOI

She should do a meal collab with them 🤣🙄

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😂😂😂😂that part

That was the same for me!! I was just a kid at the time

Same here! The adults in my family were bad mouthing her like crazy.

They did “realize,” they just did not give a fuck & see you as an open wallet, not a human being.

This!!

and she wasn’t driving the coffee cup literally ripped apart

@@lilacviita2575 she never once said the coffee cup ripped or fell apart. She said it flipped up side down on her lap and that is how it all happen. The cup did not just fall apart.

She was in a car. But she opened it KNOWING it was hot because she ordered HOT coffee

@@crystalsmith7939 you're about as bad as McDonald's themselves, so you saying she deserved for this to happen to her? 🤨

Seriously! I’m so in love with Kendall (not literally but you know what I mean lol) I’ve been a fan for the past couple years and just recently started watching her and her husbands podcast “Mile higher” 😍 she’s just awesome!

Let’s be honest, she could talk about anything and make it entertaining 😄

Yes pls more lawsuits 😍

Maybe it's partly your fault, but it's largely the fault of the media for portraying Stella and her case the way they did. I learned the truth years ago, but I remember at the time how the media smeared her and made her into a complete laughingstock. The media was very effective in lying to the American people about the "dumb person who sued over coffee being hot."

Those women after they saw the burn pictures changed their minds. The media never focused on very important facts. Thx for this story

I know! that made me feel some type of way

Right!!

That part! Trying to defend McDonald’s as if they’re not a shitty ass company

Just keep finding out how much of an asshole Justin Timberlake is this year

Talk show hosts are ruthless