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We all know about the ridiculous McDonald’s coffee case of 79-year-old Stella Liebeck, who was adding cream and sugar to a 49-cent cup of McDonald’s coffee she’d bought at the drive-through.

Holding the cup between her knees in a parked car, she spilt the entire cup in her lap. With her cotton sweat pants absorbing and holding the hot liquid to her skin, she sat in the puddle for more than a minute before her grandson, who had been in the driver’s seat, rescued her.

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