It’s one of life’s little pleasures. On a chilly spring morning, there’s nothing better than a steaming hot beverage from a coffee shop. Of course, you have to be careful not to burn yourself on your new steamy beverage. After stopping at a Starbucks in Manhattan, Zeypen Inanli apparently wasn’t careful with his hot tea and burned himself. Of course, rather than blaming his own eagerness for a morning beverage, he’s blaming Starbucks and suing the company because he burned himself.
Now, I love a good dumb lawsuit as much as the next guy, but saying Starbucks’ cups are poorly designed and that’s why you burned yourself? You must be nuts. I have my problems with the company, but I’ll admit that they’ve designed themselves a great portable cup, and that they always put the lids on tightly before they hand them over the counter. Plus, those heat shields are great to recycle for your own personal travel mugs.
If you don’t know how to take care of yourself by now, and if you haven’t learned how to keep from burning yourself on a hot beverage or drinking yourself into a psychosis on caffeine, then there’s no help for you. Companies can’t protect you from yourself, nor should they be required to. The faster this lawsuit gets thrown out, the better off we’ll all be.
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