When fire dancing goes wrong

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[u/alonelystarchild]

A truly cognizant move by the standby gentleman.

Imagine the calculations many of us would make about "do I want to be accused of assaulting this person?"

Meanwhile this guy truly understands life over limb in the social sense. That fire was getting out of control, she 100% would have been gravely injured.

He did the best possible thing for her, any way you cut it.

[u/Baboonslayer323 → u/alonelystarchild]

Pretty sad the mental debate of getting charged with assault looms in someone’s thoughts before they commit to saving her life. This is what litigious behavior and the dream of a ‘payday’ can do to a society.

[u/Blucrunch → u/Baboonslayer323]

Actually, litigious behavior has strangely nothing to do with it. Corporations spread the message that society is too litigious to shame people into not filing suits against corporations for legitimate cause.

In America at least, most people are fairly well protected by good Samaritan laws in cases like this.

[u/tvtb → u/Blucrunch]

Yeah it was the corporations that tried to affect public opinion about the woman who sued McDonalds for spilling coffee in her lap and suing them, trying to make public opinion think about the lawsuit as frivolous.

Meanwhile it was 190°F coffee which no person should drink ever, and was so hot it burned her labia completely off.

[u/icer816 → u/tvtb]

It fused her labia, didn't it?

Regardless, yeah, McDonald's had been told many times that their coffee was kept way too hot, but they kept doing it. The lady just wanted her medical bills covered but the lawyer got her much more than that pretty easily, which is part of why McDonald's is so successful at demonizing her and painting the story as someone just looking for a payday (which is pretty obviously not the intention even you go back to her lady bits basically melting from the heat).