I completely agree with you and feel very strongly that people must be more responsible for themselves, but unlike many of these other reaching lawsuits, the McDonalds did actually have some merit. At that time McDonald's had the policy in place of free refills on their coffee. It was found in corporate documents that the company encouraged to heat the coffee to an excessive amount, so that it would take customers longer to drink it...therefore reducing the amount of refills requested. End result? Coffee dangerously hot, here it left 3rd? degree burns.