People love to be paid for their own stupidity it seems. Being a fool has become rather profitable of late. A young woman who was seemingly unable to test the temperature of a container before handling it gave herself second-degree burns after throwing scalding BBQ sauce on herself.
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19-year-old Genesis Monica was looking forward to tucking into her breakfast tacos from Bill Miller BBQ. As she opened up her feast in the parking lot of the restaurant, she hungrily grabbed for the BBQ sauce. However, the container was hot, and being sat in a car, rather than at a table, she mishandled it.
She then proceeded to throw the hot BBQ sauce over herself, resulting in second-degree burns. This, she claims in her lawsuit, is the fault of the BBQ restaurant. Despite being a regular there, and clearly loving their food, she's looking to put them into the ground for her own personal gain.
Suing For Stupidity With Scalding Sauce
The young woman is claiming in her lawsuit that the BBQ sauce was too hot, and incorrectly packaged. Her lawsuit states that "Bill Miller was negligent in giving her "dangerously hot" barbecue sauce, not providing her a container that was "adequate" to contain the condiment and failing to warn her that the sauce was hot."
Apparently, she needs her sauce delivered to her in a hermetically sealed container, at room temperature, and with a written warning and verbal contract.
The lawsuit also goes on to say that the condiment should only be heated to 165 degrees. The BBQ sauce that gave Monica the burns was 185. But, claps back the BBQ joint, 165 is actually the minimum they heat it to, not the maximum.
Furthermore, the BBQ restaurant has clarified a few more points. Despite the woman saying the container wasn't adequate, the restaurant assured her that the container was good up to 250 degrees. As they point out, she has been to the BBQ spot a million times. She knows food is usually served hot. Could she not have used common sense?
"What would we have warned Ms. Monita of that she did not already know? She had the sauce a hundred times, and it was always the same temperature," they said of the BBQ sauce that caused her burns.
Hopefully, she doesn't get away with trying to scrounge money from a Texas BBQ staple. Her burns should be a life lesson about being careful with food, not a way to make money.
