I've been fairly lucky where electricity is concerned. Been bit many times by 110V but never trapped where I couldn't pull away.

Worst bite I got was when I was checking the 36kV on a radar console CRT. I had the anode cable in six inch fiberglass fuse pullers, which usually was sufficient insulation. I reached down and flicked on the power and felt FIRE up and down my left leg. Turns out I was leaning on a metal filing cabinet and somehow that was just enough path to allow current to flow.

The best, though was the guy who originally taught me high voltage alignments on a 16kV monitor power supply (these are military monitors with true DC power supplies in lieu of a flyback transformer setup). He didn't have a firm grip on the procedure himself, so instead he had a firm grip on the anode cable when he told me to turn it on. BZZZZT! Soon as I heard the sound I turned it back off and he jumped back. He inspected the cable, which looked fine, and inspected the high voltage probe, which looked fine, then put them back together and told me, "Okay, turn it on again." BZZZZZT! Then my boss came in and pointed out that he should not be holding onto the anode cable directly.

It's like suing an Italian restaurant for ruining a white silk shirt
with spagetti sauce. Go figure...

McDonald's paid the beyach off rather than go to court, which is
something they should have done. They should have claimed state
conservatorship on her since someone that stupid/braindead shouldn't be
allowed out in public unescorted. [b]IMHO

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> It's like suing an Italian restaurant for ruining a white silk shirt
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Give it some time, I'm sure someone out there will try. Remember the court case regarding the hot pickle where some guy sued McDonald's because his wife burned her lip on a pickle that was on the hamburger and couldn't "perform her wifely duties" for him for a day or so. If I recall, he won. That was after the coffee lawsuit and the case received a good bit of media coverage as well.

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rdc said, 'wifely duties' ..........

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...and I'm putting on my asbestos suit now. LOL

And many apologies in advance. It's what the lawsuit was all about and I couldn't think of anything other than that except crude language to describe what it was about.

[edit] Here's the link to the story. The language is different but says the same. Should have looked it up first before describing the wording... [/edit]

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Apparently, there was an incident in 1998 where someone found a condom in a McDonald’s hamburger. Here’s David Letterman’s comments:

The Top Ten List "McDonald's Excuses for the Condom in a Big Mac":

#10. We were test-marketing the new "McTrojan"..
#9. Condom … condiment-what's the damn difference?
#8. It still tastes better than the "Arch Deluxe"..
#7. It was either there or in the vanilla shake..
#6 It Turns out the rumors about Grimace and Mayor McCheese are true..
#5. We're experimenting with a new, even happier "Happy Meal"..
#4. So what-a regular Big Mac is 60% latex anyway..
#3. Employees too embarrassed to say, "Would you like condoms with that?"
#2 Drive-thru speaker broken-"Coke with lots of ice" sounded like "prophylactic device"..

And the #1 McDonald's Excuse for the Condom in a Big Mac:
#1 When you're "servicing" billions and billions, you can't be too careful.

By the way, the pickle thing was settled out of court in 2001:
Woman settles hot pickle lawsuit against McDonald's