LAW: Re: (Absurd?) Tort Cases

Miles Seeley answers Rob Gaudet: "I'm sorry, Mr. Gaudet, but I just do not understand.

If I brew really hot coffee at home and spill it on myself, then it's my fault, and the pain and suffering and medical bills stem from that. If McDonalds brews really hot coffee and the old lady spills it on herself, McDonalds is to blame?

Where did her responsibility for the act disappear to? (Obviously, I am not a lawyer. I am the son of a lawyer, who in his later years felt that a once noble profession had gone to the dogs"