Starbucks forced to pay out $50,000,000 to customer after scalding tea left his ‘genitals burned and disfigured’

It all began when Stella Liebeck suffered third-degree burns after a coffee spilled on her lap, awarding her nearly $3 million in damages.

The amount was later changed by a trial judge to $480,000 and the compensatory damages to $160,000.

In another instance, a girl named Olivia Caraballo was awarded $800,000 in South Florida after a hot Happy Meal Chicken McNugget fell into her lap at four years old in 2019.

And in May 2023, Genesis Monita sued Bill Miller BAR-B-Q as she allegedly ended up suffering a second-degree burn after dropping one of the sauces on her lap.

The security footage shows Garcia writhing in pain as the tea spills on him (KCAL News)

She accused the restaurant of making the sauce too hot and said she had not been sufficiently warned about its temperature beforehand.

The lawsuit alleged the sauce was ‘served at 189 degrees’ and ‘when Monita took the container of bar-b-que sauce it was so hot that it caused her to drop the container and spill the sauce on her right thigh causing a second-degree burn,’ stated KSAT.

The lawsuit went on to claim that the sauce was 54 degrees higher than the state’s guidelines, which is reportedly 135 degrees.

At this point, I might just eat at home.