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The McDonald's Nugget Burn Lawsuit: Did the Mother Torch Her Own Daughter?

from Nugget Branding | The Tim Dillon Show #346 · #346

8 min

News

Tim dives into a news story about a McDonald's chicken nugget burning a girl's leg and McDonald's being found liable, building an elaborate theory that the mother deliberately heated the nugget with a lighter to burn her autistic daughter for a lawsuit payout.

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  • McDonald's found liable for hot chicken McNugget that fell from Happy Meal and burned girl in South Carolina.
  • Tim on the appeal of a good scam or con in America.
  • Tim theorizes the mother deliberately heated a nugget and pressed it against her daughter's leg to stage an injury.
  • Tim imagines the mother's internal monologue while preparing to burn her daughter with a hot nugget.
  • Tim describes what getting ahead in Florida now requires: lighting a nugget on a lighter until it's so hot you can't touch it.
  • Tim argues that if a child simply grabbed a nugget from the bag, she'd only burn her fingers, not her leg.
  • When Tim goes to McDonald's, he uses nuggets as filler between other items, and they always require opening and selecting individually.
  • The defense claims the daughter got excited about the toy and dumped the entire Happy Meal on herself.
  • Tim's final theory: the mother either brought a pre-heated nugget from home or torched one in the car to the point where it could cause a second-degree burn.
  • The autistic daughter never testified, which Tim notes is convenient because she could have exposed the mother's scheme.
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McDonald'sUpchurch FoodsFort Lauderdale, FloridaSouth Carolina

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