In article >,
Dieter Zakas > wrote:

> Regarding children running amok at the supermarket...do their parents
> realize the liability to which they're exposing themselves? Consider, for
> example, an employee handling a pot of hot soup, such as refilling the
> container from which patrons can serve their own portions. A kid zooming
> about the store collides with this worker, and hot soup is not only splashed
> on the employee, but it creates a slipping hazard. Anyone not watching his
> step could easily find himself also on the floor, possibly injured...to say
> nothing of the kid's own harm, such as being scalded by hot soup.

I don't think the consider such things, but I imagine they would turn
around and sue the store.

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