Teenager awarded millions of dollars in lawsuit after suffering barbecue sauce burn

Texas Teenager Received Cash After Being Burned By Condiment That Would Make Kramer Seinfeld incredibly jealous.

According to court documents viewed by FOX 26 Houston, in May 2023, 19-year-old Genesis Monita ordered breakfast tacos with a side of barbecue sauce from Bill Miller Bar-BQ Enterprise. Barbecue sauce on breakfast tacos is an interesting choice, but to each their own.

Anyway, after taking the sauce out of the bag, she dropped it on her leg due to the temperature of the container and suffered a second degree burn.

In October 2023, Monita filed a lawsuit against the Texas restaurant and was awarded $2.8 million by a 12-person jury last Friday.

If receiving $3 million for a second-degree burn sounds outrageous, that’s because it is, and the breakdown of the payment adds to the absurdity.

More than $25,000 was paid for medical bills following the injury, which seems fair considering the cost of a hospital visit and everything that was done after the fact. This is where it gets a little crazy.

A whopping $900,000 was awarded to Monita for “past and future mental anguish, physical pain and impairment.” Bill Miller Bar-BQ Enterprise, a franchise with 75 locations, was found “grossly negligent” by the jury, awarding Monita $1.9 million in punitive damages.

The restaurant can appeal the decision, and one would imagine it will, but nothing was filed as of Sunday, according to FOX 26.

Every time you see a story like this, you start playing the “What would you do for x amount of money” game in your head, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of the human population would accept spicy barbecue sauce on the leg for a salary of $2.8 million.

I wonder if Monita tweaked breakfast tacos despite the pain, or if breakfast tacos without barbecue sauce were a deal breaker?