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You just can't fix stupid...
STELLA AWARDS
>> It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella
>> Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year old Stella
>> Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued
>> McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the
>> most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United
>> States . Here are this year's winners:
>> 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded
>> $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping
>> over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners
>> of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict,
>> considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>> 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000
>> and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a
>> Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone
>> at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's
>> hubcaps.
>> 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol , Pennsylvania was
>> leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage.
>> He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic
>> door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house
>> because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he
>> pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found
>> himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case
>> of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the
>> homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue
>> mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my
>> opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !
>> 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock , Arkansas , was awarded
>> $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by
>> his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its
>> owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the
>> jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the
>> time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard
>> and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
>> 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber
>> Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania , $113,500 after she slipped on
>> a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on
>> the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30
>> seconds earlier during an argument.
>> 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont , Delaware successfully sued the
>> owner of a nightclub in a neighboring city when she fell from the
>> bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth.
>> This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the
>> window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge.
>> She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
>> AND.....
>> 1st Place: This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of
>> Oklahoma City , Oklahoma . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-
>> foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU
>> football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise
>> control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the
>> back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the
>> freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for
>> not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually
>> do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The
>> company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit,
>> just in case there were any other complete morons around.
>>
STELLA AWARDS
>> It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella
>> Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year old Stella
>> Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued
>> McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the
>> most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United
>> States . Here are this year's winners:
>> 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded
>> $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping
>> over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners
>> of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict,
>> considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>> 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000
>> and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a
>> Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone
>> at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's
>> hubcaps.
>> 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol , Pennsylvania was
>> leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage.
>> He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic
>> door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house
>> because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he
>> pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found
>> himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case
>> of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the
>> homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue
>> mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my
>> opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !
>> 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock , Arkansas , was awarded
>> $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by
>> his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its
>> owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the
>> jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the
>> time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard
>> and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
>> 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber
>> Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania , $113,500 after she slipped on
>> a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on
>> the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30
>> seconds earlier during an argument.
>> 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont , Delaware successfully sued the
>> owner of a nightclub in a neighboring city when she fell from the
>> bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth.
>> This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the
>> window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge.
>> She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
>> AND.....
>> 1st Place: This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of
>> Oklahoma City , Oklahoma . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-
>> foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU
>> football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise
>> control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the
>> back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the
>> freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for
>> not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually
>> do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The
>> company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit,
>> just in case there were any other complete morons around.
>>
