glass
(he, him)
A mate sent me this while the boards were down:
[SBLOCK=Long email]
> > 2005 Stella Awards!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 2ndPlace:
> > Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully
> > sued the owner of a night club 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
> >
> > 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 driver's 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.[/SBLOCK]
Then one of the other recipients emailed me about it, giving a link to this website. Apparently, the email is all fake, but there are plenty of genuine cases just as daft!
glass.
[SBLOCK=Long email]
> > 2005 Stella Awards!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 2ndPlace:
> > Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully
> > sued the owner of a night club 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
> >
> > 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 driver's 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.[/SBLOCK]
Then one of the other recipients emailed me about it, giving a link to this website. Apparently, the email is all fake, but there are plenty of genuine cases just as daft!
glass.
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