moparstuart
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Now I know for sure something is extremely wrong with the justice system. M.
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> Stella Awards
>
> It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar
> with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who
> spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in
> New Mexico , where she purchased coffee.. You remember, she took the
> lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.
> Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That's
> right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts
> in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.
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> Here are the Stella's for the past year:
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> * SEVENTH PLACE *
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> 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 store owners were understandably
> surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
>
> Start scratching!
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> * SIXTH PLACE *
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> Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical
> expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.
> Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the
> car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
>
> Scratch some more....
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> * FIFTH PLACE *
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> Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house
> he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for
> Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could
> not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house
> because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut.
> Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case
> of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's
> insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury
> said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
> We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more...
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> Double hand scratching after this one..
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> * FOURTH PLACE *
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> Jerry Williams, (not related to Bob) of Little Rock, Arkansas,
> garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus
> medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door
> neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its
> owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for
> because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the
> time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
>
> Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..
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> * THIRD PLACE *
>
> Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a
> Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a
> spilled soft drink and broke her tail bone. The reason the soft drink
> was on the
> floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier
> during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for
> their own actions?
>
> Only two more so ease up on the scratching....
>
>
> *SECOND PLACE*
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> Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a
> nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
> knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
> sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover
> charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000.....oh,
> yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. Ok. Here we go!!
>
>
> * FIRST PLACE *
>
> This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv
> Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot
> Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football
> game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at
> 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the
> Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home
> left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs.
> Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that
> she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control
> was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
> $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their
> manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any
> relatives who might also buy a motor home.
>
> Are we, as a society, getting more stupid?
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>
>
>
>
> Stella Awards
>
> It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar
> with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who
> spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in
> New Mexico , where she purchased coffee.. You remember, she took the
> lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.
> Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That's
> right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts
> in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.
>
>
>
> Here are the Stella's for the past year:
>
>
>
> * SEVENTH PLACE *
>
> 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 store owners were understandably
> surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
>
> Start scratching!
>
>
> * SIXTH PLACE *
>
> Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical
> expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.
> Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the
> car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
>
> Scratch some more....
>
>
> * FIFTH PLACE *
>
> Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house
> he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for
> Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could
> not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house
> because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut.
> Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case
> of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's
> insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury
> said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
> We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more...
>
> Double hand scratching after this one..
>
>
> * FOURTH PLACE *
>
> Jerry Williams, (not related to Bob) of Little Rock, Arkansas,
> garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus
> medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door
> neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its
> owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for
> because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the
> time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
>
> Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..
>
>
> * THIRD PLACE *
>
> Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a
> Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a
> spilled soft drink and broke her tail bone. The reason the soft drink
> was on the
> floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier
> during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for
> their own actions?
>
> Only two more so ease up on the scratching....
>
>
> *SECOND PLACE*
>
> Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a
> nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
> knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
> sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover
> charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000.....oh,
> yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. Ok. Here we go!!
>
>
> * FIRST PLACE *
>
> This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv
> Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot
> Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football
> game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at
> 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the
> Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home
> left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs.
> Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that
> she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control
> was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
> $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their
> manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any
> relatives who might also buy a motor home.
>
> Are we, as a society, getting more stupid?
>
