Stella Awards...
03-07-2006, 09:53 AM
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Stella Awards...
And Some people think all is well with the legal system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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. 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 ****son 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. ****son 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. ///*
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 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 run away 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.///*
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. 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 ****son 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. ****son 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. ///*
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 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 run away 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.///*
Last edited by Danger_Dave; 03-07-2006 at 09:57 AM.
03-08-2006, 10:29 AM
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Re: Stella Awards...
I used to work with this guy at my old job, his name was alan. BTW this IS A TRUE STORY. Anyway early one morning after a new snow his next door neighbor came over to shovel alan's snow (without being asked, just being a nice friendly guy). So later that mmorning alan awoke to find a new snow and his nice, clean recently shovled driveway, and sidewalk. So he walked up to his neighbors sidewalk, up to the door TO THANK HIS GOOD NIEGHBOR, Alan slipped and fell and broke his shin (whatever that is called) and sued his neighbor for not haveing his sidewalks cleared. The only reason the neighbors sidewalks were still snowy is because he was being a nice guy and did alans FIRST. Alan was awarded like 80,000 something
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