Stella Awards You have all probably seen this but i just got forwarded it on email... thats americans for ya > It's time once again to review the winners of the annual "Stella Awards". > > The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee > on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired the Stella > awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States. > > > > Unfortunately the most recent lawsuit implicating McDonalds, the teens who > allege that eating at McDonalds have made them fat, was filed after the > 2003 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2004 list without > question. > > > > The following are this year's winners: > > > > 5th Place (tie): > > Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 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): > > A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses > when his neighbour 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 sum 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 neighbour'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 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. 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 Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, > Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor > home. On his first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven > onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left > the drivers seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. > Not surprisingly, the R.V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned. > Mr.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual > that 'cruise control' would not actually drive the vehicle for him. > The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus anew motor home.(The company actually > changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any > other complete morons buying their recreation vehicles.) > >
I never read things then post them and soemone has laready out it or said it...I do it all he time! Never mind hun..
