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From: "Browkenwing" <browkenwing@msn.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
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Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: The 'Stella' Awards :-(
> After Reading these it is hard to believe
> we can't bring lawsuits against some of the
> Dr.s that have destroyed our Lives!!!
> You guys are gonna love these!
>
> The "Stella" awards rank up there with the Darwin awards. Stella
> Liebeck is the 81-year-old lady who spilled coffee on herself and sued
> McDonalds. This case inspired an annual award - The "Stella" Award -
> for the most frivolous lawsuits in the U.S. The following are this
> year's candidates:
>
> 1. January 2000: 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 bastard was Ms. Robertson's son.
>
> 2. June 1998: A 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.
>
> 3. October 1998: A 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. 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 half a million dollars.
>
> 4. October 1999: 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-in 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.
>
> 5. May 2000: 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
> threw it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
>
> 6. December 1997: 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.
>
> And the winner is:
> Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November 2000, Mr. Grazinski
> purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip
> home, having joined 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 Winnie left the freeway, crashed and
> overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the
> handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was awarded $1,750,000
> plus a new Winnie.
> (Winnebago actually changed the back of their handbooks after this court
> case, just in case there are any other complete morons buying their
> vehicles.)
>