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These are unbelievable...that they are actually true!!!!! You've got to

read them.....

It's once again time 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 McDonald's. That case inspired the 'Stella

Awards' for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States.

 

THIS YEAR'S AWARDS GO TO:

 

5th Place (Tied)

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 toddler was Ms.

Robertson's son.

 

5th Place (Tied)

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

did not notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying

to steal the hubcaps.

 

5th Place (Tied)

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 could

not 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 8 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 dog. 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 a little

provoked at the time as Mr. Williams, who had climbed over the fence into

the yard, 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 sued the owner of a Night Club in a

neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and

knocked out two of her front teeth. This occurred whilst Ms. Walton was

trying to sneak in the window of 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 Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new Winnebago Motor home. On his

trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, he set

the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into

the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly the RV left

the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not

advising him in the owner's manual that he could not actually do this. The

jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago 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 recreational vehicles.

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NBC sued over rat-eating show

 

Friday, January 7 2005, 16:28 GMT -- by Daniel Saney

 

 

NBC is being sued by a viewer over an episode of Fear Factor in which contestants ate rats mixed in a food blender.

 

Disgusted viewer Austin Aitken told the Associated Press that he is a regular viewer of the show but that he felt that the rat-eating challenge was going "too far". "It's barbaric, some of the things they ask these individuals to do," said the man who has filed the $2.5m lawsuit.

 

His suit claims that the show caused a rise in blood pressure, dizziness and vomiting. He then ran into a doorway "causing suffering, injury and great pain." Apparently he could not turn to another channel in time.

 

NBC dismiss the lawsuit as being "without merit". Aitken says that he is not really after a cash settlement, but he wants to send a message to NBC and other broadcasting networks.

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yeah... I heard that they did.

It used to seem so bad that on days with fresh snow

people would be up early just to slip on other people's icey patches.

Or stories about people who had been hit by a car while on foot more than once.

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I think that 'common sence' should overrule all of this shit.

 

Like the woman who threw her drink and then slipped on it.

Or the woman who tripped over her own child????

 

I think these people should get dragged into a public square

and the judge getsto smack them in the back of the head and shout 'use your fuckin' head for once!'

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!@#$% got it right, apparently crime does pay.

 

 

i can't believe that the majority of these dumbfucks think of this shit on their own. lawyers with dollar signs in the their eyes and confidence of getting a jury that's just as ignorant as their client.

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I used to work in a restaurant. The manager at one of them busted a customer trying to get a free meal by placing one of her own long red hairs in her food. Dude was brutal. After he informed her he didn't have a single person working under him with long red hair that just magically happened to match hers...he asked if she wanted a box for her food...because she needed to leave.

 

:haha:

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"Rockstar Games has reportedly asked a federal judge in Greenville to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the parents of a man killed in a random shooting as he drove through the Great Smoky Mountains on June 25. The two teenagers responsible for the shooting, which left a second person seriously wounded, claimed that they had decided to randomly shoot at vehicles on Interstate 40 after playing Grand Theft Auto III.

 

Rockstar has stated that the victims are trying to hold the company accountable "based on the expressive content of the video game" and claims that such "ideas and concepts," as well as the "purported psychological effects" of the shooters, are protected by the First Amendment's free-speech clause. Miami lawyer Jack Thompson, who is representing the victims, dismissed Rockstar's claims and is seeking to move the case back into state court for consideration under Tennessee's consumer protection act. "

 

I can't fucking believe some of these people. The sad part is that half the time, they fucking win!

 

Go American justice system!

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Originally posted by Hermdog@Jan 12 2005, 08:33 AM

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 dog. 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 a little

provoked at the time as Mr. Williams, who had climbed over the fence into

the yard, was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

 

 

This is just ridiculous, there must be more to it. If I was the dog owner I would have pressed charges for trespass and cruelty to animals and sued him back...

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my personal favorite:

 

A Charlotte, N.C., man, having purchased a box of very rare, very expensive cigars insured them against fire, among other things. Within a month of having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated the cigars were "lost in a series of small fires."

 

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The man sued ... and won! In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed that the claim was frivolous. He stated, nevertheless, that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he had lost in the "fires."

 

 

After the man cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000.00 fine.

 

 

(From the 1999 Criminal Darwin Awards)

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Originally posted by fermentor666+Jan 12 2005, 09:37 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (fermentor666 - Jan 12 2005, 09:37 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>You sure this wasn't from The Onion or something? I can't see a group of sane people awarding 500,000 dollars to a burglar because he was an idiot and couldn't break a door down.

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<!--QuoteBegin-Poop Man Bob@Jan 13 2005, 08:09 AM

Most, if not all, of those above are made up. Sorry. For example, the first place prize is an urban legend.

 

 

That's what I'm saying. You all are too gullible sometimes.

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Originally posted by Weapon X@Jan 12 2005, 06:02 PM

Aitken says that he is not really after a cash settlement, but he wants to send a message to NBC and other broadcasting networks.

my arse, why as for 2.5mill then?

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