look it up and prove it false.
So you loose the real enjoyment of reading such things. It's defiantly a
shame that you can't suspend reality for a split second and enjoy.
Hehe when you goto the movies do you come back to snopes and see if the
stuff in there was real too??
Here have Relaxation Muffin :>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:37 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: The Stella Awards (lightening the mood) :)
Aaaaaaaaand THWACK.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
I love the Mikkelsons :)
- Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:34 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: The Stella Awards (lightening the mood) :)
It's once again time to review the winners of the annual Stella awards.
The Stellas 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.
Unfortunately the most recent lawsuit implicating McDonald's, the teens
who allege that eating at McDonald 'S has made them fat, was filed after
the
2002 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2003 awards list
without question.
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 out of the window in the Ladies Room to avoid
paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental
expenses.
1st Place. (We've got REAL a winner!)
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 drivers 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 recreation vehicles.
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