"proof" to go unchecked is, in my mind, clear enough to warrant
different reactions on my part. :)
Hey, this muffin's reeeallly... gooo... </snore>
- Jim
Bill Wheatley wrote:
>LOL see instead of just enjoying the story and laughing you have to go
>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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