On 8/8/05, adejahja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mestinya pengacara sini ikutan juga ya,.. hehehe
Mestinya jangan nyebarin hoax juga kali ya.. hehehe.. Mudah"an gw gak sembarangan nyebar hoax.. Amien.. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dunia sudah edan. Tapi menurut gua yang hebat itu, lawyernya. Setuju guys??? > > > Kisah Stella Award > > Sebuah penghargaan bernama Stella Award diberikan untuk gugatan paling > "main-main" di AS. Mereka mendapat ganti rugi besar justru karena ulah > dan > kekonyolannya sendiri. Dan pemenangnya adalah yang paling gila dan > nekat! > Stella Award juga sebagai penghargaan untuk para juri di negara > tersebut. > > > > Nama Stella Award sendiri berasal dari Stella Liebeck. Nenek berusia > 81 tahun ini menumpahkan kopi yang dibelinya di McDonald ke dirinya > sendiri. > Liebeck menggugat McDonald dan dinyatakan menang. Kasus Stella > mengilhami > pemberian penghargaan ini. Penghargaan ini juga disponsori oleh > organisasi > pengacara AS. > > > > Para kandidat untuk Stella award tahun ini adalah: > > > > Kandidat pertama, Kathleen Robertson dari Texas. > > Robertson memenangkan ganti rugi dari dewan juri sebesar AS$780.000 > setelah > ia menggugat sebuah took furnitur. Robertson menggugat toko itu karena > pergelangan kakinya patah setelah tersandung anak laki- laki yang > berlarian > di dalam toko tersebut.Pemilik toko furnitur sangat terkejut terhadap > isi > putusan tersebut, mengingat anak lelaki yang "badung" itu adalah anak > kandung Robertson sendiri. Stories *Not* from StellaAwards.com _____________________________) May it please the court: Many stories are going around the 'net saying they are "The Stella Awards". Many of these stories are false, made-up, or (sometimes) true stories with false elements added to them. It makes no sense to use false examples of real problems when there are so many true examples that illustrate the actual problem. The sad part: despite these stories having been debunked *years* ago, they not only still circulate, but *many* reporters, columnists and radio "personalities" still talk about them as if they were true, which says a lot about their professionalism. In many outrageous cases, these lazy "news" people will even link to this site as the source of these silly lies! What a ridiculous lack of standards they have! The most-common e-mail example is the following, which the clerk has marked "Exhibit A". We've received many, *many* copies of it over the last few years, and no doubt you have too. You'll see what we mean by "bogus". *Claimed Case* *Status* Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running amuck inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving tyke was Ms. Robertson's son. Fabricated. Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran his hand over with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice someone was at the wheel of the car whose hubcap he was trying to steal. Fabricated. Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Penn., was exiting a house he finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up because 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, so 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. Dickson sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a million dollars and change. Fabricated. 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, as was Mr. Williams. The award was less than sought after because the jury felt the dog may have been provoked by Mr. Williams who, at the time, was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. Fabricated. A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled 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. Fabricated. Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a nightclub 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. Fabricated. *The "winner" every year:* In November, 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 could not actually do this. He was awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago. Fabricated. And just so you know that cooler heads do occasionally prevail: Kenmore Inc., the makers of Dorothy Johnson's microwave, were found not liable for the death of Mrs. Johnson's poodle after she gave it a bath and attempted to dry it by putting the poor creature in her microwave for, "just a few minutes, on low," The case was quickly dismissed. Fabricated from a *very* old urban legend! StellaAwards.com has found no evidence to support these stories, nor has the leading urban legend debunker, Snopes.com<http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.htm>. The bottom line: after all these years, it's completely ridiculous for * individuals* to be fooled by these cases, yet every year even "legitimate" * newspapers* run these very cases crying "Ain't it awful?", and sometimes they even attribute these old dumb jokes to us, which shows just how poorly they do when it comes to fact-checking. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Truth *is* stranger than fiction. 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