[THIN] Re: OT: Friday Humor The Stella Awards
- From: "Nail, Larry" <lnail@xxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:34:23 -0600
No, I understand that, but the truth of the matter is that a great deal of
the law suits in our courts are just plain cr*p. The judges should throw
them out. What happened to people being responsible for their actions...
'nuff said.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Bestany [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:58 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Calm down guys. It's a hoax.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/onlyinamerica.htm
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:53, Nail, Larry wrote:
> Judges who let cases like this into their courts are the problem.
> What gets me even more is that the jury of peers that sat on these
> cases let these folks have gotten away with NOT being responsible for
their OWN actions.
>
> Its stuff like this that makes me want to put a 15 foot steel wall up
> around my property to keep everyone out... If they climb or dig under
> the wall, I'll knock them out drag them into my house, and shoot them
> because I'm defending my home. You can do that in Texas... At least I
could yesterday.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:44 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> This is one of the core problems with our country and society today.
> How can this possibly be? It gripes me to no end to hear about such
> frivilous lawsuits even make it to trial.
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:15 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; brainstem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] OT: Friday Humor The Stella Awards
>
>
>
> It's time once again 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 McDonalds. That case inspired
> the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United
States.
> Unfortunately the most recent lawsuit implicating McDonalds, the teens
> who allege that eating at McDonalds has made them fat, was filed after
> the 2002 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2003 list without
question.
>
> Here are this year's winners:
>
> 5th Place(tie): 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 toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>
> 5th Place(tie): 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. 5th
Place(tie):
> 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, and 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 $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. 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 just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams
> who had climbed over the fence into the yard and 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, 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.
>
> 1st Place: This year's run away winner was Mr. Merv Grazinski of
> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot
> Winnebago motor home. On his first 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 R.V. left the freeway,
> crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising
> him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this. The jury
> awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new motorhome. 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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