Sorry it so long, but well worth it. Courts gone mad. lol
>>>Time once again to review the winners of the Annual
>>>
>>>"Stella Awards."
>>>
>>>The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
>>>hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That
>>>case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous,
>>>successful lawsuits in the United States. According to reliable legal
>>>analysists, for every idiot who wins a case, thousands of other
>>>imbeciles don't make it that far. We can thank our lucky stars for that,
>>>because it's you and me who end up paying for these mental midgets
>>>awards as companies pass the cost on to the consumers.
>>>
>>>When I was growing up, my folks told me that if I did something stupid,
>>>I'd have no one to blame but myself. I guess the Stella awards prove my
>>>folks, and every other law-abiding, intelligent person who takes
>>>responsibility for his or her own actions, dead wrong! AND I firmly
>>>believe that everyone on these juries should be locked up and the keys
>>>thrown away!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Here are this year's winners:
>>>
>>>5th Place (tie):
>>>Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 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):
>>>19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses
>>>when his neighbour 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 neighbour'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. This is so outrageous
>>>that it should have been 2nd Place!
>>>
>>>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
>>>neighbour'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 neighbouring 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.
>>>
>>>And drum roll please...........
>>>
>>>1st Place:
>>>
>>>This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
>>>Oklahoma.
>>>
>>>(This one sounds eerily familiar, like an urban legend, but it is a
>>>mater of public record in 2005 at the Superior Court in Oklahoma City.
>>>And it just goes to show that you can't protect stupid people from
>>>themselves.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On
>>>her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the
>>>freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the
>>>driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not
>>>surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.
>>>Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual
>>>that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus
>>>a new motor home.
>>>
>>>The Winnebago company actually changed their vehicle operating manuals
>>>on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete
>>>morons in the world!
Lets all hurt ourselves, then sue someone else. Lol
2006-11-26 23:13:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
LMAO!! Not only is it hard to believe the stupidity of the people who instigate these lawsuits-but it makes me wonder how brain dead you have to be to be a juror that allows these idiots to win these cases!
2006-11-26 23:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Egyptians fellows, I have no relation or compassion at all with Hisham Talaat Mostafa, I am also shocked that he could be involved in such a case but I have to say that we should wait until the final say of the justice is pronounced and he is condemned as murderer. Take care that accusing people without a real assurance could be a sin.
2016-05-23 08:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by Mary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't only the stupid people who sue, it is the stupid people on the juries who encourage this idiotic behavior by actually awarding money for being a dumb a**.
2006-11-27 00:15:40 · answer #3 · answered by dragonkisses 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Omigod! These people are either so stupid or so intelligent! They got money for being embarrassingly thick, you have to admire them at the same time though and wish you had thought of that.They should have got awarded a tin of Braso for their necks!
2006-11-26 23:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by floss 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can see how the person in third place won her case (inefficient cleaning staff) but the others are completely unbelievable! What were the jury thinking?!
2006-11-27 01:16:47 · answer #5 · answered by Katri-Mills 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
u r right, the jurors should b locked and key thrown in the sea.
thanks 4 sharing.
2006-11-26 23:42:31 · answer #6 · answered by Vijay Anand 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
im going to run through a wall and sue the wall, to get at least £100,000 of damage
2006-11-27 00:14:45 · answer #7 · answered by nack nack 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they were great
up till now the best i ever heard was a woman who sued a microwave comany after she tried to dry her cat in her microwave and killed it, now they have to put that it is unsafe to put animals in a microwave in the instruction book.
2006-11-26 23:47:17 · answer #8 · answered by ngbreeca 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's got to be worth a go hasn't it?
hmmm, I think I'm gonna sue someone
2006-11-26 23:15:58 · answer #9 · answered by markhatter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The stories above can be found at:
http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html
Remove the "bogus.html" for outrageous but true court cases.
2006-11-27 00:30:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋