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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

Here are this year's winners:

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 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.

2007-11-10 05:08:04 · 12 answers · asked by xoxox 5 in Entertainment & Music Jokes & Riddles

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 reenter 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.

2007-11-10 05:08:49 · update #1

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.

2007-11-10 05:09:09 · update #2

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.

2007-11-10 05:09:54 · update #3

2nd Place:

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

2007-11-10 05:10:11 · update #4

1st Place:

This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 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 company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this
suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

2007-11-10 05:10:27 · update #5

STAR IF U LIKE!

2007-11-10 05:10:44 · update #6

You star by clicking the star under this question...if that was a joke then, lol!

2007-11-10 05:20:42 · update #7

12 answers

to star them, clike the star and that was awsome out of a rating of 10, i give u 20

2007-11-10 05:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Hahahahahahaha
=]

2007-11-10 08:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i just want to punch all of those people in the face...the only funny case ive heard of was this guy that sued the makers of the Oreo cookie for getting fat off of them...my goodness some people are retarded. lol.

2007-11-10 05:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by Evan 6 · 1 0

I wish I could win a lawsuit for something stupid and get rich quick.

2007-11-10 05:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by Precious 7 · 0 0

OMG
lmao!
people are soo stupid! and the people that give them money are even stupider!
thanks for da laugh!
how do u give a star?
xx

2007-11-10 05:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by *Facepalm* 5 · 1 0

LMAO! The last one is the best! I can't believe how incredibly dumb some people are!!

2007-11-10 05:14:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

the comic tale is mildly humorous, yet your friends have been in all probability stoned too. in turn, tell them the evil tuna comic tale. did you hear the only with regards to the evil tuna? he replaced into rotten to the albacore.

2016-10-16 00:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

funny one! :) Here's a star!

2007-11-10 07:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by A I ™ 5 · 0 0

wow.... these people must have been stupider than a stack of hay!

2007-11-10 05:31:30 · answer #9 · answered by Bess 3 · 1 0

funny

2007-11-10 05:14:12 · answer #10 · answered by Crazy_Jay 3 · 1 0

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