STELLA AWARDS
> Enough to leave you speechless –
> and more!!! ; The morons on these juries should all be candidates for
> the Darwins, too.
>
> It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'!
> For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after
> 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself
> and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico ,
> where she purchased coffee. You remember,
> she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her
> knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could
> get burned doing that, right? That's right; these are
> awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the
> U.S. You know, the kinds of
> cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head
> scratcher handy.
>
> Here are the Stellas for year -- 2014
>
>
>
> * SEVENTH PLACE *
>
> 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 store
> owners were understandably surprised by the verdict,
> considering the running
> toddler was her own son
>
> Start scratching!
>
>
> * SIXTH PLACE *
>
> Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000
> plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand
> with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice
> there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying
> to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
>
> Scratch some more...
>
> * FIFTH PLACE *
> Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was
> leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the
> garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door
> opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to
> open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter
> the house because the door connecting the garage to the
> house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for
> eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of
> Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the
> homeowner's insurance company claiming
> undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the
> insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
> We should all have this kind of anguish Keep scratching.
> There are more...
>
> Double hand scratching after this one..
> * FOURTH PLACE *
> Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place
> in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical
> expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door
> neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a
> chain in its owner's fenced yard.
> Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the
> jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the
> time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the
> fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a
> pellet gun.
>
> Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald
> spot..
> * THIRD PLACE *
>
> Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury
> ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after
> she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone.
> The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had
> thrown it at her boyfriend
> 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
>
> Only two more so ease up on the scratching...
>
> *SECOND PLACE*
>
> Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a
> night club in a nearby city because she fell from the
> bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front
> teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through
> the ladies room window to avoid
> paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club
> had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go
> figure.
>
> Ok. Here we go!!
> * FIRST PLACE *
>
> This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was:
> Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who
> purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first
> trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the
> freeway, she set the cruise
> control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to
> go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.
> Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed
> and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued
> Winnebago for not putting
> in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually
> leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was
> set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
>
> $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed
> their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs.
> Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor
> home.
>
> If you think the USA court system is out of control, full of
> imbeciles, and manipulated by greedy snakes :
:
> Enough to leave you speechless –
> and more!!! ; The morons on these juries should all be candidates for
> the Darwins, too.
>
> It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'!
> For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after
> 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself
> and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico ,
> where she purchased coffee. You remember,
> she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her
> knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could
> get burned doing that, right? That's right; these are
> awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the
> U.S. You know, the kinds of
> cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head
> scratcher handy.
>
> Here are the Stellas for year -- 2014
>
>
>
> * SEVENTH PLACE *
>
> 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 store
> owners were understandably surprised by the verdict,
> considering the running
> toddler was her own son
>
> Start scratching!
>
>
> * SIXTH PLACE *
>
> Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000
> plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand
> with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice
> there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying
> to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
>
> Scratch some more...
>
> * FIFTH PLACE *
> Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was
> leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the
> garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door
> opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to
> open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter
> the house because the door connecting the garage to the
> house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for
> eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of
> Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the
> homeowner's insurance company claiming
> undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the
> insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
> We should all have this kind of anguish Keep scratching.
> There are more...
>
> Double hand scratching after this one..
> * FOURTH PLACE *
> Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place
> in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical
> expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door
> neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a
> chain in its owner's fenced yard.
> Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the
> jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the
> time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the
> fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a
> pellet gun.
>
> Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald
> spot..
> * THIRD PLACE *
>
> Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury
> ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after
> she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone.
> The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had
> thrown it at her boyfriend
> 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
>
> Only two more so ease up on the scratching...
>
> *SECOND PLACE*
>
> Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a
> night club in a nearby city because she fell from the
> bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front
> teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through
> the ladies room window to avoid
> paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club
> had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go
> figure.
>
> Ok. Here we go!!
> * FIRST PLACE *
>
> This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was:
> Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who
> purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first
> trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the
> freeway, she set the cruise
> control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to
> go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.
> Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed
> and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued
> Winnebago for not putting
> in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually
> leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was
> set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
>
> $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed
> their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs.
> Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor
> home.
>
> If you think the USA court system is out of control, full of
> imbeciles, and manipulated by greedy snakes :
:
