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« on: January 26, 2006, 01:27:40 AM »
Thought ya'll would appreciate this.
It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck of New Mexico who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners:

7th 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 owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

6th Place: 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: 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 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.

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 drivers 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.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2006, 02:02:28 AM »
*snickers* wow, thats some old ones ... nice to read em again though.  The sadness is... its true.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2006, 02:29:46 AM »
Horrible, some of these people have to be on their way to winning Darwin Awards as well.
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2006, 05:33:55 AM »
im sorry, but the Winnebago story is just plain dumb. if you are that stupid you shouldnt be able to have your drivers license taken away instead of given money and a new Winnebago.
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2006, 10:08:23 AM »
Auto-pilots standard now, shit we've come along way.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2006, 10:20:52 AM »
no kidding, i mean my truck doesnt even have cruise, man, im really behind.
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2006, 12:27:09 PM »
Only in America, The most backwards place in the world, could this happen.
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2006, 12:44:49 PM »
Bahaha!!!  I'm more intesting in meeting the lawyers behind these ones, what devious/clever folks they must be (or.. utter sleeze balls - but that could be said of anyone in the profession).  Great material for my next ev- ohhhh...  :twisted:
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2006, 02:24:14 PM »
No, the darwin awards go to the juries.

If I could throw a soft drink on a floor then slip on it and break a bone for $100,000 I'd do it.  

Its the moronic judges and  juries thats willing to throw common sense out the window in faw of a slick lawyers arguement that are the real idiots.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2006, 05:02:21 PM »
Well i share one old...
Its was a swedish chainsaw company(Husquarna) got suid and was forced to pay some cash to a man who truthfully complained that it was NOT in the manual that you should NOT touch the rotating blade....
They have changed the manual for U.S only, the land of MORONS.

By the way JOE... sue Bioware for ruin your education.. I can voolenteer to witness of your adiction to this game and how you complain about it ruin your school/life/ relations with a nother being.(It need not to be a female or from earth)..
We share the profit equal ..yes?  :twisted:

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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2006, 06:01:59 PM »
I agree with Sakes completely, seriously, how can how many people are they, 12? find out that putting the car on auto pilot and going to make food doesnt mean its your fault if you get into a car accident O.o


totaly funny none the less
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2006, 10:42:33 PM »
new show broadcasting "The Stupidest Things People Can Do: Its Their Faults and They Get Paid to Do It".
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2006, 10:45:02 PM »
I actually heard about number 5...

But no mention of the garage door malfunctioning...
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2006, 10:47:30 PM »
thats what is called ppl trying their best to hide ones stupidity
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2006, 11:10:34 PM »
Quote from: "alkmaar"
By the way JOE... sue Bioware for ruin your education.. I can voolenteer to witness of your adiction to this game and how you complain about it ruin your school/life/ relations with a nother being.(It need not to be a female or from earth)..
We share the profit equal ..yes?  :twisted:

If you're referring to me, that's not why the lady and I have gone our seperate ways. But, I suppose I could do so if it means lots of money. I'd donate it to LOTN, get a super server.  :twisted:
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