Stella awards

**Mizfit** · 10-26-2006, 08:45 AM

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."
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>The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
>hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM).
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>That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous,ridiculous,
>successful lawsuits in the United States .
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>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 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 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 incase there were any other complete morons around.

**NightTrain** · 10-26-2006, 09:00 AM

ROFLMAO......... holy shit with all the dumb shit ive done in my life i should be a millionaire

**RuhlFreak55** · 10-26-2006, 09:12 AM

rofl........how in the hell do u expect a motored vehicle to stay on the road while u make a sandwich???????????

**Mizfit** · 10-26-2006, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by RuhlFreak55

rofl........how in the hell do u expect a motored vehicle to stay on the road while u make a sandwich???????????

I multitask wonderfully - txt msg, eyeliner.. u name it!!!

**RuhlFreak55** · 10-26-2006, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Mizfit

I multitask wonderfully - txt msg, eyeliner.. u name it!!!

u can txt and drive???? now that's scary

**zimmy** · 10-26-2006, 09:22 AM

lol... i like to break check people who put make up on in the car...mebe i'll make em gouge there eyes out and the road will be safer and less congested

***perfectbeast2001*** · 10-26-2006, 09:23 AM

only in America....

**Phreak101** · 10-26-2006, 09:28 AM

Jesus H Christ, what is this country coming to....

**NightTrain** · 10-26-2006, 09:30 AM

yeah only us americans are talented enough to talk on the phone and chew bubble gum and drive at the same time......

**DNoMac** · 10-26-2006, 09:33 AM

Fvckin dumbasses. Makes a mochary out of our legal system.

**Squatman51** · 10-26-2006, 09:48 AM

are these for real????????

If so these people are complete dumbass and i mean dumbasses!!

the #1 is just crazy what kind of idiot would do that hahahaahah

this is one of the funniest things ive read one here

**Andorious** · 10-26-2006, 10:48 AM

this stuff just gets me so mad. to think that someone can attempt to rob my house, hurt themself and then I have to pay them. its just absurd.
the stupidest people of all are the people on the jury actually awarding these idiots.

**donniebrasco** · 10-26-2006, 10:53 AM

thats why there's so many stupid warnings on packaging.
my caffeine pills warn that they contain caffeine, nuts contain nuts, and caution cod contains fish. hmm