[Vision2020] FW: The Stella Awards

Tue Sep 28 16:33:51 PDT 2004

OK so it is a Hoax,

I still think these are funny even if they aren't true. Some of those other 
hoaxes on hoaxes.com are just as funny. Read the one about the poisonous 
spider in toilets all over America and that you better look out before you 
sit down, LOL.

Who has the time to come up with these hoaxes, a better yet, who has the 
time to investigate if these cases really did or didn't happen? Some people 
have a lot of time on their hands I guess.

I ran across many of these cases in Administrative Law and some of my 
Political Science Classes. I find them funny, true or not.

Donovan J Arnold

>From: "Dan Carscallen" <predator75 at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] FW: The Stella Awards
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:23:56 -0700
>
>Sorry to burst your bubble, man:
>http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
>
>DC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
>[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
>Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 3:01 PM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] FW: The Stella Awards
>
>
>It's time once again to review the winners of the annual "Stella Awards"
>   (The Stellas are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
>coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired
>the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the
>United States. Personally, I think they ought to be called "Stupid Jury
>Awards").
>
>   Here are this year's winners:
>
>   5th Place (tie):
>   Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 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 own 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 and 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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