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Topic: really ???
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: really ???
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2018 at 12:14pm
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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 Stella's for this year: · 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, 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 a 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. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2018 at 9:33pm
| I changed my scratching spot as you tolt me to...now I gots rub burns on my bal..! can I sue for that? lol |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2018 at 9:34pm
| some of them jury's and judges must gits a percentage is all I can figger out! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2018 at 10:46pm
| Did these guys all sue in the state of California??? |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 5:14am
And I just had coffee squirt out my nose after reading that. I’m lmao. Who should I sue? |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 6:20am
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The juries in these awards need to be placed in psycho wards or at least be made wards of the state as they have NO SENSE enough to be out free roaming in public. Common sense is a thing of the past, us older folks have most of it so we must have absorbed the remaining little that ever existed as these people are so stupid as to be ignorant. To add, a number of years ago there was a New Motor Yacht sold on Lake Ozark, gentleman owner declined a ride thru with sales as was Too Busy and needed to get to the party they were throwing for his new purchase. Left the marina, set the 'Auto Pilot' that was NOT SET UP, stepped to the bar to mix a drink where the 48' boat at almost full throttle drove up on the rocks at the new bypass bridge. Both engines ran until destroyed(No water for coolant as on land) the hull was destroyed and he filed suit as to a faulty Auto Pilot he was never instructed on. He did NOT win, but his Insurance DID PAY for the replacement boat, once he gets his driver's license back, currently suspended for the incident he can operate it according to MO State Revenue Department. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 6:51am
| Heard on the radio this morning a guy is suing Playboy"dot"com. Why? He is legally blind, and says they are not conforming to the Americans with disabilities act, that their sight doesn't support his screen reading software. Hmmm.....All I could come up with was a braille screen!! |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 7:24am
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Makes u wonder about the guy the posted this . ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 7:57am
| Wonder about what guy that posted what? |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 9:25am
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Be careful, Jay, the "contractor" may sue you for causing him "mental anguish" by expecting him to complete that one day roof job in less that a month. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 9:42am
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Lawyers know that if they can get the right jury (welfare leaches, not hard working people) impaneled they have a good chance of getting big $$$ and the insurance companies look at that as a cost of doing business. so they usually try to settle out of court. People should be held responsible for their stupidity, if it harms them - tough chit; if it harms someone else - they should suffer the consequences. I have not been called for jury duty in years, apparently they don't like me expressing my opinions during deliberations. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:46am
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Im a bit dubious of these, a couple I recognize has having been around on the net for several years! And, even a blond woman knows better than the last one! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 1:26pm
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 1:44pm
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Some may be fake...... but the point is the COURT system and the TARDIE people that set in judgement are mostly brain dead. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 2:07pm
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And an honestly injured person gets the shaft. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2018 at 8:45pm
I know the motor home story has been around before. And I would wager the less than $50,000 settlements are the insurance company paying people to go away. I am way to much in the know about a case were 3 to 5 year old kids out playing and a boy pulls pants down on a girl. Many little things could of helped but end result mommy
 and her blood sucker are walking with $100,000 just to go away.  Insurance companies have run into enough off the wacko juries they go to a accountant first then to there lawyers. But hay in the end it's not the insurance companies money, we all just have to dig a little deeper if we want insurance. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2018 at 11:08pm
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Most, if not all of the 'stella awards' identified above, are fake... just variations of stories thta were concocted a long time ago. "You can believe everything on the internet"... - Abraham Lincoln, 6/5/1977 ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |