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The Stella Awards
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>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 who spilled
>hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). 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:
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>1st Place:
>This year's run away 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.
I want to suit the triplets for being so Damm Cute....he he he lol