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#1 Sep 09 2004 at 5:21 PM Rating: Default
just got this email


>Do we have any need for Tort reform?
> >
> > 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
> > McDonald's.) That case
> > inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous
> > successful lawsuits in
> > the United States.
> >
> > 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 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 while
> > he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
> >
> >
> > 5th Place (tie):
> >
> > Terrence ******* 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. ******* 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 rear end 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 Overland Park, KS.
> > Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot
> > Winnebago motor home. On
> > her first trip home (from a KU basketball 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 explaining in the
> > owner's manual that
> > cruise control isn't automatic pilot. The jury
> > awarded her $1,750,000
> > plus a new motor home.

Edited, Thu Sep 9 18:22:03 2004 by SmashingJroc
#2 Sep 09 2004 at 5:24 PM Rating: Default
Who the **** wants to read reposted e-mail spam we all get anyway (and ignore, with the possible exception of you)?
#3 Sep 09 2004 at 8:06 PM Rating: Decent
Complete fabrication. From snopes:

Quote:
Only rarely do ridiculous lawsuits result in windfalls for the plaintiff; these cases are almost always either thrown out or the judgement goes for the defendant. Some celebrated "outrageous" suits wherein judgement went for the plaintiff prove upon closer examination to be far less "outrageous" than originally presented in the media. (For example, the "woman scalded by hot coffee" suit, which at first blush looked like the height of frivolity proved to be a perfectly legitimate action taken against a corporation that knew, thanks to a string of similar scaldings it had quietly been paying off, that its coffee was not just hot, but dangerously hot. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America provides an excellent description of this case).


Good job on believing anything you read. Try some research next time.
#4 Sep 09 2004 at 8:28 PM Rating: Decent
Quote:
Good job on believing anything you read. Try some research next time.


Hey, if you read some of his OTHER postings, you'll probably agree that he's doing well to find his way back to these boards after the short bus drops him off each day.
#5 Sep 09 2004 at 8:36 PM Rating: Default
Quote:
Good job on believing anything you read. Try some research next time.


I didn't even make a comment about the email. You ******* retartd. Re-read my post you moron.
#6 Sep 09 2004 at 10:01 PM Rating: Decent
****
4,512 posts
I think I speak for many when I say:

We don't give a fu[b][/b]ck.
#7 Sep 10 2004 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
SmashingJroc wrote:
I didn't even make a comment about the email. You ******* retartd. Re-read my post you moron.


Well, you're the moron who posted it in two different places, as if that would make it that much more important.

If I had to venture a guess, you probably don't even know who Stella Leibeck is or any of the details of her case. You're just another one of those blind followers who recieved something in an email, read it, and posted it all over the place to ensure everyone reads it and goes "OMGS! We need tort reform NOW!" just from reading something they have no idea where it came from, except your email box. And we all know that's a reliable source for information!

That plan didn't exactly work out for you, did it? Considering just about everyione here has seen it before, except you.

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