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The Stella Awards...
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
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. In my opinion this
is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !
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.
2ndPlace:
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 in
case there were any other complete morons around.
M Lev... 
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| October 3, 2006, 17:14 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: The Stella Awards...
The real sad thing is, that there are actually judges, who are suppose to be intelligent, allow such bullshit into the court rooms. 
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| October 3, 2006, 21:04 |
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lizonya
64 / couple
lake elsinore, California, US
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Re: The Stella Awards...
something wrong with our judicial system!
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| October 3, 2006, 23:54 |
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40something
57 / female
In the Sun, Arizona, US
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Re: The Stella Awards...
I can't believe this, makes it more important to not let judges make laws
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| October 4, 2006, 09:54 |
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