Okay, before any Oklahoma jokes start, understand... not ALL of us Okie's are like the winner!


It's time once again to review the winners of the
annual "Stella Awards." The Stella's 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.
Unfortunately, the most recent lawsuit implicating
McDonald's, the teen's who allege that eating at
McDonald's has made them fat, was filed after the 2002
award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2003
list without question. <---Notice they still do the "suck in and turn" to get into the McDonald's doors though???

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 when
he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. <---Sore thumb?! OUCH!!

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. <---Talk about 8 boring days... eh?

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. <----Typical woman??? J/K!!

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. <---Two shiney new teeth!

1st Place:
This year's run away winner was Mr. Merv Grazinski of
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a
brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first
trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven
onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph
and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back
and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly,
the R. V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned.
Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in
the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this.
The jury awarded him $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 buying recreation vehicles. <---Laughing as we roll!!!

Oh.... so depressing. I certainly hope UFO's dont abduct these people, or they WILL think they're the only intelligent life in the universe (not that I believe in them though, lol )

 

HAHAHAHA man people sure seem to get sue happy when they see $$

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.

Does that guy not know about the emergency rope you pull to release the door from the opener?? If I were the judge I woulda laughed all these people out of court lol.

 

It's funny how urban legends get a little changed through the grapevine. I think McDonald's got off easy
http://www.osmond-riba.org/lis/essay_mcdonalds.htm

 

Honestly I dont care if she was in an office and spilled teh coffe there was no reason for her to sue McD's. All there is to it. I still think both of these McS's lawsuits are completely frivilous and should have been thrown out of court. WHY ARE YOU DRINKING OR FIXING COFFEE IN A CAR IN THE FIRST PLACE AND NOT EXPECT TO CASUE TROUBLE??????

granted I know at least one if these is false, the guy stuck in the garage.

 

Unbelveable I can not for the life of me figger out the jurys in this country leting lawsuites like these slide. That in part is why we are paying so much for our goods & services. What was that dork thinking when he drove his motorhome. Did he also thing that the bathroom would clean him up on auto poilt. And what is that old bag thinking when she ate at Mc Donalds did she think that she was eating at a health club. One would think she is old enough to know that fastfood is fatning. As far as the guy stealing hubcaps he should be in jail for stealing the hubcaps not getting $74,000. This just baffles me..

 

Of course these sort of posts are always good for a few laughs, unless you have seen them a dozen times already. This is a good web site to check stories like these.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

It says that this particular list is all false and that the cruise control one has been around in different forms for 30 years or so.

 

Shepard I would not put to much weight on what snopes says. I have found them false on many verifyable things. namely quotes that myself or other trusted sources (my fiancee and her colloege history class) has investigated, namely quotes, like the one where thomas Jeffeerson said that any respectable white man should have slaves.

Snopes said this was false, it was verified IN HIS personal diary in ink in his handwriting.

I do not believe any of what snopes says either do your own investigation. Snopes is by a bunch of people that anyhting that MAY seem incredible at first glance is in fact false. This is an improper way of doing business as incredible things have a tendency to actually happen.
If there where not people still alive they would probably say that the holocaust never happened either do the the initial increduality of an event like taht actualy happening.

 

Interesting information to know. I have never before seen anything but positive information about that web site. Many of the things I get forwarded to me these days are just slightly altered versions of things I have seen in the past, so I don't even have to look to know they are false. When I do check things on Snopes, their explanations always make sense, and sometimes they do show things to be true.

Do you know of any other similar sites? Always good to have several sources to check things out.

By the way, I searched Snopes and could not find any entry about Jefferson and slaves. Could you post the URL? I would be interested to read what they say as I had always heard that it was true that Jefferson had indeed put it in writing.

Thanks.

 

The reason you did not find it, is because it was hastily removed after a collage proffsor approached the site admin with proof that they were wrong it was gone in a matter of hours.

No I do not know of any other sites, best bet would just be searching for legal documents on such cases, granted an unoriginal document could also be forged online so it makes any type of true inclusive undoubtable research rather hard. Even pictures can be faked. dont take anything at face value and dont completely believe anything you see or read off the net.
the only sites you know that do not have tampered documnets are not always entirely.....telling....such *** CNN, Fox, the FBI homepage and other suck sites also ending with .org

 

Come on guys... it was posted as a joke.... lol

 

Ewwwww he actually had to live off that?.......the pepsi i mean.

 

Natural selection obviously took some time off.

 

yeah,gotta agree with Tim. the ole gene pool needs a bunch more chlorine!!!

 

The awards should go to the attorney's for representing these people. Now there's a lower form of life.