Stella Awards

[chevy38fan]

and get paid to do it afterwards!...

 

 

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 McDonalds. That case inspired the Stella

 

awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States.

 

Unfortunately, the most recent lawsuit implicating McDonalds - the teens

 

who allege that eating at McDonalds has made them fat - was filed after

 

the 2002 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2003 list with

 

out question.

 

 

 

Here are this year's winners:

 

 

5th Place: 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 c

 

onnecting 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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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 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 their recreation vehicles.

[tmf6902]

What the hell are juries thinking when the do stupid sh*t like that. If I do listen to a trial like that I would sue the a-hole for making me miss work....I would probably be paid for "extreme mental anguish" from missing it.

[LarryE]

www.snopes.com they are all false

[chevy38fan]

I knew to check snopes.com first, but decided not to... lol

[tmf6902]

booooo......that sux.....they were funny.

[rado]

 

I saw that last one on that stupid "Big myth show" on MTV.. I don't really watch that garbage, but came across it

[k1500chevy97]

[greyghost03]

booooo......that sux.....they were funny.