Stella Awards - ONLY in America !!!

[Gornicevo]

ONLY IN AMERICA!


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 neighbour 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 neighbour'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

 

[Gornicevo]

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 neighbour'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 neighbouring 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, OK.
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 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.

 

[La Mas Grande]

Lmaooooooooooo This Is Too Much............

 

[Krystal]

:hohsit

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol

 

[ricanlips4u]

Then you wonder why all of your insurance rates are so damn high!! This is why!!! Fkn Jurors who somehow feel sorry for victims !! Feel sorry for the insurance companies! WE PAY FOR THOSE SETTLEMENTS! (spoken as a true insurance underwriter!) lol

 

[SONYA]

You gotta be fuken kidding me...who the f**k do they get to sit on the juries :confused

 

[mike4949]

Only in America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[latinocop]

You have to understand these people that are picked didn't know how to get out of it, or do this for a living. They have nothing else better to do and need the fuking extra cash. They have no common sense and could careless about everyone else because they want to get even with big companies, not realizing that it hurts them also.

These are the same people that go picket "DON"T CUT OUR TREES" but they are using stakes and paper for their protest. Fuking a**holes. I deal with them all the time at work.

 

[ricanlips4u]

Unfortunately these Jurors are US! For some reason WE feel the need to screw all the big companies and give something to the lil guy as if the lil guy WE giving sometin to is GONNA BREAK us off a piece! Yea.. Right! JUST say NO when u go to court and are on the jurors seat.. ! (except of course if Im the plaintiff in the case! LMAO!!