Stella Awards!

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2005 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 eightdays.

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.



2nd. Place: Kara Walto 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 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 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.



SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE..........................!!!!!!

Anonymous

OMG! These are simply outrageous! Maybe they should start giving prospective jurors intelligence tests or tests for mental stability.