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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Stellas Awards for This Year

Some of these are priceless!!

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards"! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee.

You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?

That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.

You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head.

So keep your head scratcher handy.

Here are the Stellas for this year:

* SEVENTH PLACE *
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 store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!


* SIXTH PLACE *
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

Scratch some more...


* FIFTH PLACE *
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open.

Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental anguish.

Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

Keep scratching. There are more...

Double head scratching after this one…


* FOURTH PLACE *
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard.

Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot.


* THIRD PLACE *
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

Only two more so ease up on the scratching...


* SECOND PLACE *
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000.... oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.


Ok. Here we go...


* FIRST PLACE *
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home.

On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.

Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned.

Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set.

The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down? $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home.

Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.


If you think the USA court system is out of control, be sure to pass this one on.

SMH…These morons ought to be very grateful that I wasn’t one of their jurors.

22 comments:

  1. Let us at least hope that these people are required to undergo voluntary sterilization before they can collect the money.
    Dear Lord.

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    1. I agree, Jz but also think the bloody jurors should undergo sterilization along with them!

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  2. Please tell me this is not for real! Geez, some people. Eyes are rolling here! Nutty people, I'm with Jz, hope they cannot reproduce.
    --Baker

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    1. Unfortunately, these are real, Baker. I agree with Jz but think we should take it further and do the same to the jurors.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  3. LOL Cuz! :) Some juries! I have nothing more to add... HA! Many hugs,

    <3 Katie

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    1. They don't need to be reproducing, that's for sure, Cuz!

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  4. I am with JZ on the sterilization suggestion. When you teach school in the middle of a city, you meet people like this and they make lots of babies!

    Ella says Sheesh!

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    1. I think the consensus is for sterilization, Ella and I said worse than 'sheesh!' ;)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  5. Im all in for the sterilization motion too. Sheeesh!

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    1. Right there with ya, Fondles...just think we should add the jurors to that. :)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  6. Hi cat, Blimey, these are unbelievable, this is not justice!
    love Jan, xx

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    1. I totally agree with you, Jan...definitely not justice. :(

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  7. Can't believe some of these. Some people. Thanks Cat.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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    1. I agree, Ronnie...some people definitely need to be prevented from reproducing...plaintiffs, jurors and plaintiffs attorney!

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  8. I don't think these people came up with the claims. I think some lawyers look for such cases. Whoever, invents the claim, the lawyer makes it possible and should have a rod inserted up his anus and exit his mouth. Maybe something slightly less gross for the jury.

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    1. I do like your way of thinking, Bogey and I agree...the ambulance chasers definitely convince these morons that they should sue.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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    1. I've heard there have been some stupid ones in Canada and England also, Hands63...hope I'm wrong.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  10. I have heard that in cases like this, it is very rare that the winner ever receives any money. I hope so. People so rarely take responsibility for their own actions.
    Amy

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    1. I agree, Amy...it's ridiculous with the "not my fault" attitude. Hope you're correct in that the winners don't receive any money but I would have to ask, why since they received a legal judgement.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  11. These are horrible. I can't believe they are real and I know they are. What is wrong with people nowadays?

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    1. It's frustrating to see that the "not my fault" mindset is becoming more the norm than the exception, Blondie.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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