It's once again time to review the winners of the annual Stella Awards.

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> 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 teens
> who allege that eating at McDonald's has made them fat, was filed after
> the 2003 award voting was closed. This suit will top the 2004 awards list
> without question.
>
> 5th place ( Tied ).
> 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 toddler was Ms
> Robertson's son.
>
> 5th place ( Tied ).
> 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 did not notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when
> he was trying to steal the hubcaps.
>
> 5th place ( Tied ).
> 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 could
> not re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage
> locked when he pulled it shut. The family were on vacation and Mr Dickson
> found himself locked in the garage for 8 days. He subsisted on a case of
> Pepsi he found and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the house owner'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 neighbours
> Beagle dog. The Beagle was on a chain in its owners fenced yard. The award
> was less than thought because the jury felt the dog might have been a
> little provoked at the time as Mr Williams who had climbed over the fence
> into the yard 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 sued the owner of a Night Club in a
> neighbouring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and
> knocked out two of her front teeth. This occurred whilst Ms.Walton was
> trying to sneak out of 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 Mr Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City
> Oklahoma. Mr Grazinski purchased a brand new Winnebago Motor Home. On his
> 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 RV left
> the Freeway, crashed and overturned.  Mr.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
> advising him that in the owner's manual that he could not actually do
> this.  The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago Motor Home.
> The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit just
> in case there was any other complete morons buying their recreation
> vehicles.

:D :D :D ROFL ROFL at their sheer brass neck, until I read about the poor Beagle! Responsibility for our own actions is being PTS by the compensation culture.

happens in this country sometimes too.
A lady is trying to sue a company as she asked her hubby to bring babys eyedrops to her , she proceeded to put them in and after realised it was nail glue ,babys eye was glued together, shes now sueing the nail glue company for making the bottle look like eye drops . i dont think ive ever come across nail glue that looks like eyedrops . some people are so thick

That must have been a horrible accident, but really...talk about taking it to the extreme. Its another case of not taking responsibility for her OWN mistake and trying to palm off the blame elsewhere - typical of this country.

I actually have a friend who put nail glule in her own eye instead of eye drops.  No lasting damage, both came out of smallish, pale coloured bottles, but there the similarity stopped.  She certainly did not sue anyone, and had to put up with guffaws of laughter at the casualty dept and much teasing at work.  Perhaps the lady should sue the husband for bringing the wrong bottle? ;)
bye
Gwen

normaly nail glue comes in a bottle with bright pink on and is alot smaller then an eyedrop bottle . mabe hubby had his beer goggels on why would anyone keep medication with beauty things anyway especially with a tiny one around :( hopefuly she will be more careful

But there are some of us who are mentally challenged :D Says she who nearly washed her hair in toothpaste yesterday :D (Well it's not my fault if my toothpaste looks just slightly like my shampoo, although I did realise just in time that the blue 'shampoo' in my hand wasn't quite the right colour :D )

Daisy