Winners of the annual "Stella Awards."

[John S. Lagnese]

The US has more lawyers per capita than anywhere else on earth.  Our laws 
are made by lawyers. Our presidents are usually lawyers, sorry Abe,. At the 
risk of offending any lawyers on the list, lawyers are paid liars. Judges 
should throw out frivolous lawsuits. The lawyer in DC suing for millions of 
dollars over a lost pair of pants was actually allowed to proceed through 
with the suit. Imbeciles and goldiggers are emboldened by occurences such as 
these. At school, I teach 7th grade in Massachusetts, hardly a day goes by 
that at least one student doesn't say "I'll sue!"  I simply inform them they 
need to be 18. The final point of this rant is the so-called justice of the 
church making large settlements for cases of abuse. Justice is when those 
responsible for the acts and coverups to go to jail. People just line up for 
paydays, not justice!
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at comcast.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:39 PM
Subject: FW: Winners of the annual "Stella Awards."


> Thought this to be of interest even if not much Audi content, though 
> perhaps
> similar to the frivolous suit Audi endured due to CBS "60 Minutes  -
> Unintended Acceleration fiasco" later retracted as a farce.
>
>
>
> Subject: Winners of the annual "Stella Awards."
>
>
>
> It's 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 success-fully sued McDonald's (in New Mexico ) That 
> case
> inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous and ridiculous, yet
> successful, lawsuits in the United States ...
>
>
> Here are this year's winners:
>
> 7th Place
> Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her
> peers after breaking her ankle when she tripped over a toddler who was 
> running
> inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably
> surprised at the verdict, considering that the misbehaving little toddler 
> was
> Ms. Robertson's son.
> ****************
>
> 6th Place
> Nineteen-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
> 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 because the automatic door opener malfunctioned.  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, so 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 home owners' insurance company, 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 neighbors'
> beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owners' fenced yard.  The award 
> was
> less than originally sought, because the jury felt that 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
> (tail bone). 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 P lace (drum roll, please)
> This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City , 
> Oklahoma
> . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand-new, 32-foot-long 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 driver's seat 
> to
> go into the back to 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 that. The jury 
> awarded
> her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed its 
> manuals
> on the basis of this law suit, just in case there were any other complete
> morons around.
>
> P.S.
> I think the jury pool is 'dumbing down'!!!!!
> None of this speaks well for America or its justice system.  May the Good 
> Lord
> keep us not only separated from idiots like these but safe from them, as 
> well.
>
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