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 Stella's for 2015 !!!!
* 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. 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 hand 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 dink 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 * ~ absolutely brilliant!
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was:
Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased 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 over turned. 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.
Source: Stella Awards.com, posted by Dick Anderson
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