Re: The Stella Award ~OT~

[Guest guest]

Don't worry, Susie, the " Stella Awards " stories, though a very funny

concept, are NOT true:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.htm

Sorry about the lawsuit. I'm amazed at how many people go through this

kind of nonsense.

[ ] The Stella Award ~OT~

> My daughter sent me this. And for some reason I thought it was so

funny!

> The main reason I thought it " funny " was because we own our business.

> And we had a man who was doing some fiberglass work on our commercial

> fishing boats about 2 1/2 years ago. Well, he arrived and we commented

> how " bad " he looked and if he wasn't feeling well to go home. He

assured

> us he did not feel " bad " due to illness, he explained he stayed out at

> " The cafe " (which is the Cafe Risque a nude bar) all night trying to

> " score " , and he didn't get in until after 4 a.m. Well... he then

> proceeded to get onto our boat...you guessed it... he slipped and

fell.

> We tried to get him to go to the doctor he refused saying, " only thing

> hurt is my pride " . So that was that. He continued working for almost

a

> month until he finished. Well... in the mean time he had been told (a

> year before) he needed a hernia operation. Well... you guessed it...

he

> got to thinking... and about 5 months AFTER he fell on our boat, he

has

> a Lawyer send us papers... we are getting SUED! Ha! So far, in and out

> of court... he hasn't gotten nowhere ... YET... Seems he couldn't get

> the DATE of the FALL right! He was a month off! And other things that

> the Court would not accept. But if you read these things, it does

make

> me wonder how the rusults will come out for us!!!

> Susie

> *Could this really be true? I would like to think most Americans are

> smarter

> than this?

>

> The Stella Award

>

> The " Stella Awards rank up there with the Darwin awards. Stella

Liebeck

> is

> the 81 year old lady who spilled coffee on herself and sued Mcs.

> This

> case inspired an annual award - The " Stella " Award for the most

> frivolous

> lawsuits in the U.S. The following are this year's candidates:

>

> 1. January 2000 - Kathleen on 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

> child was Ms. on's son.

>

> 2. June 1998 - 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.

>

> 3. October 1998 - Terrance 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. 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 homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him

> undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a million

> dollars.

>

> 4. October 1999 - Jerry 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 it's

owner's

> fenced in 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.

> who was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

>

> 5. May 2000 - 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. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson threw it

> at

> her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

>

> 6. December 1997 - Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware successfully

sued

> the

> owner of a night club in a neighboring city where 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.

>

> 7. And the winner is: Mr. Merve Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In

> November

> 2000 Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home.

> On

> his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise

> control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the

back

> and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the Winnie left

the

> freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued the Winnebago for

> not advising him in the handbook that he couldn't actually do this.

He

> was awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnie.

> (Winniebago actually changed their handbooks on the back of this court

> case, just in case there are any other complete morons buying the

> vehicles.)

[Guest guest]

Hahaha! Well I HOPE that our lawsuit won't be the " First Stella Awards "

then! Oh no!

By the way.... what does it mean to have your CRP " over 100 " ???

Mine was today.

Susie

wrote:

> Don't worry, Susie, the " Stella Awards " stories, though a very funny

[Guest guest]

Hi Susie,

CRP is C-Reactive Protein. The test measures the concentration of a

protein in blood serum that indicates acute inflammation. I think

normally there is no CRP in the blood serum, so I would guess 100

means there is some inflammation.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Have a good day.

Al in IL

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> > Don't worry, Susie, the " Stella Awards " stories, though a very

funny

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