Re: Fwd: The Stella Awards

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Peggy...I'm reading your posts. Glad you are home safely.

Guess you needed a good cry huh. That comes upon us some times.

The Stella awards are so ridiculous they are funny.

Have a good day today.

MamaSher, age 70. IPF 3-06, OR. NasturtiumsDon't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

Fwd: The Stella Awards

I thought you would enjoy these awards..�

Love and Prayers, Peggy ��

IPF �2004, �Florida

"Worry looks around,

�Sorry looks back,

��Faith looks up."

�This is so good that it is actually sickning.� Makes it�even more difficult to have respect for judges AND juries!!! �Hard to believe� this could happen� in the good ole USA.� ���� � 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 successfully sued Mc'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 on 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. on's son.��****************� 6th� Place� � Nineteen-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 didn't notice there as someone at the� wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbours 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 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, 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 une of $500,000. In my opinion, this is SO� outrageous that it should have been 2nd� Place.�� ********************� 4th� Place� � Jerry of Little Rock, Arkansas, was� awarded� $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the� buttocks by his next-door neighbours 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. 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� Place� � 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.