[BITList] Stella Awards!!!

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Now frank, 
You knew snopes says these are all fabrications - somewhat entertaining never the less.
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On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, franka <franka at iinet.net.au> wrote:

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> It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those 
> unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 
> 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself 
> and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where 
> she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the 
> coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving 
> Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? 
> 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. 
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> Here are the Stellas for year -- 2011: 
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> *SEVENTH PLACE* 
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> 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 son 
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> Start scratching! 
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> * SIXTH PLACE * 
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> 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. 
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> * FIFTH PLACE * 
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> 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 
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> Double hand scratching after this one.. 
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> *FOURTH PLACE* 
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> 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. 
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> Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot.. 
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> * THIRD PLACE * 
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> Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury 
> ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after 
> she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. 
> The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had 
> thrown it at her boyfriend 30 s econds earlier during an 
> argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for 
> their own actions? 
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> *SECOND PLACE* 
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> 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. 
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> * FIRST PLACE * 
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> 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 overturned. 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? 
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> $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 court system is out of control, be sure to 
> pass this one on.
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