The Stella Awards

Nitro Owners Forum

Help Support Nitro Owners Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

BJ Laster

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 15, 2003
Messages
1,437
Reaction score
0
The Stella Awards

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 McDonalds. 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 Robertson 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 little brat was Ms. Robertson's son.



2. June 1998: A 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: A 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. 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 Williams 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 its 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. Williams 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 Alton 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.



And the winner is:

Mr. Merv 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 drivers 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 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. (Winnebago actually changed their handbooks on the back of their court case, just in case there are any other complete morons buying their vehicles).

 
Each of these stories is false.



They are entertaining, though.
 
Check out the link below. It will expose most of the above Stella Award receptiants as BS, much like the picture of the shark attacking the helicopter I posted.



Harpo
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
 
hmmmm

I got those in an email and thought they were interesting so I posted them. I didn't know they had been circulating for a few years. Oh well hope you enjoyed it anyway!
 
The way things are these days.....I wouldn't be suprised at anything.
 
Check out the website listed below. It's where I go when I want to find out how stupid our legal system really is. The have a compendium of "Personal Responsibility" listed on the right side a couple scrolls down that mention the Stella awards. Those awards are made up. Some of the others listed should be made up but aren't.

Rich.
http://overlawyered.com/index.html
 
You mean the internet is the breeding ground and electronic super highway of rumors, lies and false inuendo's?? Does Al Gore now about this???...LOL The Horror!!! And I thought it was the ONLY place to get the truth!! I'm with you BJ,...I'm shocked and appauled!!!
 
Our new neighbors, a family from France, had us over for dinner recently. We were talking about the U.S. system of justice, and our neighbors felt very uncomfortable with the idea that average citizens on juries are the ones who decide right and wrong. In most of Europe, such issues are decided by judges.



I explained to them what I believe: If you take twelve American citizens picked at random from a community and present them with a case, in their hearts, the jurors want to do the right thing, and will try very hard to do the right thing, by following the law where possible, and perhaps even go slightly outside the law if they perceive an injustice. I believe that 99% of juries try to do right by everyone involved.



That doesn't mean injustices don't happen. A really good lawyer can fog the issues. Sometimes the wronged aprty can't afford to fight the injustice. Sometimes social issues overwhelm a jury's reasoning (O.J. case comes to mind).



But in the vast majority of the legal system, justice is done.
 
From France?? Did they have "Cone Heads?"...LOL...Sorry,..couldn't resist!!!



"If it doesn't fit,..you MUST Acquit!!"

Good old American justice!! (That OJ case was a farce!!)

But this DC Sniper case is right on!!! THAT's Justice!!!
 
I am shocked!!!:) And I'm also surprised there is sooooooo many gullible people out there. Beleive Nothing you hear...and only Half of what you see!

TEE
 
Back
Top