Dear Readers;
Once again you can thank your lucky stars that we live in Canada. Although people are quick to sue in this country it’s nothing like it is in the States!
Here are the Stellas for year – 2011:
* 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 son
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 drink 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.
What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
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 *
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?
$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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