Motor Home

[Jackrabbit379]

A man went to a car dealership. A large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair. The man asked the manager what had happened. The manager told him that the driver had set the"cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.

[Random_Facts]

Hahaha, cruise control, then went into the back and fix a sandwich, oh man. Lol

[Drew10]

Read 1st place:

(These really seem off the wall, but who knows with todays lawsuit "happy" society).


The Stella Awards !
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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 success-fully sued McDonald'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:

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7th Place

Kathleen Robertson 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. Robertson's son.

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6th Place

Nineteen-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.

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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 tune of
$500,000. In my opinion, this is SO outrageous that it should have been
2nd Place.

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4th Place

Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical
expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next-door neighbors'
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. Williams who
had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly
with a pellet gun.

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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.

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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.

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1st Place (drum roll, please)

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.

[Trukrswyfe]

Sorry man better check out snopes.com

Urban legend

[Fredog]

Sorry man better check out snopes.com

Urban legend

It's usually attributed to a Swift or JB Hunt driver..

[Drew10]

I got that thru E-Mail, I find it very "fishy". Havent put it through Snopes.

[Drew10]

Just checked the "Stella Award" in Snopes. All are bogus.

Snopes did list some outrageous cases that did make it into the courts, but were unsuccessful in a lawsuit.