These award are named after that Stella biatch who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonalds. Prepare to be angry.
Here are this year's winners:
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>
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> 5th Place (tie): 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 owners of
> the store were
> understandably surprised at the verdict, considering
> the misbehaving little
> toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>
>
>
>
>
> 5th Place (tie): 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 5th Place (tie):
>
> 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, and 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 $500,000.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 neighbor's
> beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's
> fenced 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 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 (tailbone). 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 run away winner was Mrs. Merv
> Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
> Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new
> 32-foot 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 drivers
> seat to go into the back & 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 this. The jury awarded
> her $1,750,000 plus a
> new motor home. The company actually changed their
> manuals on the basis of
> this suit, just in case there were any other
> complete morons around
>
>
Here are this year's winners:
>
>
>
>
>
> 5th Place (tie): 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 owners of
> the store were
> understandably surprised at the verdict, considering
> the misbehaving little
> toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>
>
>
>
>
> 5th Place (tie): 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 5th Place (tie):
>
> 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, and 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 $500,000.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 neighbor's
> beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's
> fenced 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 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 (tailbone). 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 run away winner was Mrs. Merv
> Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
> Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new
> 32-foot 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 drivers
> seat to go into the back & 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 this. The jury awarded
> her $1,750,000 plus a
> new motor home. The company actually changed their
> manuals on the basis of
> this suit, just in case there were any other
> complete morons around
>
>
