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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Amos Date: 25 Jan 08 - 10:33 PM I have heard variations on #1 for decades. I am pretty sure it is bogus. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Jan 08 - 10:20 PM I'd almost consider putting my van on cruise control, making myself a sandwich, if I thought I (or my heirs) would appreciate $1.75 million. But they wouldn't, I'm sure. They'd much rather have me around to play them obscure songs two or three times a year. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Megan L Date: 25 Jan 08 - 06:22 PM When we picked up our new disability car in august we were warned about cruise control and case number one was quoted :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: katlaughing Date: 25 Jan 08 - 06:07 PM Welcome back, Ebbie! You've been missed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: KB in Iowa Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:14 PM Just for the record, the Stella of McDonald's coffee fame had her original settlement substantially reduced on appeal. And, FWIW, McDonald's lowered the temp of their coffee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:12 PM MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph near Haro in northern Spain, an Interior Ministry traffic report said. The speed limit was 55 mph. Iriondo was not wearing reflective clothing or a helmet, the ministry report said. As the sun had set when he crossed the path of Delgado's car from a side road, a regional court found both parties at fault and closed the case, the report said. Delgado, whose insurance company paid Iriondo's parents $48,500 in compensation for their son's life, filed a suit in late 2006 to recover $29,400 in damages to his car and car rental costs, the ministry traffic report said. "It's the only way I have to claim my money back," Delgado was quoted as saying by the newspaper El Pais, which first reported the story on Friday. El Pais said a ruling was expected next week. Iriondo's parents were shocked. "It's the final straw, a stab in the back," Iriondo's mother, Rosa Trinidad said, according to El Pais. "Before the lawsuit we thought the poor guy would find it hard to live the rest of his life with the thought of having caused our son's death. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Peace Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:09 PM DANG. Sorry. Y'all are right about #7. For some reason I thought #7 was about the lady who got scalded by coffee from a McDonalds. My apologies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Darowyn Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:05 PM There used to be a sticker on Suzuki personal watercraft (Maybe there still is) warning people not to operate the machine while naked, because , in the event of an accident, water may be forced into body orifices. Please somebody tell me that some naked fool gave themself a sixty mile per hour saltwater enema (and sued Suzuki)! Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: alanabit Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:36 PM Thanks folks. There is enough plumb foolishness in the world, without there being any necessity to invent more! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Ebbie Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:35 PM Sorry! I was gone longer than I realized. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Ebbie Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:34 PM Somewhere I have read about the 'Stella' awards, the intimation being that there ain't no such official critter. In the meantime here are: "Other examples of fabricated "true cases of lawsuit abuse": § Kathleen Robertson of Austin received $780,000 from a jury after she tripped over her own son in a furniture store. § Carl Truman, a 19-year-old in Los Angeles, was awarded more than $74,000 when his hand was run over by a neighbor. The neighbor did not see Truman, who was in the process of stealing his hubcaps. § Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pa., was given a $500,000 award after he was inadvertently trapped in the garage of a house that he was burglarizing. § A Mr. Grazinski won more than $1,750,000 and a new Winnebago after he put his new motor home on cruise control at 70 mph and then went into the back to fix himself some coffee — only to crash on the highway." http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/turley020105.asp (Hi Peace. I'm home again. Hurrah!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:33 PM Number SEVEN - is an Urban Legend.
Heard it 20 years ago from an insurance man.
Alanbite - you proably are on the "BUBBA-BOYS" e-mail list. At least you are on a forum devoted to Folkmusic/LORE.
"The Truth"
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/onlyinamerica.htm
Sincerely,
The "Darwin Awards" require verification from reputable news sources. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: GUEST,Snoozer at work Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:31 PM Here's the "real" Stella Awards. http://www.stellaawards.com I subscribe to the mailing list and get a new list of outrageous (and verified) law suits every month or so. Very enlightening (and sometimes infuriating). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: PoppaGator Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:26 PM I just checked Snopes, where this exact same list of so-called Stella awards are thoroughly debunked. I was given the impresion that all "Stellas" were a hoax, but from what KB reports, there apparantly real Stellas, which are undoubtedly plenty outrageous enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: KB in Iowa Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:23 PM I got these in an email acouple of years ago so I went to the Stella awards site to check. These are not true. The Stella site even lists these and say that the continued dissemination of this list is a dis-service. They say there are enough real ones that nobody should have to make any up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: Peace Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:19 PM Number seven is mostly true. |
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Subject: BS: Tell Me It Isn't True! From: alanabit Date: 25 Jan 08 - 02:19 PM A friend has just sent me a list of stories of alleged lawsuits in the US. I hope(and expect) that they will all turn out to be urban myths, because it beggars belief that even judges could be this stupid. Can anyone tell me where to look for proof to bury these myths? Here they are: 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 the 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. - the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy. Here are the Stella's for the past year: 7TH 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. 6TH PLACE: Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbour 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 neighbour's hubcaps. Go ahead, grab your head scratcher. 5TH PLACE: Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving a house he had just burgled 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 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 ... 4TH 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 neighbour'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. Grrrrr ... Scratch, scratch. 3RD 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? Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two more Stella's to go ... 2ND 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. 1ST PLACE: (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please ...) This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a 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 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 but 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. Somebody has made all this up, surely? |
