The 2007
Stella Awards
*From an e-mail I
received…
It's time again for
the annual 'Stella Awards'! 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
That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in
the
Here are the Stella’s for the past year:
7 TH 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.
Carl Truman, 19, of
Go ahead, grab your head scratcher.
Terrence Dickson, of
Keep scratching. There are more...
4 TH 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.
Grrrrr ... Scratch, scratch.
Third place goes to Amber Carson of
Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two more Stella’s to
go…
Kara Walton, of
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of
Are we, as a society, getting more stupid...?
OK, OK… for the two
of you who have your hands up waiting to be called on because you have been
doing your homework like good little doobies, you may put them back down while
I bring the rest of the class up to speed with the following note…
Gene’s note: Well, we may not be getting more stupid but
we’re still consistently coming close to pegging the needle on the gullible
meter. Yes, there are “Stella Awards” (go
here… http://www.stellaawards.com/
), but those above aren’t the ones for 2007.
Even though they are interesting and tend to rattle our “how stupid can
we get” chains, they are all the result of creative writing. (Translation – they ain’t true…) Check here…
http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html and here…
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
Hmmmm? Oh, yeah.
The real 2007 Stella Awards can be found here…
http://www.stellaawards.com/2007.html
… Another good
reminder not to believe everything we read in e-mails or find on the Internet,
huh? OK, everybody go back to work now…
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