USA or, how lawyers put their pockets in it! hallucinating
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The winners of the 2005 STELLA Awards have just been announced. This year's harvest is particularly gratinated. We remind you that the Stella Awards take their name from Stella Liebeck, this 81 year old lady who spilled coffee on her and who subsequently sued MacDonalds, whom she won!
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This resounding case inspired the creation of the Stella Awards which
reward America's most grotesque and ridiculous winning trials.
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6th place
Carl Truman, a 19-year-old from Los Angeles, California, was awarded $ 74 in compensation for medical expenses after his neighbor rolled his hand over his Honda Accord.
Apparently Mr. Truman didn't realize there was someone behind the wheel when he started trying to steal the hubcaps?
5th place
Terrence Dickson from Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving the house he was coming
to burglar out of the garage. But he failed to open the garage door, the automatic control system of which was defective.
He also could not return to the house because the door to
communication that he had drawn behind him had closed with a
automatic latch. The family who lived in the house having left in
on vacation, he was stranded in the garage for eight days. He survived on a carton of Pepsi bottles and a bag of dog food that he found there. He lodged a complaint against the house's insurance company alleging that the situation had placed him in a state of distress
psychological. The jury awarded him $ 500.
4th place
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas received $ 14 in
compensation after being bitten in the buttocks by the dog of his neighbor, a Beagle. The dog was tied to a chain and the garden was fenced.
The sum awarded was less than that requested because it was estimated that the Beagle had been somewhat provoked: indeed Mr Williams had jumped over the fence in the garden of his neighbor and had shot the dog several times with a plastic ball gun.
3th place
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay $ 113 to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania after she broke her tailbone after slipping into a puddle of spilled soft drink.
If the drink was on the ground, it's because Miss Carson had it
herself thrown in the face of her friend thirty seconds earlier during an argument.
2th place
Kara Walon of Claymont, Delaware, sued a nightclub near her home after falling from the washroom window, breaking her front teeth. This happened while she was trying to get out of the nightclub ladies' bathroom window to avoid paying the $ 3,50 entry fee. She was awarded $ 12 and reimbursed for her dental expenses.
First place
And the big winner of the year is Mr. Merv Grazinski from Oklahoma City. Mr. Grazinski bought a brand new Winnebago motor home. Coming home after a football match, he took the highway, put the vehicle in automatic speed at 100 km / h and quietly left the wheel to go and have coffee in the rear cabin. Not surprisingly, the vehicle deviated from its course, left the road and rolled over. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago on the grounds that there was nothing in the owner's manual to indicate that it was dangerous to leave the wheel. The jury awarded him 1 dollars (one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars !!!) and a brand new Winnebago. The company has since changed the manuals for its vehicles, in case another of their customers is a moron of the same kind!
and we meanwhile scratch for a living
what are we waiting to do the same, we are too stupid or too honest to be !!!
remains more than finding the pigeons,