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 neighbor 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 neighbor's hubcaps.

 Go ahead, grab your head scratcher.

 5TH PLACE :

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , was leaving a house he had
just burglarized 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 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.

 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. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

 Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two more
 Stellas 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 on to 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 not 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.

 

 Are we, as a society, getting more stupid?    Ya think??!!

 More than a few of our judge's elevators don't go to the top floor either!
 WHAT'S EVEN SCARIER - THESE JURORS AND JUDGES MAY VOTE ON ELECTION DAY!

 

The "jury of our peers" should have been put on trial for rendering such rediculous verdicts and damages. prime examples of the need for tort reform!

Larry your right, with all the 1-800 sue me commercials on from lawyers these dumb heads have nothing to loose. They advertise to charge you nothing if you do not win. I wonder how much the  ers got after the  took there  share of the  money! Stupid  should go  them  selves!

 

Dang it!

ebo

Have a nice night

 

Ebo great point bout the scummy, bloodsucking vermon as well!