American Legal System
Amish_kid
01-27-2003, 12:24 PM
haha man you guys really need to straighten out some of this shit its just too funny
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, TX, was awarded $780,000 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.
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A 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 hub caps.
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Terrence Dickson of Bristol, PA, 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 owner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
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Jerry Williams of Little Rock, AR, 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 was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
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A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster $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.
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Kara Walton of Claymont, DE, successfully sued the owner of a nightclub 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.
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Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the R.V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded him $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 buying their recreation vehicles
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, TX, was awarded $780,000 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.
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A 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 hub caps.
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Terrence Dickson of Bristol, PA, 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 owner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
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Jerry Williams of Little Rock, AR, 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 was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
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A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster $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.
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Kara Walton of Claymont, DE, successfully sued the owner of a nightclub 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.
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Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the R.V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded him $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 buying their recreation vehicles
Vyacheslav
01-27-2003, 12:49 PM
Rofl, yeh their rules dont make much sense some time :hehehe:
Graphik Styles
01-27-2003, 01:08 PM
thats the stupidest shit i ever heard...........man if i was the judge i woulda told them to get the fuck outta my courtroom....
Street Sweeper
01-27-2003, 01:14 PM
ROTL!!! that is some funny stuff.....makes me wana sue someone for being a moron...:rolleyes:
YogsVR4
01-27-2003, 01:39 PM
Put the liberals on the courts and bizzare shit starts coming down
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KatWoman
01-27-2003, 01:40 PM
America: Land of Litigation :rolleyes:
taranaki
01-27-2003, 03:04 PM
Hopefully,these are exceptional cases rather than the norm.Given the sheer volume of stuff that gets dragged through the U.S. court system,there's always going to be instances of the wrong case coming before the wrong jury with the wrong judge at the wrong time.Makes me glad that we don't have this 'lawsuit first,think later' mentality in NZ.
Vyacheslav
01-27-2003, 06:06 PM
Originally posted by taranaki
Hopefully,these are exceptional cases rather than the norm.Given the sheer volume of stuff that gets dragged through the U.S. court system,there's always going to be instances of the wrong case coming before the wrong jury with the wrong judge at the wrong time.Makes me glad that we don't have this 'lawsuit first,think later' mentality in NZ.
Man o man. I just watch people in wal mart and future shop, most of the things they buy get returned. Then they buy it again. Isnt this kinda stupid? Government sometimes makes me want to leave back to russia, even if its shity in there. I was driving at night, very dark area, and plus it was raining. Some guy jumped out in the intersection and i ofcourse was very nice and hit the brakes. He wrote down my license plate number, and went to the court. I didnt even touch him. He said it was a moral damage. What what damage? Morons have it since their first day of life!
Hopefully,these are exceptional cases rather than the norm.Given the sheer volume of stuff that gets dragged through the U.S. court system,there's always going to be instances of the wrong case coming before the wrong jury with the wrong judge at the wrong time.Makes me glad that we don't have this 'lawsuit first,think later' mentality in NZ.
Man o man. I just watch people in wal mart and future shop, most of the things they buy get returned. Then they buy it again. Isnt this kinda stupid? Government sometimes makes me want to leave back to russia, even if its shity in there. I was driving at night, very dark area, and plus it was raining. Some guy jumped out in the intersection and i ofcourse was very nice and hit the brakes. He wrote down my license plate number, and went to the court. I didnt even touch him. He said it was a moral damage. What what damage? Morons have it since their first day of life!
SFF900
01-27-2003, 09:16 PM
I say judge judy for supreme court! She would have laughed at all those people, made them feel stupid and sent them home with jack shit.
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