Stella Award 2004 går til....

[pebbe]

Stella Awards er en pris som går til de mest hårreisende og latterlige søksmålene i USA Prisen er oppkalt etter Stella Liebeck som ble tilkjent en høy erstatning av McDonald's etter å ha sølt varm kaffe i fanget sitt.

 

Mange saker som vi får høre om er falske, disse ser du Her.

 

Årets vinnere, på engelsk:

 

THE RUNNERS UP FOR THE 2004 TRUE STELLA AWARDS ARE:

 

#6: The Tribune Co. of Chicago, Ill. The newspaper chain owns several

newspapers, as well as the Chicago Cubs baseball team. One of its

newspaper carriers was Mark Guthrie, 43, of Connecticut. One of its

ball players was Mark Guthrie, 38, of Illinois. The company's payroll

department mixed the two up, putting the ballplayer's paycheck into

the paper carrier's bank account. The carrier allowed them to take

back 90 percent of the improperly paid salary, and said they could

have the rest after they gave him a full accounting to ensure he not

only got his own pay, but wouldn't have any tax problems for being

paid $300,000(!) extra. The Tribune Co., rather than provide that

reasonable assurance, instead sued him for the rest of the money.

 

#5: "High Tech" retailer Sharper Image sells a lot of its "Ionic Breeze"

air filters. As part of a comparative review of many air filters,

Consumer Reports magazine found the "Ionic" unit was the worst

performer. SI complained, saying it didn't do a "fair" test. CU asked

what sort of test should be done, but SI never replied -- until it

sued CU. A federal judge ruled the suit not only had no merit, but was

actually an illegal attempt to squelch public discussion. SI was

ordered to pay CU $400,000 to cover its legal defense costs.

 

#4: Edith Morgan, mother of Kansas City Chiefs football star Derrick

Thomas, who died after being thrown from his SUV in a crash while

speeding in a snowstorm. Morgan said Thomas's neck was broken because

the SUV's roof collapsed a few inches -- not from rolling down the

highway because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt -- and sued General

Motors. Her lawyer begged jurors to award more than $100 million in

damages, perhaps more -- he "did not want to put an upper limit on

it." GM pointed out that Thomas's oversize SUV was exempt from federal

roof crush standards, yet it met them anyway. The jury sent a message:

of that $100 million, it awarded Morgan ...nothing.

 

#3: Tanisha Torres of Wyndanch, N.Y. The woman sued Radio Shack for

misspelling her town as "Crimedanch" on her cell phone bill. She

didn't even ask them to change it; she just sued. "I'm not a

criminal," she whined. "My son plays on the high school football

team." Yeah, that makes sense. The name "Crimedanch" is a common joke;

police in the area confirm it's a high-crime area. Still, Torres

claimed she suffered "outrage" and "embarrassment" at having to see

that spelling on her private phone bill. The suit seeks unspecified

damages.

 

#2: Homecomings Financial, a subsidiary of GMAC Financial Services, which

is a division of General Motors. The finance company accepted a change

of address notice from identity thieves for the account belonging to

Robert and Suzanne Korinke. The thieves ran up a $142,000 debt, and

the Korinkes notified Homecomings of the fraud the moment they

discovered it. Homecomings sued them two years later, saying the

couple's "negligence" is what "caused the injury to Homecomings," not

the fact that the company accepted a change of address from fraudsters

-- and then gave them all the money they could drain. The victims got

the company to drop the suit, which demanded $74,000 plus attorney's

fees, after shelling out $5,000 in legal fees -- an outcome the

couple's lawyer called "really lucky".

 

AND THE WINNER of the 2004 Stella Award: Mary Ubaudi of Madison County,

Ill. Ubaudi was a passenger in a car that got into a wreck. She put

most of the blame on the deepest pocket available: Mazda Motors, who

made the car she was riding in. Ubaudi demands "in excess of $150,000"

from the automaker, claiming it "failed to provide instructions

regarding the safe and proper use of a seatbelt." One hopes Mazda's

attorneys make her swear in court that she has never before worn a

seatbelt, has never flown on an airliner, and that she's too stupid to

figure out how to fasten a seatbelt.

Endret 18. mars 2005 av pebbe

[Dr.Ittsekk]

Legger til en liten sak jeg også.

[Demonfudge]

@ den siste: At det går ann

[Midnight_walker]

Har hørt om en (i Amerika seff) som saksøkte MacDonalds fordi ho blei feit av å spise der (ho spiste der hver dag)... Grunnen var at det ikke stod noen advarsel noen steder at man kunne bli feit av å spise maten!! :!: :!: :!:

 

 

Ho vant!!

Endret 19. mars 2005 av midnight_walker

[Smeltelim]

HAHAHA! Toy Yoda

[MyBigMouth]

En av de dummeste jeg har hørt var da en amerikansk mor saksøkte en amerikansk matkjede.

Dette skjedde etter av at hun hadde blitt påkjørt av en handlevogn og brukket beinet.....nå kan vi jo gjette tre ganger hvem som styrte vognen?....jo det var sønnen....

 

En annen er kanskje den med dama som puttet katten sin i mikron for å tørke den...katten døde og det endte i et søksmå mot mikrobølgeovn fabrikanten fordi det ikke sto i bruksanvisningen at katter kunne tørkes i de!

[pebbe]

Rxj0n: Slike saker du har skrevet der er falske, jeg har linket til slike saker i første post.