Robert Seeberger wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Seeberger, Mark" > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:27 PM > Subject: [Seebergers] Stella Awards > > It's time once again to consider the candidates for the 2003 Stella > Awards. The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled > coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. > > That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most uniquely successful > lawsuits in the United States for last year. Actually, joint awards > should be given to the plaintiff attorneys and the flaming idiots on the > juries > who awarded anything at all to these morons--who deserved NOTHING!!!! > > The following are this year's candidates: > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, 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. > > /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Um, a couple of points: 1) This was in the "Stella Awards" e-mail you passed on *last* year. 2) This one has been demonstrated false. I don't have a url handy, maybe there's something on snopes.com, but I believe that this particular one was responded to last year with a URL to something about its falsehood. If you want to look at the *real* 2002 winners, go to http://www.stellaawards.com/2002.html Oh, gee, I no sooner say that I don't have a URL for debunking purposes than I notice a link on that page I just pasted the URL for. Check out http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html ALL of the ones cited in Rob's e-mail, not just the one I quoted, are false! (And there's a bit on Stella Liebeck's actual case at http://www.stellaawards.com/stella.html .) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
