slip-and-fall case ruled against post office

Post by **Hmph** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:53 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/22/scotu ... index.html

post office held liable for damages for slipping and falling from packages left on her property.

now watch how this will affect how everyone gets packages and mail in the future

Silly Wabbit · Post by **Silly Wabbit** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:18 pm

Damned if you do, Damned if you don't situation.

thewiseonecommeth · Post by **thewiseonecommeth** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:58 am

Pathetic.

I believe in justice, but personally I feel with the courts actually awading loosers like this in so many frivilous civil lawsuits...all it is doing is conditioning people to realize

1. You can sue anyone for anything, even if you dont really have a case.
2. Its all about who you know and how much money you have to outlast the other person in court.
3. "How to be a victim" 101 and learn to not take responsibility for your own actions.

Lets face it...if she slipped and fell over packages left by her door, way I see it she was the retard who didn't pay attention to what she was doing.

These types of cases disgust me as much as loosers like that old woman years ago who sued McDonalds for spilling hot coffe in her own lap...claiming she wouldnt of done it IF there was a warning on the cup.

What kind of a fucking retard gets hot coffee and doesn't realize it may BURN YOU!..lol.

Who is worse: the people who file these stupid ass lawsuits, or the companies that give in and pay these loosers off hoping to avoid bad press or come out as the good guy?

I honestly can't decide, but I will say that if enough companies did not give in to cases like this...and enough judges stopped awarding people for BULLSHIT claims out of their own stupidity, it would send a signal to people.

Thoughts?

Silly Wabbit · Post by **Silly Wabbit** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:48 pm

I know what you mean. Did you get the email recently from Tamra about the Stella Awards. Some of the most ridiculous lawsuits ever. Unbelievable. Lawyers had the best seat & deal in the house.

I'll paste it from the email. Pretty unbelievable

ok obviously we're all in the wrong business! LOL

THE STELLA AWARDS

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's in New Mexico. That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.

Here are this year's winners:

5th Place (tie): 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 owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's own son.

5th Place (tie): 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 hubcaps.

5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, 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 homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place!

4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, 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 had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $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.

2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club 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.

1st Place: This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an Oklahoma University football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $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 around.

BUT LMFAO @ the top prize winner. Talk about a

. But now a rich dumbass.

cowgirl73 · Post by **cowgirl73** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:09 pm

LOL, reading these kinda makes you wonder what kind of water-head retards sat on the juries!

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:03 am

Itz da law

Decisions made from laws. 1 reason why folks who interpret laws made the most dough.

I cannot believe that jackass left the wheel to go make a sandwich.

If I was a juror I would have laughed myself right out of courtroom.

MsNikaPooh · Post by **MsNikaPooh** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:58 pm

ok oK OK i am going to go to my neighbors house and shoot his pitbull with a pellet gun how much do you think I can get if I survive better yet my boys will be set for life if it actually kills me or puts me in a coma. Damn our system is screwed up.