ONLY IN POLITICALLY CORRECT AMERICA:

[webber]

ONLY IN POLITICALLY CORRECT AMERICA

When Political Correctness takes control of the citizens and the Judicial System of America, then anything is possible. These are actual court cases and the Juries' verdicts. Read them below:

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1. 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.

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2. 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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3. 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 not functioning.  He couldn't reenter 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.

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4. Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkan sas, 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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5. A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her 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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6. 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.

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   AND THIS YEAR'S FAVORITE:

7. Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 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 drivers 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 recreational vehicles.

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[chiller]

I hope this is a joke...but you can't tell anymore.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Two questions; how many of these awards were upheld on appeal and when are we going to allow damages for filing frivolous lawsuits preferably collected from the ambulance chaser who acts as an attorney?

[expatpat]

I believe that most of these are urban legends (I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is).

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

It's almost enough to make you want to pack up and leave.

Or pick up the phone and call an attorney. (Yeah, I do have a twinge in my lower back, now that you mention it.)

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'm tellin' you, these people are A-L-L Democratic voters.

[Rummyfan]

But go where? From what I read here on FR Australia and Canada are even worse.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But go where?

Hmmm. Good question.

I guess I'll be going down to my attorney's office. I mean...I'm all packed. What the hell.

[Just another Joe]

Go to the boonies in the Philippines.
All you have to worry about there is the Abu Sayaf.

[rovenstinez]

You have believed a lie.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.htm
Sounds good, but's tis not true

[per loin]

Please check with www.snopes.com before posting these already discredited urban legends. Hint: if you get email that sounds unbelievable, don't believe it.

[MissAmericanPie]

My uncle, sitting in his den, looked out the window in time to see a man all dressed in black hop over his fence and into his back yard. Coming face to face the guy fled only to be nabbed by my 6'7 Uncle in the front yard. He held him for the police, the guy had a rap sheet as long as your leg for breaking and entering, etc.

He sued my Uncle for public embrassment/humiliation and won. So I don't have a problem believing any of these above cases.

[saminfl]

I remember that in the late 1970's, a woman in San Franciso was awarded $500,000 because a streetcar accident had turned her into a nymphomaniac.

[furball4paws]

So, you subscribe to the "Dumb Democrat" voter? Smacks of the Fl recount.

[furball4paws]

Boonies - boondock(s). Tagalog for mountain. One of the few Filipino words in the American language. Nice choice of words, but there's no boondocks in the vicinity of Abu Sayyef, they don't speak Tagalog. I always like a good chuckle.

[TopQuark]

Why don't you include the source for all these, especially when you post such outrageous stuff?

[IncredibleHulk]

I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is

In 1978, it was an Iranian exchange student pilot at NAS Pensacola who took his conversion van out on the coast highway. He was understandably confused because it worked in his airplane. I never trained with any of the Iranians but if they were half as dumb as the Kuwaitis in my classes, I'll believe anything.

[redheadtoo]

I believe that most of these are urban legends (I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is).

The Winnebago story was the winner of a Darwin Award a few years ago. The story, as I originally heard it, was that a man and his wife were traveling in their RV. The husband became tired so his wife told him to get some sleep while she drove. But she became sleepy herself. So, she put the RV on cruise control and went back to make herself a cup of coffee earning herself a very dubious prize.

[webber]

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THESE ARE ACTUAL COURT DECISIONS. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THESE CASES WERE OVERTURNED THROUGH APPEALS OR NOT, HOWEVER.

[webber]

Thank You for the headsup. I received this from a neighbor who is not easily fooled, but I guess you can fool all of the people some of the time.