Wacky Warning Labels

[scuvnut]

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards"! For those unfamiliar
with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who
spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in
New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the
lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.
Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?


That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and
verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch
your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

Here are the Stellas for the past year:


7TH PLACE :

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 store owners were understandably surprised
by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

6TH PLACE :

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical
expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. 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 :

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had
just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the
automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the
garage door to
open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting
the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to
sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag
of dry dog
food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue Mental
Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson
$500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.


4TH PLACE :

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the
Stellas when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being
bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the
beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get
as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have
been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed
over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet
gun.


3RD PLACE :

Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a
jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she
slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the
soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend
30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people
being responsible for their own actions?


2ND PLACE :

Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a
nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover
charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah,
plus dental expenses. Go figure.


1ST PLACE : (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please)

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv
Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot
Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game,
having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and
calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make
herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway,
crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued
Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't
actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The
Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new
motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this
suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a
motor home.

[Defective]

Nothing much "annual" about that list...been seeing the same list for years...

Also note...

[wedge40]

Just got back from purchasing some clevis pins.
The label reads as follows.

For lifting
clevis pin is not.

Them wacky Chinese..

Wedge

[patrick_g]

scuvnut, Maybe you should try Urban Legends Reference Pages

"The truth is out there"... about the "AWARDS"

Sorry but it is a hoax. The whole thing is bogus.

Pat

[N80]

Originally Posted by wedge40

Just got back from purchasing some clevis pins.
The label reads as follows.

For lifting
clevis pin is not.

Wedge

Sounds like Yoda. The Force be with you may it be.

[3RRL]

Here's one that is really not that wacky...

[JSharp]

Here's one I like -

[Iron Horse]

Notice in Chinese manual about a valve being not well understood . "Very ununderstood"

[Iron Horse]

Originally Posted by 3RRL

Here's one that is really not that wacky...

I like that ..... We have a sewrage company in our town who has 3 trucks , He has "Sweet Pee" on 1 and "Buisness Stinks" on 1 and "Mister Whiffy" on the other , his slogan is " We are number 1 in the number 2 buisness"

[MarEng]

Obituary for Mr. Common Sense

This was published in a monthly mailer I get. Seems to fit here.