The U.S. is Sue Happy
It is unbelievable the thing people sue for.For example the old lady who sued McDonald's for spilling coffee on herself.They didn't warn her ahead of time that it would all ready be hot.What has this country turned into.personally it is embarrassing to see all these people suing each other.Can you imagine what other countries are thinking when they are hearing about all this.They are probably thinking that these Americans are too stupid to understand certain instructions or everyday common sense.
- Crazy Cases
Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Okla., purchased a brand new Winnebago Motor home. On his trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner’s manual that he could not actually do this. The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago Motor home.
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 dog 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 a little provoked at the time as Williams, who had climbed over the fence into the yard, was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
1995, Robert Lee Brock sued himself for $5 million. He claimed that he had violated his own civil rights and religious beliefs by allowing himself to get drunk and commit crimes which landed him in the Indian Creek Correctional Center in Virginia, serving a 23 year sentence for grand larceny and breaking and entering. What could he possibly have to gain by suing himself? Since being in prison prevented him from having an income, he expected the state to pay.
