Well, DUH. (List/Discuss Stupid lawsuits)

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A 19 year old man from LA was awarded over $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbours car ran over his hand. The reason he got his hand run over was because the 19 year old was stealing the hubcaps and didn't see his neighbour was in the car!



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He deserves to have his hand run over...

It's karmas way of saying ' you've done something bad!'

My mum reckons that you shouldn't be able to sue if you're doing something illegal.

Thoughts?

I don't mind.

rosered, it's your turn to post a stupid lawsuit/

How's this?



Birds of a Feather Sue Together.


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The California Supreme Court in August of 2002 made it more difficult for bystanders to sue physicians for emotional distress.

The case, Bird v. Saenz, stemmed from a Nov. 30, 1994, incident in Los Angeles County hospital.

On that day, Janice Bird, the adult daughter of Nita Bird, brought her mother to the hospital for outpatient surgery.

About an hour to 90 minutes into the surgery, something went wrong with the procedure. About that same time, one of Bird's sisters arrived at the hospital. The two daughters then witnessed doctors rushing their mother to emergency surgery.

According to court papers, Janice Bird saw her mother "being rushed down the hallway." Nita Bird was bright blue and her bed was on an angle so that her head was almost touching the ground.

The daughters sued, NOT for malpractice, but because they had to witness the incident. These women sued the doctors and the hospital -- the same doctors who were rushing to assist their mother -- for causing emotional distress to THEM.

The case went all the way to the California Supreme Court, where the court ruled against the girls.

Source: AmedNews.com, Septemeber 2, 2002, "Women 'distressed' by seeing doctors rush to help mom."

A German bank robber was arrested recently after a teller realized the robber was hard of hearing and tripped an alarm. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the robber is now suing the bank for exploiting his disability.

A woman was treated by a psychiatrist from March to November 1986, became romantically involved with him, and subsequently married him in October of 1989. After more than five years of marriage they divorced in 1995, at which time the woman sued her ex-husband for psychiatric malpractice and negligence claiming that the romantic or sexual relationship between them started before the formal psychiatric treatment ended. She contended that her ex-husband had breached the standard of care as a psychiatrist by becoming romantically involved with her, and sought general, special and punitive damages.

A woman in Israel is suing a TV station and its weatherman for $1,000 after he predicted a sunny day and it rained. The woman claims the forecast caused her to leave home lightly dressed. As a result, she caught the flu, missed 4 days of work, spent $38 on medication and suffered stress.

A Los Angeles attorney sued another attorney who had hung a cardboard tombstone in his office that read, "R.I.P./Jerry Garcia (a few too many parties perhaps?)." The plaintiff lawyer, a Garcia groupie, alleged this joke caused him "humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional and physical distress" after seeing the sign. He further added that he had suffered injury to his mind and body (specifics were not listed in the suit).


A woman was playing golf and hit a shot which ricocheted off railroad tracks that run through the course. The ball hit her in the nose and she won $40,000 because the golf course had a "free lift" rule. (This allows golfers to toss balls which land near the rails to the other side.) The woman alleged that because the course allowed a free lift, they were, in effect, acknowledging the rails to be a hazard.

This definitely THE place to read about people sueing other people for the DUMBEST stuff.

EDIT: A lady called Mrs Grazinski from Oklahoma was pleased with her brand new 32 foot Winnebago. She put the cruise control on, like you do. but then went into the back to make a cup of tea. Unsurprisingly the vehicle veered off the road and crashed. She successfully sued Winnebago because they didn't explain specifically in the manual that the cruise control was not to be considered as a replacement for the driver! She was awarded over $1,500,000 plus got a new motor home thrown in.

I think we should round up all the lawyers who fight these stupid cases.........


and sue THEM for distressing US!


LOL

Criminals should be banned from suing for any damages caused in the process of committing a crime!! !! !

Ads on television make it easier for people to sue over stupid stuff like this!

A New Yorker tripped on a broken paving slab, and then sued the city for damages. He won his case.

The kicker? He was the guy in charge of keeping the paving in good condition. So he got money for not doing his job properly.