As the actual Stella Award site points out, these are all fabricated stories that have been circulated in urban legend chain mails for well over a decade now. They were debunked years ago and are not from publishers of the actual Stella Awards.
7 posted on 01/14/2011 9:41:36 AM PST by The Pack Knight
(Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
While indeed these may be false, it wouldn’t be hard to believe that an idiot jury egged on by soul-less lawyers would make judgements such as these.
By the way, “Snopes” has been proven wrong on more than one occasion.
12 posted on 01/14/2011 10:28:43 AM PST by Maverick68