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Reminds me of this:

Winnebago winner?

"This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski , of Oklahoma City, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to 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."

2 posted on 04/29/2018 4:10:17 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

I’m quite sure that story’s an urban legend.


5 posted on 04/29/2018 4:14:50 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slavesf.)
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To: BBell

Wait, Mr Grazinski had a sex change after they got the Stella Award in the old e-mail? Damn, hate all these gender changes... And it was a cup of coffee in the old Stella award yarn...

(Yeah, fake urban legend, as old as cruise control is.)


35 posted on 04/29/2018 6:26:10 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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