[EBUCK]

Don't know how much of this is true but I'mm gonna tyr and track down some of the names to verify.

EBUCK

[Nick Thimmesch]

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[bmwcyle]

8. Bill Clinton went from a poor family and a $35,000.00 government job to owning several million dollar homes. Taking million dollar book advances without a word on paper.

[EBUCK]

Well, it's a proven fake..

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/onlyinamerica.htm

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.htm

Some real ones from snopes though...

In March 1995, a San Diego man unsuccessfully attempted to sue the city and Jack Murphy Stadium for $5.4 million over something than can only be described as a wee problem -- Robert Glaser claimed the stadium's unisex bathroom policy at a Billy Joel and Elton John concert caused him embarrassment and emotional distress thanks to the sight of a woman using a urinal in front of him. He subsequently tried "six or seven" other bathrooms in the stadium only to find women in all of them. He asserted he "had to hold it in for four hours" because he was too embarrassed to share the public bathrooms with women.

A San Carlos, California, man is suing the Escondido Public Library for $1.5 million. His dog, a 50-pound Labrador mix, was attacked by the library's 12-pound feline mascot, L.C., (also known as Library Cat).

In 1994, a student at the University of Idaho unsuccessfully sued that institution over his fall from a third-floor dorm window. He'd been mooning other students when the window gave way. It was contended the University failed to provide a safe environment for students or to properly warn them of the dangers inherent to upper-story windows.

In 1993, McDonald's was unsuccessfully sued over a car accident in New Jersey. While driving, a man who had placed a milkshake between his legs, leaned over to reach into his bag of food and squeezed the milkshake container in the process. When the lid popped off and spilled half the drink in his lap, this driver became distracted and ran into another man's car. That man in turn tried to sue McDonald's for causing the accident, saying the restaurant should have cautioned the man who had hit him against eating while driving.

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EBUCK

[moyden]

I think these are made up. Put "Merv Grazinski" in Google and you will find dozens of links to this same list, some in German. But no independent reference.

Besides, what are the odds that someone named "Merv Grazinski" can be found in Oklahoma?

[Slyfox]

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle

I have a son who broke a wrist and a son who broke a foot this summer. You mean I, too, could be a millionaire?

[Houmatt]

For starters, this thing is at least a year old.

For another, true or not, things like this happen all the time. There are many verifable stories where complete, slack-jawed neanderthals have done things too terrifyingly dumb to mention, and lawsuits are filed because common sense and personal responsibility are flat out dead and buried in this country.

And we have Stella Liebeck to thank for it.

[L.N. Smithee]

From the actual Stella Awards site (http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html):

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May it please the court: Many stories are going around the 'net saying they are "The Stella Awards". Many of these stories are false, made-up, or (sometimes) true stories with false elements added to them. It makes no sense to use false examples of real problems when there are so many true examples that illustrate the actual problem.

The most-common e-mail example is the following, which the clerk has marked "Exhibit A". We've received many, many copies of it over the last few years, and no doubt you have too. You'll see what we mean by "bogus".

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[AxelPaulsenJr]

I question the last one, sounds like an old joke we used to tell about the Iranian who bought the winnebago and thought that the cruise control was an automatic pilot.

[jjm2111]

All false.

[rogue yam]

Yeah, I definitely wasn't buying the one about the guy stuck in the garage. Who would sit there for eight days eating dog food, crapping in the corner, and waiting to get busted, instead of just breaking down the door?