ONLY IN POLITICALLY CORRECT AMERICA:

[chiller]

I hope this is a joke...but you can't tell anymore.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Two questions; how many of these awards were upheld on appeal and when are we going to allow damages for filing frivolous lawsuits preferably collected from the ambulance chaser who acts as an attorney?

[expatpat]

I believe that most of these are urban legends (I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is).

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

It's almost enough to make you want to pack up and leave.

Or pick up the phone and call an attorney. (Yeah, I do have a twinge in my lower back, now that you mention it.)

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'm tellin' you, these people are A-L-L Democratic voters.

[Rummyfan]

But go where? From what I read here on FR Australia and Canada are even worse.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But go where?

Hmmm. Good question.

I guess I'll be going down to my attorney's office. I mean...I'm all packed. What the hell.

[Just another Joe]

Go to the boonies in the Philippines.
All you have to worry about there is the Abu Sayaf.

[rovenstinez]

You have believed a lie.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.htm
Sounds good, but's tis not true

[per loin]

Please check with www.snopes.com before posting these already discredited urban legends. Hint: if you get email that sounds unbelievable, don't believe it.

[MissAmericanPie]

My uncle, sitting in his den, looked out the window in time to see a man all dressed in black hop over his fence and into his back yard. Coming face to face the guy fled only to be nabbed by my 6'7 Uncle in the front yard. He held him for the police, the guy had a rap sheet as long as your leg for breaking and entering, etc.

He sued my Uncle for public embrassment/humiliation and won. So I don't have a problem believing any of these above cases.

[saminfl]

I remember that in the late 1970's, a woman in San Franciso was awarded $500,000 because a streetcar accident had turned her into a nymphomaniac.

[furball4paws]

So, you subscribe to the "Dumb Democrat" voter? Smacks of the Fl recount.

[furball4paws]

Boonies - boondock(s). Tagalog for mountain. One of the few Filipino words in the American language. Nice choice of words, but there's no boondocks in the vicinity of Abu Sayyef, they don't speak Tagalog. I always like a good chuckle.

[TopQuark]

Why don't you include the source for all these, especially when you post such outrageous stuff?

[IncredibleHulk]

I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is

In 1978, it was an Iranian exchange student pilot at NAS Pensacola who took his conversion van out on the coast highway. He was understandably confused because it worked in his airplane. I never trained with any of the Iranians but if they were half as dumb as the Kuwaitis in my classes, I'll believe anything.

[redheadtoo]

I believe that most of these are urban legends (I'm pretty sure the Winnebago story is).

The Winnebago story was the winner of a Darwin Award a few years ago. The story, as I originally heard it, was that a man and his wife were traveling in their RV. The husband became tired so his wife told him to get some sleep while she drove. But she became sleepy herself. So, she put the RV on cruise control and went back to make herself a cup of coffee earning herself a very dubious prize.

[webber]

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THESE ARE ACTUAL COURT DECISIONS. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THESE CASES WERE OVERTURNED THROUGH APPEALS OR NOT, HOWEVER.

[webber]

Thank You for the headsup. I received this from a neighbor who is not easily fooled, but I guess you can fool all of the people some of the time.