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Subject:Can You Top This?! From:Carol Gilbert <cgilbert -at- cal -dot- berkeley -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:53:45 -0700
This is the 1st place winner in the 2003 Stella Awards, named for the
lady who successfully sued Mac Donald's over the hot coffee between the
legs incident.
Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new Winnebago motor home. On his trip
home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, he set
the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver 's seat to go
into the back and make himself a cup of coffee.
Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr.
Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual
that he could not actually do this.
The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago motor home. The
company changed its manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case
there were other complete morons buying its recreation vehicles.
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