frivolous Lawsuits

[heartless619]

A little to much Booty

 

 

 

Meredith Berkman, seeking $50 million, filed one of the first anti-fat lawsuits against the manufacturer of a snack food named Pirate's Booty. It looks like eating too much Pirate's Booty had added too much booty to Ms. Berkman's booty.

 

 

 

In December, 2001, the Good Housekeeping Institute tested Pirate's Booty, which is basically flavored puffed rice, and found that it contained 147 calories and 8.5 grams of fat, while its label said it contained only 120 calories and 2.5 grams of fat.

 

 

 

The manufacturer, Robert's American Gourmet Foods (a subsidiary of Keystone Foods), blamed the problem on a change in its manufacturing process and immediately recalled the product from store shelves.

 

 

 

Nearly four months after the recall, Berkman filed a $50 million class-action lawsuit against Robert's Foods, claiming "emotional distress" and "weight gain...mental anguish, outrage and indignation." The complaint claims to represent all consumers who ruined their diets and had to spend more time at the gym because they ate mislabeled Pirate's Booty.

 

 

 

-this just goes to show what people are comming to these days....

[tomdavies90]

hahaha 50 million thats a bit too much doesnt she think...idiot...hey love, you only need 30 thousand for liposuction, take 500k and be done with it...

[heartless619]

Busted up side the Head!!

 

 

 

Bennie Casson filed a lawsuit in Belleville, Ill., against PT's Show Club for its negligence in allowing a stripper to "slam" her breasts into his "neck and head region" as he watched her, a little too close to the stage.

 

 

 

Casson claims in his lawsuit that dancer Susan Sykes (aka "Busty Heart"), who claims to have show business's biggest chest at 88 inches, gave him a "bruised, contused, lacerated" neck.

 

 

 

Carson has filed suit claiming that the "gifted" performer slammed her breasts into his head and neck, causing "emotional distress, mental anguish and indignity."

 

 

 

The $200,000 lawsuit states that Carson was "bruised, contused, lacerated and made sore" by Heart's breasts, which reportedly weigh in at 40 pounds apiece.

 

 

 

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 

 

-lmao! how can this guy even sue them...going to a strip club..most guys would love that...what a -CAT- <--if ya know what i meen

[heartless619]

Slippery when wet? O rly?

 

 

 

A former inmate at the Salt Lake County jail has lost an appeal that claimed a slippery shower floor at the jail was so dangerous that it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

 

 

 

Stephen Flandro's claim that his Eight Amendment rights were violated when he slipped and fell in the shower was tossed out by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on December 3, 2002.

 

 

 

This case didn't measure up, the three-judge appeals panel wrote. "Slippery shower floors constitute a daily risk faced by the public at large," the ruling says. "Slippery floors do not violate the Eighth Amendment."

 

 

 

Good call by these judges.

 

 

 

Now what can we do about those stupid 'slip on banana peels and grapes in the supermarket' lawsuits?

 

 

 

-lmao man this guy deserved to slip is all i can say..everyone knows its slippery when wet...maybe if he wasnt running from the other inmates because he DROPPED the soap...Dang that powder soap...

[StrOwez]

Carson has filed suit claiming that the "gifted" performer slammed her breasts into his head and neck, causing "emotional distress, mental anguish and indignity."

 

 

 

That woman should be locked away behind bars!

 

Imagine a blind man walking into the strip club to get a drink of water, when unsuspectingly two huge objects crush his head and neck hahahaha

[Led-Zeppelin]

I'm going to sue the beer companies on account of all the ugly woman I've slept with. :-X

[warren211]

I heard once about a guy who worked for his community in moving snow off the roads with a truck. He himself crashed his truck into his own car. he then sued the city that he worked for and won the lawsuit. He won 50 grand for smashing his own car :XD: unsurprisingly, he was fired the next day. :D

[Kashi]

I believe one man actually sued Nintendo, after getting horrible salmonella from eating

 

raw ground beef he found on the street. Apparently he thought it would restore his HP ...

 

 

 

But he ended up in a coma for a month or something. :?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember one man sued God when his entire life went to [cabbage] overnight. Bunch of bad stuff

 

happened to him all at once, and he thought God was harassing him, so he sued God himself.

 

 

 

I think God lost the lawsuit for failure to appear in court?

 

 

 

 

 

It's entirely possible my brain made both of these up, I dunno'. :?

[WutangFlu]

I'm going to sue the beer companies on account of all the ugly woman I've slept with. :-X

 

 

 

so true...

[The_Dragon_Reborn]

I'm going to sue the beer companies on account of all the ugly woman I've slept with. :-X

 

 

 

Good thinking!

[StrOwez]

Uh I've heard a guy left his caravan on cruse control and because he was so :wall: he thought the car would drive itself.. and he went in the back to get some food...the car crashed and he sued the company for not stating in the manual that at cruse control the driver had to stand by the steering wheel, he won the case.

 

 

 

Thinking about this snow maybe he actually crashed his car himself but saw a loop whole in the system and decided to sue.. hm.. !!

[crimsonking]

Uh I've heard a guy left his caravan on cruse control and because he was so :wall: he thought the car would drive itself.. and he went in the back to get some food...the car crashed and he sued the company for not stating in the manual that at cruse control the driver had to stand by the steering wheel, he won the case.

 

 

 

Thinking about this snow maybe he actually crashed his car himself but saw a loop whole in the system and decided to sue.. hm.. !!

 

 

 

I heard about that one too.

 

 

 

I've heard about so many of these types of cases its almost sickening, but I'm too lazy to post them at the moment lol.

[falco513]

On April 28, hotel workers who had been trying to track down the

 

source of a foul odour discovered Robert's body inside a crawl space

 

containing air conditioning equipment. The police investigation

 

determined that Robert had crawled into the space, where the equipment's

 

moving parts first cut his arm open, then pinned him. He apparently

 

removed his pants to use them as a tourniquet for his arm, but it was not

 

enough, and he bled to death. His blood alcohol content was more than

 

twice the legal limit for driving at the time, though the exact count

 

wasn't reported.

 

 

 

It's a tragedy, to be sure. To compound the tragedy, in January 2007

 

the Hornbecks sued the hotel demanding $10 million over their son's

 

death, though from all appearances the accident was nobody's fault but

 

his.

 

 

 

The lawsuit alleges that "the defendants had a duty to maintain a safe

 

area in its hotel, and to place appropriate warning signs and maintain

 

locks on doors that led to its electric and air conditioning units." Yet

 

when Robert's body was found, Savannah police spokesman Mike Wilkins

 

pointed out, the service panel in question "had a big sign warning of

 

danger from mechanical parts inside." It's difficult to imagine what more

 

warning anyone could hope for.

 

 

 

The police report also says that to enter this crawl space, Robert had

 

to enter a mezzanine between the first and second floors, climb a metal

 

staircase in the hotel's maintenance area, and crouch to enter. In fact

 

it's such a tight space that the police had to call in Savannah Fire and

 

Emergency Services because of their training in difficult extrications.

 

This isn't just another public area of the hotel where you could

 

innocently wander off and find yourself trapped; Robert couldn't do it

 

working pretty hard at it.

 

 

 

But even if you could argue that the hotel was "a little bit"

 

responsible for what happened, the Hornbecks still cannot recover.

 

Georgia is a "modified comparative negligence" state, which means that a

 

plaintiff can only recover for his injuries if the defendant is found to

 

be more than 50 percent responsible. If the plaintiff is more than 50

 

percent responsible, he cannot recover any damages -- and it is very

 

difficult to read the facts of this case and imagine any jury finding

 

that Army Spc. Robert Hornbeck was not largely responsible for his own

 

death, however tragic.

 

 

 

So why are they suing?

 

 

 

Sometimes, a lawsuit isn't about collecting money; sometimes it's

 

about using the discovery process to learn the truth of what happened.

 

Perhaps that was the Hornbecks' motivaion here. But in this case, the

 

police investigation, the medical examiner's findings, and the limited

 

footage from security cameras have already provided all the answers we're

 

ever likely to have. You would have to have been there, watching the

 

events as they unfolded, to know what really took place, and the late

 

Robert Hornbeck is the only one who knows for sure.

 

 

 

The inevitable conclusion is one that we've seen many times before --

 

for far too many people, when their loved one dies, they cannot

 

comprehend that it might have been their loved one's fault. It "must be"

 

someone else's fault -- and that someone else must be made to pay.

[transcript80]

A woman in the Netherlands sued the lottery for NOT winning.

 

 

 

The lottery used the zip code as a ticket, so when her street won (she DID NOT PARTICPATE) she suffered "a horrific pshychological torment" because everybody in the street won. They claimed that the lottery should not have used the zip codes as tickets, and by using hers, the made her feel like a loser because she did not take part in this lottery...

 

 

 

Of course, she lost the law suit.

[Necromagus]

You forgot the part where they went into her home with the camera crew and made fun of her for not playing, then broadcasted that on national television. If they hadn't done that, I'd've considered that lawsuit frivolous.

[Kiriyama]

Busted up side the Head!!

 

 

 

Bennie Casson filed a lawsuit in Belleville, Ill., against PT's Show Club for its negligence in allowing a stripper to "slam" her breasts into his "neck and head region" as he watched her, a little too close to the stage.

 

 

 

Casson claims in his lawsuit that dancer Susan Sykes (aka "Busty Heart"), who claims to have show business's biggest chest at 88 inches, gave him a "bruised, contused, lacerated" neck.

 

 

 

Carson has filed suit claiming that the "gifted" performer slammed her breasts into his head and neck, causing "emotional distress, mental anguish and indignity."

 

 

 

The $200,000 lawsuit states that Carson was "bruised, contused, lacerated and made sore" by Heart's breasts, which reportedly weigh in at 40 pounds apiece.

 

 

 

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 

 

-lmao! how can this guy even sue them...going to a strip club..most guys would love that...what a -CAT- <--if ya know what i meen

 

 

 

So he goes to a strip club, willingly then sues the joint? Chirst any sane guy who went in there would love that.

[dsavi]

Has anyone heard I'll sue ya' by Wierd Al Yankovic?

[Thus]

50mil?? lol thats too much

[Maleficus1055]

I think a while ago a kid jumped of a park swing and got a splinter in his thumb from a woodchip. His parents sued the city and won.