Posted on 08/03/04
I came, I saw, I sued
The United States is notorious as the land of opportunity for frivolous lawsuits. There is even an annual ceremony, the Stella Awards, to honour the most bizarre and unlikely of the successful plaintiffs. The winner for 2003 was an Oklahoma City man who set the cruise control of his Winnebago motor home at 70 miles an hour, left the driver's seat to go back and make himself a cup of coffee and, after the vehicle veered off the highway and crashed, sued Winnebago for not warning him that leaving the steering wheel unattended might be dangerous. The jury awarded him $1.75-million (U.S.) and a new Winnebago.
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