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What is the silliest thing that someone has sued over?



    




joy s
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a robber sued the owner of the house he broke in because he slip a fall while he was robbing them. he won't


dr_quatto
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The McDonalds "Hot Coffee" Lawsuit.

Moronic in my opinion.


Captain Bunkum
Here's a few:-

A guy bought a camper van and while he was driving he got up and walked into the back to make himself a coffee. Needless to say the vehicle crashed because he was no longer driving it. He sued the manufacturer because there was no warning notice saying that getting out of the drivers seat while the vehicle is moving is dangerous

A woman sued a furniture shop because two small children were causing a disturbance in the shop. They were her own children

A guy in Italy sued his wife because she opened his mail

A woman in New York tried to commit suicide by lying across the tracks in the subway. The train hit her and she survived - and sued the subway company for not protecting her from being hit by the train


sensible_man
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Try this one. It was listed as number one in the newest Stella awards (named after the McDonalds coffee lady)
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.


johnboy
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that's got to be a recent case in scotland where a prisoner sued the scottish prison service for infringing his human rights, why because when he used the prison telephone a voice came on to let the answerer know they were talking to someone held in prison.


emiss
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Last week in USA the local government sued someone for not cutting his lawn


coquinegra
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a lost pair of pants!


Oops your account has been suspe
that guy in nebraska who tried to sue god. I know he was just trying to make a point, but come on!


pixiegurl2k2
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Fat people sueing McDonalds!


star ray
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a hole in a comdom


Salahudeen
An old man had a heart attack and a paramedic came to his house and saved his life. They then rushed him to hospitsal. When the old man got home he found his tv had been on the whole time.

He sued the paramedic for not switiching it off and costing him a 200 pound bill.


yahoo princess
when that woman sued McDonalds because the coffee was too hot.

that was insane!!


hensleyclaw
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I would say nothing. The person making the claim believes that they are correct and should be compensated for their damages. People blame lawyers for the number of law suits. However, I never sued anyone unless my client wanted be to file. I spent more time talking my clients out of filing claims that actually filing.

I know there are lawyers out there that will take and file any case in the hopes of getting a small settlement (what we call nusisance settlements). But they are not the normal lawyer.

In my years probably the dumbest case I had seen was over two horses and their up keep. The owner of the horses sued the person caring for the horses because they died. The guy caring sued the owner because the owner never paid for their care and said he owned them. As far as I know, the lawsuit is still pending (10 years or so over about $3000.00 in damages). A close second would be a divorce between where husband and wife were both lawyers. A divorce with no minor children should not take more than 6 months to a year to be over with (even if there is a trial). This case was filed 7 years ago and is still going on. Both sides just want to punish each other as much as possible. I guess that keeps them from ruining two other people's lives.


jdl_1984
Being burned by coffee.

I mean really, you want coffee... it's gonna be hot, what a dumb *** and think we all know who this refers to!


Prodigal Son
The one that springs to mind is the guy that tried to sue god!!??


LilGangsta
Will smith suing a fan for 6,000,000 coz the fan touched his *** lol


john
One pair of pants.


r1b1c*
This is of course subjective but IMO the 54 million dollar lawsuit for a pair of pants.

That actually cost the dry cleaners over 100k not pocket change that's for sure.


harleygirl
a housekeeper riped off a Roman candle from her employers home,thinking it was a candle,so she cooked a romantic dinner for her and her husband and lit it well it went off in the house fireworks city....the housekeeper got hurt..and is now suing the employer


goingmad
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a computer she bought for an ex boyfriend after they split up knowing that it would cause hardship for him and his family!


perfectlybaked
That group of people who sued Denny's for "waiting too long" to be seated. They said it was racial.

If I were the judge of that case, I would've laughed in their face.

Oh, and that McDonald's hot coffee case was pathetic. That old lady has probably tormented a lot of people in her life.


Brian Da Dog
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Parent sued Disney for emotional trauma cause their brat kid followed a character into a rescrited area and found out it was just a person inside the suit.


Scott Bull
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The Fox Network once sued the Fox Network for ridiculing the Fox Network on a Fox Network show.


SaberBlade
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I heard on the news recently that a Senator is suing god because....."Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terrorist threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”"

It gets better, God replied. see second source link.

I also heard that (I believe it's the same guy) was suing God just to prove you can sue anyone.


Darkskinnyboy
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McDonald's coffee being spoiled on the consumer. McDonald had to pay the consumer even though they had the warning sign about hot coffee.


Quantum Leap
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State Sen. Ernie Chambers is suing God. He said on Monday that it is to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits.


The lawsuit accuses God "of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent." It says God has caused "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects and the like."

The suit also says God has caused "calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction."

Chambers also says God "has manifested neither compassion nor remorse, proclaiming that defendant will laugh" when calamity comes.


Fred3663
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$5.4million for a dry cleaning dispute over a $40 pair of trousers.
see -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/09/19/ST2007091902225.html?hpid=topnews


gordon3392
convict sued ,,,about hes mattress on hes bed was to hard,,,,,,,


elysialaw
The pants guy I say...especially since he was supposedly a judge.





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