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Due to theInternational Fools Day this article will be devoted to funny, unusual andstupid lawsuits. Most of these funny and unusual lawsuits are connected tovarious fast-food chains, supermarkets and food issues. Of course the number onein every list is the $2.86 Million Coffee Burn Case we already wrote about.Stella Liebeck burned herself with coffee purchased at a McDrive and suedMcDonalds, the legendary $2.86 million compensation were suggested by Stellas�lawyer who suggested penalizing the fast-food chain for one or two days' worthof coffee revenues (about $1.35 million per day). The sad thing for McDonaldsis that the coffee was really too hot and Stella was right, so the case wassettled for $600.000. After that the Stella Award, for the most stupid caseswas founded. Another McDonalds related case happened in 1993, when a man suedthe corporation for having no �don�t eat and drive� warning. While sitting in acar he placed a milkshake between his legs and leaned over to get food from thebag, during this process he squeezed the hot milkshake out of the cup. He wasdistracted due to shock and bumped into another car. Wal-Mart is mostprobable the number two target of unusual lawsuits. In 2006 they were sued by Klinerfamily whose house was burned down due to overheated xBox 360 Power supply inDecember 2004 (they also sued Microsoft). The problem was that the console wasreleased only in 2005. Wal-Mart was also sued by another couple who suffered �crackedand damaged toenails� after canned goods fell out of an overfilled plasticgrocery bag. In a similar situation Northridge discount department store wassued by a woman who wanted to buy a blender and tried to get a bottom box froma stack of four blenders from an upper shelf. When she pulled out the bottombox, other boxes fell down and she sustained minor damages. Richard Harris in 1991sued the Anheiser-Busch advertising company for false advertising. He claimedthat he suffered from emotional distress in addition to mental and physicalinjury. The reason was that when he drank beer he had no luck with the ladies,as promised in the advertising, he also had hangovers in the morning. There are alsonumerous strange and stupid cases. There was a case when a surfer sued anothersurfer for steeling his wave. A student sued his University for not warning himof the dangers of living on the 4th floor, after he fell out of the window. Awoman sued her friend for giving her a bad haircut. A woman in Israelsued the weather channel for predicted a sunny day and it rained, she went out lightlydressed and as a result she caught flu. A convicted bank robber on parole sueda bank for causing him damages after the bank employee handed him over ananti-robbery device in form of a money roll filled with tear gas. A woman whoaccidentally killed a man in a car crash sued his widow for grave and cripplingpsychological injuries she suffered from watching the man die.
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