Archive for January, 2009
Sorry it so long, but well worth it. Courts gone mad. lol
>>>Time once again to review the winners of the Annual
>>>
>>>"Stella Awards."
>>>
>>>The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
>>>hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That
>>>case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous,
>>>successful lawsuits in the United States. According to reliable legal
>>>analysists, for every idiot who wins a case, thousands of other
>>>imbeciles don't make it that far. We can thank our lucky stars for that,
>>>because it's you and me who end up paying for these mental midgets
>>>awards as companies pass the cost on to the consumers.
>>>
>>>When I was growing up, my folks told me that if I did something stupid,
>>>I'd have no one to blame but myself. I guess the Stella awards prove my
>>>folks, and every other law-abiding, intelligent person who takes
>>>responsibility for his or her own actions, dead wrong! AND I firmly
>>>believe that everyone on these juries should be locked up and the keys
>>>thrown away!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Here are this year's winners:
>>>
>>>5th Place (tie):
>>>Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of
>>>her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
>>>running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
>>>understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving
>>>little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
>>>
>>>5th Place (tie):
>>>19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses
>>>when his neighbour ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman
>>>apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when
>>>he was trying to steal his neighbour's hubcaps.
>>>
>>>5th Place (tie):
>>>Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had
>>>just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the
>>>garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning.
>>>He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and
>>>garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and
>>>Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He
>>>subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food.
>>>He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him
>>>undue mental anguish.
>>>
>>>The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000. This is so outrageous
>>>that it should have been 2nd Place!
>>>
>>>4th Place:
>>>Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500. and
>>>medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door
>>>neighbour's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced
>>>yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might
>>>have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had
>>>climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with
>>>a pellet gun.
>>>
>>>3rd Place:
>>>A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster,
>>>Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her
>>>coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had
>>>thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
>>>
>>>2nd Place:
>>>Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a
>>>night club in a neighbouring city when she fell from the bathroom window
>>>to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while
>>>Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to
>>>avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental
>>>expenses.
>>>
>>>And drum roll please………..
>>>
>>>1st Place:
>>>
>>>This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
>>>Oklahoma.
>>>
>>>(This one sounds eerily familiar, like an urban legend, but it is a
>>>mater of public record in 2005 at the Superior Court in Oklahoma City.
>>>And it just goes to show that you can't protect stupid people from
>>>themselves.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On
>>>her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the
>>>freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the
>>>driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not
>>>surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.
>>>Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual
>>>that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus
>>>a new motor home.
>>>
>>>The Winnebago company actually changed their vehicle operating manuals
>>>on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete
>>>morons in the world!
Lets all hurt ourselves, then sue someone else. Lol
LMAO!! Not only is it hard to believe the stupidity of the people who instigate these lawsuits-but it makes me wonder how brain dead you have to be to be a juror that allows these idiots to win these cases!
We bought some land in a trailer home community(1 acre and 2 acre lots) and put our mobile home on it. There were restricitons such as no more than 4 animals, no RV's used as homes, only one home per lot, has to have a deck..things that should not be that hard to follow, right?WRONG
They changed owners and it is unreal what they are moving out here. There are lots of lots with only RV's which means the RV's are the primary residences which is against the rules. The peeople behind me have 20 animals. Neighbors across have 4 RV's and 4 cars with weeds growing all around.
Then I wake up this morning to guineas walking around my yard.(birds)
We are selling our house and probably going to lose ALOT of money because of this. We are following every single rule.
what can we do>?
We have the restriciton papers with our loan papers BUT the owners of the unsold land lots have now changed and the papers are not signed by anyone. It is just a sheet that says Restrictions
Forgot to add….it is outside of city limits.
First, you need to find out if the restrictions were recorded in the county courthouse. If they were, they may be enforcable by the lot owners, such as you, because they are for the benefit of all lot owners, and all owners are supposed to be subject to them.
You will need to consult an attorney to determine the following:
1. Whether the restrictions you were given are valid and, if so, whether you can enforce these restrictions against every lot owner/occupant in the community; or
2. If the restrictions are not enforcable, whether you can sue the people that you bought the lot from for misrepresenting the facts, though that may be a tough one, because anyone could have verified whether the restrictions were put on record for the whole community and whether they were valid, prior to going to closing.
Any remedy you have available regarding the restrictions will require court action to enforce. BUT, if the township or municipality where the property is located has a Zoning Ordinance, it is likely that many of these things you mention going on are violations of the ordinance, and you can get the local Zoning Officer to enforce the ordinance.
I sympathize with your situation. Good luck.
All of the links I get from Google forward me to car rental places that only rent mini-vans or to RV rental places. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enterprise rent a center…also you could call one of these car rental places and see if they are able to provide you with a number of where you could rent a conversion van. Many times they have other business numbers as referrals since they don’t do it many ppl are kind enough to send the customers to someone who might be able to help them. I say this because my brother owns his own business and if for one reason or another he cant help them then he takes the time to look at his phone book and refer them to someone he trusts and will be able to help them. He is not a greedy business owner the way he sees it is maybe one day those other companies might refer the customers to him. He believes in God’s blessings.
I mean, if your kid climbs into your lap and says I want to grow up and be just like you…. you can take it at face value, smile and say awww, thank you…yet we know in our hearts our weaknesses and foibles that they can't see, and think immediately of the bad thingsa, at least I did today. One day, I might agree and think yes, this came on the heels of that right thing I did and he saw it, and understands lets say sharing, or forgiveness, or my cool temper with the grumpy neighbor…on another day, I might come out and say to him indirectly, you do not want this quality, you do not want to do what I do, do what I say….there are days I don't want my kid to be like me. Ever think that way?
Okay, you want an example….Um, my son (12) said he wanted to be like me once a long time ago (8ish?). He likes the fact I built him a 5 story treehouse out of scrap wood, with a fireman pole you have to slide down to get out from. I am building a sauna from good pre-owned wood (from the dump), and other recovered scraps (bricks of shingles, etc) for the family, because we are Finnish, and I would like one and I think they will like one. I built the kids a 60 foot tall swing between two 90 foot tall white pines in our rather large yard, and the kids love it (The neightbors think I am nuts and so does a neighboring insurance man who told me my homeowners might cancel me if they ever knew…..whatever…) I am lower middle class, and I grew up higher middle class. Soooo, I would say financially, I/we have not done as well as where we came from, even though we both work full-time. Okay, here it is…I DON'T WANT MY BOY TO DO THE THINGS I DO !!! I WANT HIM TO DO/HAVE BETTER.Build with new wood. Have the olympic gym/swingset/store bought fort thing. I am not a carpenter, but I manage to create somewhat wfe things no one has died on yet…. I give my kids good things I think they will enjoy, since I cannot give them the things they want (horses, RV trips, a cabin, etc). Yet I still can't fully accept the "high honor" from my son that he wants to be like me when he grows up. I don't want him to turn out like me, scrimping, scrounging, make do with leftovers, taking "scraps from the master's table" as it were. These are okay, but I find it hard to look him in the eye and tell him straight faced.."Everybody collects golf balls on the course cuz they are soooo darned expensive." This is something I do that gives us exercise and free balls (some really nice Nike balls too), but I don't want him to do this later in life. Please, Lord don't let him folllow my example on this one. I'll utter in prayer….
I ALWAYS hope that my (soon to be four) kids will do better than we do/did, and will aim high, even higher, so they might just experience things better. Just better. My life hasn't been bad, I just know there are things I want him to steer clear of and pursue instead. What do you think? Can you accept a child's I want to be like you compliment without reservations? And should we?
I need more information please, you're being to vague. LOL, Just kidding. You sound like a really loving parent and as any good one does, you hope for the best for your kids.
I purchased an rv from a so called friend a few years back. (It's in storage now) When I paid it off she signed the wrong last name on the title (married name was what she signed but title was in her unmarried name) Unfortunatly I did not catch it until it was too late. I contacted the DMV and they said to have her fill out an affadavit of name change which I could not for the life of me get ahold of her to do. (The trailer was in fact legally hers) SO the dmv had me do what is called a 3 year registration with ownership in doubt. After 3 years I can get my official title.
I either need to sell this rv or use it as collateral on a loan.
Can I?
I can not locate this individual. The DMV does not have current contact info for her either. The last address they have on file for her lists her as one of my neighbors. She moved out of that park several years ago.
Have her go and ask for a copy of the title at your cost, maybe 25.00. Then when she gets it have her sign the correct name