{"id":2157,"date":"2015-01-06T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:08:58","slug":"the-true-stella-awards-2007-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"The TRUE Stella Awards &#8212; 2007 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">by Randy Cassingham<br \/>\nIssued February 1, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the FAKE cases that have been highly circulated online for the last several years (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StellaAwards.com\/bogus.html\">http:\/\/www.StellaAwards.com\/bogus.html<\/a> for details), the following cases have been researched from public sources and are confirmed TRUE by the ONLY legitimate source for the Stella<br \/>\nAwards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaawards.com\/\">www.StellaAwards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"60%\">\n<ul>\n<li>#3: Sentry Insurance Company. The company provided worker&#8217;s compensation insurance for a Wisconsin &#8220;Meals on Wheels&#8221; program. Delivering a meal, a MoW volunteer (who was allegedly not even wearing boots) slipped and fell on a participant&#8217;s driveway that had been cleared of snow, and Sentry had to pay to care for her resulting injuries. Sentry wanted its money back, so it sued the 81-year-old homeowner getting the Meals on Wheels service. It could have simply filed for &#8220;subrogation&#8221; from her homeowner&#8217;s insurance company, but by naming her in the action, it dragged an old lady into court, reinforcing the image of insurance companies as concerned only about the bottom line, not &#8220;protecting&#8221; policyholders from loss.<\/li>\n<li>#2: The family of Robert Hornbeck. Hornbeck volunteered for the Army and served a stint in Iraq. After getting home, he got drunk, wandered into a hotel&#8217;s service area (passing &#8220;DANGER&#8221; warning signs), crawled into an air conditioning unit, and was severely cut when the machinery activated. Unable to care for himself due to his drunkenness, he bled to death. A tragedy, to be sure, but one solely caused by a supposedly responsible adult with military training. Despite his irresponsible behavior &#8212; and his perhaps criminal trespassing &#8212; Hornbeck&#8217;s family sued the hotel for $10 million, as if it&#8217;s reasonably foreseeable that some drunk fool would ignore warning signs and climb into its heavy duty machinery to sleep off his bender<\/li>\n<li><b>AND THE WINNER of the 2007 TRUE Stella Award:<\/b> Roy L. Pearson Jr. The 57-year-old Administrative Law Judge from Washington DC claims that a dry cleaner lost a pair of his pants, so he sued the mom-and-pop business for $65,462,500. That&#8217;s right: more than $65 million for one pair of pants. Representing himself, Judge Pearson cried in court over the loss of his pants, whining that there certainly isn&#8217;t a more compelling case in the District archives. But the Superior Court judge wasn&#8217;t moved: he called the case &#8220;vexatious litigation&#8221;, scolded Judge Pearson for his &#8220;bad faith&#8221;, and awarded damages to the dry cleaners. But Pearson didn&#8217;t take no for an answer: he&#8217;s appealing the decision. And he has plenty of time on his hands, since he was dismissed from his job. Last we heard, Pearson&#8217;s appeal is still pending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr width=\"60%\">\n<p>TO CONFIRM THE VALIDITY OF THESE CASES or get more information on the True Stella Awards, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaawards.com\/\">www.StellaAwards.com<\/a>. The True Stella Awards were only published in 2002-2007. ANY claims otherwise are bogus and are merely someone trying to capitalize on the true awards.<\/P><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Copyright 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisistrue.com\/\">This<i>is<\/i>True.Inc<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Randy Cassingham Issued February 1, 2008 Unlike the FAKE cases that have been highly circulated online for the last several years (see http:\/\/www.StellaAwards.com\/bogus.html for details), the following cases have been researched from public sources and are confirmed TRUE by the ONLY legitimate source for the Stella Awards: www.StellaAwards.com. #3: Sentry Insurance Company. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[679,1229,1363,1433],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-frivolous-lawsuit","tag-randy-cassingham","tag-stella","tag-this-is-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}