[sdiy] Plugging anything into anything

[Thomas Hudson]

Actually, this case is a fake, as are all of the Stella Awards:

http://www.snopes2.com/legal/lawsuits.htm

TH


On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:50, Brousseau, Paul E (Paul) wrote:
> Urgh.  Instead of awarding $1.75mil, etc., I would have "awarded" him a new job (plus pay raise!) as a crash test dummy.  I would have THEN given the $1.75mil to all the other drivers on the freeway who were doubtlessly injured.
> 
> Well, OK, not really about the crash test dummy part, but anyway...
> 
> --PBr
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Maddox (QinetiQ) [mailto:P.Maddox at signal.qinetiq.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:35 AM
> To: Paul Schreiber; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl;
> harrybissell at prodigy.net
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Plugging anything into anything
> 
> 
> >From the Stella awards pages ;-
> 
> -----
> Mr Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November 2000
> Mr Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home.
> On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise
> control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and
> make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly the Winnie left the
> freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
> advising him in the handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was
> awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnie. (Winniebago actually changed
> their handbooks on the back of this court case, just in case there are any
> other complete morons buying their vehicles
> -----
> 
> Sometimes you have to spell it out for people..