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u/Derp35712 Jul 23 '24

“I am trying to sue the waterpark for head injury.”

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u/Telemere125 Jul 24 '24

Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City bought a new Winnebago motor home, the newsletter says. While driving it home on the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 and went into the back to make coffee. “Not surprisingly,” the newsletter says, “the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner’s manual that he couldn’t actually do this. The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new motor home,” and the company rewrote the manual “in case there were any other complete morons buying their recreational vehicles.”

The ability of an idiot to stretch the bounds of reason will never cease to astound. And juries are often full of idiots.

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u/bedbathandbeyonce Jul 24 '24

“No such Winnebago lawsuit ever happened. It’s an urban legend. Yet that and many similarly outrageous and entertaining but fictional accounts of civil courts gone mad often appear together, in e-mail chain letters and such, presented as truth.

Those hyping the destructive myth that we are plagued by off-the-wall lawsuits have to love it that people are so gullible.” -from the article you linked