This story is archived

Drunk Driver Steals Your Car - You Get Sued! »

Archived 68 0 drops

and other amazing lawsuits that survived trial-by-jury in the good ol' U.S. of A. (personal favorite, the guy who sued his neighbor for running over his fingers while he was trying to steal the guy's hubcaps!)

Read Full Story at truelawyers.com »

Submitted By:

pawfoots

I currently work as VP at Virante, Inc. We are a web marketing/consulting firm based in Durham, NC. You can also find us at ...

This Story is Archived and Commenting is Closed

Comments: 11

Avg rating: (+2/-1 1)
Harbeas
June 12, 2007, 8:32 p.m.
How ridiculous that a judge didn't throw this case out of court. the fact that he was comitting a felony negates his "right" to sue for anything connnected to it.
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
yvonne8955
June 12, 2007, 9:15 p.m.
I think the country would be a better place if the "dumb" or "bad guy" named in any joke or negative "listen to this story!" were replace by "lawyer" or "lawyers". Lets make it a more disliked profession so we can handle things a little more like civilized countries do.
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
markd2007
June 13, 2007, 2:18 a.m.
If there's anyone who needs a bullet in the head, its that SOB and the attorney who represented him. And the judge who rules in favor of the dirtbag theif.
Avg rating: (+8/-2 6)
Mowens1984
June 13, 2007, 10:25 a.m.
eww, bed bugs. That's the nastiest thing ever...
Are any of these really real? I can hardly fathom that half of those people didn't simply get laughed out of the courtroom.
Avg rating: (+1/-3 -2)
Murambatsvina
June 13, 2007, 10:30 a.m.
Lawyer says to defendant "For a man in your position you seem to have above average intelligence". Defendant replies "If I wasn't under oath I'd say the same about you".
Avg rating: (+6/-2 4)
ETproductions
June 13, 2007, 10:32 a.m.
I got sued in California for an accident that unfolded thusly. I had leased a car and after the lease was up, the leasing company sent two guys to pick it up. They were apparently clowning around on 101 just south of Santa Barbara and one of them passed the other on the right shoulder, unaware that Caltrans was doing some road work. To make a long story short, he collided with a chemical toilet and the pickup truck towing it. This rolled my former car onto its side, completely blocking both lanes of 101 south just above Carpenteria.
The traffic naturally backed up quickly, soon reaching an overpass on the outskirts of Santa Barbara itself. Some guy came barreling over the top of the overpass almost fast enough to go airborne at the peak. When he saw all the traffic in front of him at a dead stop, he slammed on brakes, went into a skid, crashed through the concrete railings of the overpass, and landed hood first in the back of a open bed railway car below.
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
ETproductions
June 13, 2007, 10:35 a.m.
This guy sued everybody from Jeep, who made my former leased car to the leasing company, the company they sent to pick the car up and Caltrans for an accident a mile away from where he crashed because, "We all made him do it."
To be fair, his lawyers actually named me in it just to compel me to give a deposition that there was nothing mechanically defective with my former car, as the clown that was driving it (he looked like they recruited him straight from the Hells Angels) was claiming it suddenly steered itself right into the back of the porta-potty. With deposition in hand, they released me from the suit.
Avg rating: (+6/-0 6)
Truzseeker
June 13, 2007, 11:07 a.m.
Doesn't surprise me at all. That's the price everyone pays in the commercial society.
Avg rating: (+6/-1 5)
not2needy
June 13, 2007, 2:51 p.m.
The same principal applies to people who are victims of identity thieft. It's crazy and so not fair.