Laughable Lawsuits
Six nurses who worked at a facility for the disabled were fired after refusing to comply with new countrywide rules that required them to give patients sexual assistance, such as helping them with masturbation or putting on a condom. The nurses have filed a lawsuit.
A Texan woman was awarded $780,000 after she sued a furniture store. She tripped and fell over a child running amok in the store. Surprisingly, she won the case, even though the child was her own.
An Indiana inmate sued because he was not given Rogaine to treat his baldness.
A Californian grandmother is suing Disneyland after she and her grandchildren witnessed Mickey Mouse taking off his costume backstage. The suit is due to her grandchildren’s traumatic experience.
According to an article (http://sideeffectsofxarelto.org/xarelto-lawsuits/), Jerry Williams sued and won $14,500 plus medical expenses after his neighbour’s beagle bit him on the buttocks. The dog was on a chain in a fenced-in yard. Williams had been shooting the dog repeatedly with a pellet gun at the time of the incident.
A New York prison inmate is filing a suit for $8 million against the state after he accidentally shot himself with a gun he illegally smuggled in to the penitentiary. The inmate says that better security would have prevented him from getting the weapon inside.
A construction worker in Tulsa intentionally cut his hand off with a circular saw. When he was taken to the emergency room, he told doctors not to reattach the hand, saying that it was possessed. The man is now suing the doctors for not reattaching the hand, claiming that the doctors should have known he was psychotic.
Chris Morris brought a suit against the state of Michigan for $1 million. He claims he caught a cold in the rotunda of the state capitol building. He was there to observe an art exhibition.
An Arizona inmate sued when he was not invited to a party held for a guard who was leaving.
The Anheuser-Busch Company was sued by a man for emotional distress, because he had no luck with the ladies after drinking their product.
Robert Lee Brock, an inmate in Virginia, has filed a lawsuit against himself, claiming that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested. He is suing for $5 million and is asking the state to pay, since he can’t have an income in prison.
A West Virginia woman won more than $2 million after she hurt her back opening a pickle jar at work.
An Ohio inmate sued the state for not being allowed soap-on-a-rope.
A restaurant in Philadelphia was sued after Amber Carson, of Lancaster Pennsylvania, slipped and broke her coccyx on a beverage that had been spilled on the floor. She was awarded $113,500. Not bad, considering she had thrown the drink at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier, during an argument.