I saw this in a recent "joke" page I get every day. I'm not sure if it's true, but I somehow think that it is....just crazy enough to be true
Another Frivilous Lawsuit
Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.
Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.
I posted it in red....as it makes me mad that someone could be a complete moron, and then get paid almost $2-Million for it. It kind of makes one rethink education??
At the very least, I have to go back and check my Winnie Owner's manual......maybe I've got the old version??
Oops, silly me.... I just did a snopes.com version check, and this was an urban legand, but it sure does make you think? There is bound to be at least one person stupid enough....though I'd never be crazy enough to spend the time to make a sandwich...,.maybe just grab a beer!!
DH Bill / DW Claudia / DD Jenn / DS Chris The Paps! Sophie, Abby, Brandy, Kahlie and Annie
2000 Winnebago "Minnie" 31C, Ford V-10
Purchased April Fools Day, 2008 The Pets
The real moron that's true is the guy who sat on his RV toilet and fell through the floor into the black tank. His toilet had a slow leak and weakened the floor.
The guy was a FTer in his 5er. He had the same year or a little older than our 2005 5er. He weighed over 300 lbs but that didn't matter. He sued, he won, but it's been a couple of years, so am not sure what he got for his trouble.
2006 DRV Elite Suite 36TK3....our home
2008 Ford F450 Lariat CC 4x4......his office
Working Fulltimers since 3/2005
"Shoot for the Moon! Even if you miss it, you will land among the Stars."
That old joke has been around since the 1970's when the gas crunch was going on and gas prices were in $3 a gallon range.
That version said that two Arabs had done a similar thing in a Cadillac Limousine that they had bought with our American gas money. They set the cruise control and then decided to crawl into the back seat for whatever reason.
Of course that version was because of America's hate of high price gas and were blaming the Arabs ...
John
John Harrelson
Carson City, Nevada
fulltime since 1977
93 Ford 350 4wd Diesel
95 Prowler 30.5 ft 5th wheel w/slide
TWO CENTS WORTH
The story goes that a man died and was approached by the Devil who told him that he could buy his soul back for a dollar. The man searched his pockets and could only come up with 98 cent. While begging the Devil to forget the two cent he was short, an Angel happened by and hearing the Devil laughing, asked the man, "Would you mind if I put in my two cents ?" The Devil got so mad that he exploded in a puff of smoke and the man's soul was saved. The moral: Sometimes putting in your two cents worth makes a difference.
JOHN "the cook" 1997
I concur with jharrelson. 70s, Arabs, but it was a van in the story I heard. It goes along with the story about KFC accidently cooking a mouse, not a chicken part and the guy with a hook for a hand who tries to grab and kill young neckers in the corn fields.
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