Who dresses her in the morning?

I blame the lawyers.

Makes me wish I was stupid!

I did a check on this and there are places that say it is true... http://forums.chargers.com/archive/index.php/t-15515.html http://www.2spare.com/item_65657.aspx http://www.automotivehelper.com/topic107944.htm http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/humor-forum/6679-stupid-lawsuit-awards.html So you can see why I thought this was true. Thanks for pointing it out to me!

I like (maybe "like" isn't the right word for stories that make you think "WTH??") the Stella Awards and their companion site www.thisistrue.com ,which reports wacky news items in print..I knew I'd seen that Winnebago story before somewhere,and had to check! It makes for a great story,though!

I was going to mention the fact that this story began circulating shortly after cruise controls were adopted... It's had a long life. It's nice to see that there ARE still a FEW people who do look things up and do not believe everything they read. (Or do we?)

I would be embarrassed to tell people what I did. My ex- used to work for a lawyer who got his fingers crushed between the panels of a garage door when closing it. He sued the manufacturer and installer for not putting warnings on the garage door and he won. I wish I could be that stupid and get rich.

Yes, you missed your chance!

Now why didn't I think of doing that years ago when I got my thumb caught in the truck door and had to go to the doctor twice to get it drained and finally lost the nail .... I should have sued Ford for not having a warning about keeping my fingers away from the door when closing the door. hahahahaha Dang, I could have gotten rich. It is sad what people do or try to do to sue and get money.

Sorry, but we live in a stupid world. That is why we have all the warnings on things. I read them and shake my head and say why..but obviously, someone needs them.

That is why we have instructions on shampoo bottles too..rinse lather repeat...The world is a blonde joke.

Your relative was just very futuristic. She was seeing it the future with Speech Recognition. Autopilot---yes, that does sound right.

I think part of the problem is the huge amount of money the lawyers get. What if the were a cap on what the lawyers could get? Do you think the number of lawsuits would drop.

Well I can't blame the manual writer they just do as they are told. But the judge, he has virtually guaranteed that every idiot will now try and sue.

And the cost of the stupidity gets passes on to us, it is absurd.

Some people or many people?

Great link..Thanks. I am glad there are people who at least recognize stupidity at it's best.

Could I recommend "The Stella Awards" www.stellaawards.com to everybody reading at this point? (The site is named for Stella,that lady with the McD Coffee burns..) It's a website publishing those court cases You'd never believe somebody got awarded compensation money for!

Maybe they should call it speed control. Since cruise control could maybe imply the whole process was controlled.

You are right, we go through great lengths to let the stupid people of the world live and worse yet reproduce - they can pass on the stupid gene.

Well stupidity is rampant in this country. What else can I say.

I too did a search on it, and many sites are listing this as true. So I thought it was true. But as I mentioned above, my ex- worked for a lawyer who crushed his fingers when closing a panel garage door, he sued the company for not warning him about it and got over a mill.

I'd love to know where these lawyers hide out! My kids were both hurt in a freak accident in a department store once and got only $2,500.00 each! They could have been blinded! I was in the store buying paint and my kids were about 6 and 4 years old. There was a display of "Whirly-gigs" nearby... a box of them on the floor with most of them upside down so the metal rod was sticking up. One was on the floor and, when my back was turned, my oldest son started screaming. I looked over and saw him bleeding near his eye. I took him into the restroom while my husband waited outside with my youngest son. I cleaned my oldest son up and saw that he had torn his eyelid, right in the crease. It kept bleeding. He told me he had bent down to pick up the whirlygig on the floor and the rod from one in the box poked him in the eye. When we got out of the restroom, my husband was rushing my other son towards me. He was screaming and holding HIS eye! He had done the exact same thing only a few minutes after my older son, only my youngest had torn his eyelid right at the eyelashes!!! The manager at the store tried to get me to sign a release form (yeah right!) and I took them right to the ER. They both got stitches, and have permanent scars. (Have you ever tried to hold a 4- or 6-year-old down while they got stitches in their eyelids? Not fun!!!) I went back to the store and took a picture of the display of whirlygigs, still on the floor, still upside down in the box with the metal rods sticking up! Yet, they were only awarded $2,500.00 each! Unbelieveable!

And in the end, we all paid for stupidity with higher prices.