Can I Please Have The Opinions Of The Good, Beautiful And Un-beautiful People Of Gs On These Lawsuits?

1) In November 2000, psychic Uri Geller sued video game company Nintendo for £60 million (the equivalent of US $100 million) over the Pokémon character “Yungerer,” localized in English as “Kadabra“, which he claimed was an unauthorised appropriation of his identity. The Pokémon in question has psychic abilities and carries bent spoons. Geller also claimed that the star on Kadabra’s forehead and the lightning patterns on its abdomen are symbolisms popular with the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany. The katakana for the character’s name, ユンゲラー, is visually similar to the transliteration of Geller’s own name into Japanese (ユリゲラー). He is quoted as saying: “Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image.” The lawsuit was thrown out of court.
2) In 1992, after a night of hard drinking, 23 year old Karen Norman put her car in reverse and backed into Galveston Bay. She was too drunk to figure out how to unbuckle her seatbelt, and she drowned. Her family sued Honda for making a seatbelt that was too difficult to unbuckle. The jury awarded the Normans $65 million despite the fact that Karen Norman’s blood alcohol level was .17, almost twice the legal limit.
3) Ambulance driver Larry Wesley was fired from his job after stopping for doughnuts while transporting an emergency patient to Ben Taub Hospital, a city hospital in Houston. He later sued the city of Houston, claiming that he suffered emotional distress because of the firing.
4) In 2007, Boca Raton, Florida attorney Richard Mateer sued the owners of the Miami Heat basketball team. A long-term season ticket holder, Mateer had paid $11,000 for six front row seats. When the team owners added a new front row in front of Mateer’s front row seats, the lawyer sued, claiming that his seats had now become “second-rate.”
5) A West Virginia convenience store clerk was awarded more than $2.5 million in damages for injuring her back while opening a pickle jar
6) In 2007, Washington D.C. judge Roy Pearson sued his neighborhood mom-and-pop drycleaner for $65 million for losing a pair of his pants. Even stranger, the case has gone to court.
7)In 1999, Daniel Dukes, a 27 year old moran from Florida hatched a clever plot so that he could have his life long dream of swimming with a whale fulfilled. He hid from the security guards at Sea World and managed to stay in the park after closing. Shortly after, he dived into the tank containing a killer whale – fulfilling his dream. Daniel was killed by the whale. His parents proceeded to sue Sea World because they did not display public warnings that the whale (Tillikum) could kill people. They also claim that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there. The trainers will not enter the pool with Tillikum due to the fact that he has now been involved in two deaths
8)This is a true case of believe it or not. Christopher Roller, a resident of Minnesota sued David Blaine and David Copperfield – demanding that they reveal their secret magic tricks to him. He demanded 10% of their total income for life. The reason for the suit is that Roller believes that the magicians are defying the laws of physics, and thereby using godly powers. But it gets worse. Roller is suing not just because the magicians are using God’s powers – he is suing because he thinks he is God and therefore it is his powers they are stealing.
9) Marcy Noriega, a California police officer decided to tase a suspect in the back of her car when he became uncontrollable and started kicking at the windows. Noriega drew her taser from her belt and fired it at the man. Unfortunately for the crook, the officer had accidentally drawn her gun instead, and she shot him in the chest – killing him. The city is now suing the taser company, arguing that any reasonable officer could mistakenly draw and shoot their gun instead of their taser. They are suing for the full costs of the wrongful death lawsuit which the man’s family has filed against the city.
10)This is a recent case in which a 52 year old traffic officer from Los Angeles sued Victoria’s Secret for damage to her eye. The damage was caused, claims the cop (Macrida Patterson), when she was trying on a new thong. The tight fit caused a metal clip to fly off hitting her in the eye. The case was filed on June 9, 2008 and Officer Patterson is seeking unspecified damages. The courts have not yet informed the officer that as a traffic cop, she doesn’t need fancy underwear as she is unlikely to ever have a date anyway.