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senegal
02-01-2011, 06:56 PM
Mrs.Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , who purchased a 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 driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. :O

Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set.

The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, :huh: $1,750,000 :huh: PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

Are we, as a society, getting more stupid…????

mr-mr
02-06-2011, 07:42 PM
It seems highly improbable that the manual would state that the driver can leave its seat? Im' not sure it is a "fact".
(I used to live in Dakar btw ;))

edit: urban legend http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/law/3447-merv-grazinski-an-urban-legend.html

senegal
02-08-2011, 08:45 PM
It seems highly improbable that the manual would state that the driver can leave its seat? Im' not sure it is a "fact".


http://wildcabbage.net/tag/merv-grazinski-of-oklahoma-city/