Snopes is also a good resource for this stuff:

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Marcham [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] Jerry Williams
> 
> 
> According to the "official stella awards" site this story is 
> fabricated. 
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http
://www.stellaawards.com/2003.html
>  
> The "real Stella Awards of 2003": 
> http://www.stellaawards.com/2003.html
> 
> 
> Keepin' it real...
> 
> Bruce 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pre-patinated plastic gumby block w/ coin slot 
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John
Callan
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] Jerry Williams


This is why I don't own a hand-gun.  I think I could be provoked into
using it by this ass-hole.  How's the Beagle?  Did he/she get a nice
settlement too?

-jc


On Jan 24, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

> Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded
> $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his

> next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's 
> fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the
> dog might have been just a little provoked at the time
> by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into
> the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet
> gun.
>
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