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Give Bees a Chance

Jerry Seinfeld and Evel Knievel in lawsuits (not with each other).

Well, a few celebrity names involved in lawsuits that are strange.

First, Jerry Seinfeld. His wife is being sue by someone, because she wrote a cookbook, that tells how you can hide vegetables in foods, tricking kids into eating them.

Apparently, another author wrote a similar book years earlier.

Now, when I heard Seinfeld on Letterman, he pleaded the case well. He said, "My wife would never steal anyones idea. She gave me a hard time once for taking two newspapers out of the machine once."

(not sure why someone with millions, takes two newspapers without paying for both...)

I thought it was probably just a coincidence. But the other day, Seinfeld lost a different lawsuit. His "Bee Movie" had commercials that used a cute song called "Give Bees a Chance" (a parody of the Lennon tune). But, one of Howard Sterns writers had written a song like that for a commercial years earlier.

So, now I wonder what's up with Seinfeld and his wife.

The other case is baffling to me for another reason. Evel Knievel's estate could owe a guy over $100 million.

The reason? In 1977, a PR man named Shelly Saltman wrote a book about Evel (he promoted an early stunt of his). Knievel didn't like it, and in a parking lot approached him swinging a baseball bat. Shelly raised his arm to protect himself (in court, doctors said this probably saved his life). But, it didn't save his arm from being broken.

At that moment, the guy that broke every bone in his own body, broke the arm of someone else -- and it cost him $12.75 million. He also served six months in jail.

Here's the part that confuses me. Evel never paid the guy a cent. Now, with interest on the uncollected amount, it's over $100 mllion, and his estate is going to have to cough this cash up.

Why is it so hard to collect on judgements? I understand if it's a dude living in a trailer, that doesn't have any money. But this is Evel Knievel!

The same thing goes on with O.J. Simpson. He makes money, and the Goldman's don't see a cent.

At least we're finally started to see O.J. do some jail time. Sure, it was only a week, but the trial hasn't started yet.

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Well, a few celebrity names involved in lawsuits that are strange.

First, Jerry Seinfeld. His wife is being sue by someone, because she wrote a cookbook, that tells how you can hide vegetables in foods, tricking kids into eating them.

Apparently, another author wrote a similar book years earlier.

Now, when I heard Seinfeld on Letterman, he pleaded the case well. He said, "My wife would never steal anyones idea. She gave me a hard time once for taking two newspapers out of the machine once."

(not sure why someone with millions, takes two newspapers without paying for both...)

I thought it was probably just a coincidence. But the other day, Seinfeld lost a different lawsuit. His "Bee Movie" had commercials that used a cute song called "Give Bees a Chance" (a parody of the Lennon tune). But, one of Howard Sterns writers had written a song like that for a commercial years earlier.

So, now I wonder what's up with Seinfeld and his wife.

The other case is baffling to me for another reason. Evel Knievel's estate could owe a guy over $100 million.

The reason? In 1977, a PR man named Shelly Saltman wrote a book about Evel (he promoted an early stunt of his). Knievel didn't like it, and in a parking lot approached him swinging a baseball bat. Shelly raised his arm to protect himself (in court, doctors said this probably saved his life). But, it didn't save his arm from being broken.

At that moment, the guy that broke every bone in his own body, broke the arm of someone else -- and it cost him $12.75 million. He also served six months in jail.

Here's the part that confuses me. Evel never paid the guy a cent. Now, with interest on the uncollected amount, it's over $100 mllion, and his estate is going to have to cough this cash up.

Why is it so hard to collect on judgements? I understand if it's a dude living in a trailer, that doesn't have any money. But this is Evel Knievel!

The same thing goes on with O.J. Simpson. He makes money, and the Goldman's don't see a cent.

At least we're finally started to see O.J. do some jail time. Sure, it was only a week, but the trial hasn't started yet.

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