"Hands on a Hardbody" Lawsuit Settled

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Posted: 7:17 PM Aug 17, 2008
Last Updated: 7:17 PM Aug 17, 2008
Reporter: Associated Press

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An East Texas car dealership has settled a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who killed himself just after dropping out of the dealership's widely recognized "Hands on a Hardbody" contest.

Details of the settlement between Patterson Nissan and Chalala Gutierrez, the wife of Richard Thomas Vega II, were not released.

The contest was featured in a 1995 documentary.
It has not been restaged since Vega's death.

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Posted by: jb on Aug 19, 2008 at 12:19 PM
donald trump has bailed out mr.mcmahon

Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 19, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Hhmmm. Has anyone sued Ed McMahon yet? I see it coming. What a joke. Greed-plain and simple, people.

Posted by: stupid on Aug 18, 2008 at 06:31 PM
lawyer gets 60%=360,000 uncle sam gets50%=120,000 she gets 120,000 maybe

Posted by: Anon on Aug 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM
This is crazy this person dropped out of the contest went accross the street BROKE into a k-mart store STOLE a gun commited suicide and the car dealership gets sued for $600,000 for not having personal on site to restrain people who might have a short peorid of insanity due to not winning the vehicle what is this world coming to some dies lets see who can we sue and how much money can we get and when we do get money we complain that it is not enough

Posted by: confused on Aug 18, 2008 at 09:59 AM
WHAT !

Posted by: CR3 Location: Brenham on Aug 18, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Stupid. The guy must have been crazy anyway.