More Scary Lawsuits Journey with us into the macabre, the bizarre, and the scary. All it takes is a short trip to the local courthouse. There's no way to escape the fact that these lawsuits are out there, and you're paying for them. He is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and he wants the casinos to be precluded from seeking to prosecute him criminally. A woman sued Nike earlier this year claiming that her sneakers caused her to fall while running and permanently injure her wrist.
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After a round of drinks, a Florida man climbed up a transformer tower. He was shocked by 13,000 volts of electricity and thrown nearly 40 feet. He also sued the Tampa Electric company, saying the utility didn't do enough to prevent him from breaking into the fenced, gated and locked substation and scaling the transformer. It was an error that became the source of jokes everywhere from local newspapers to Jay Leno. The doctor claims he did everything by the book.