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Richard Rohrbacher, a summer-camp owner in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was called before local authorities to respond to neighbors’ complaints about loud music on Labor Day. He blamed the noise on his weekend tenants, a women’s rights group whom he called a group of “aggressive lesbians” and who he said had imprisoned him for most of the weekend on the campgrounds. He said the group’s $16,000 check bounced.

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Joseph Climpson won $440,000 from a Miami jury in October for a 1987 incident at Food Giant. When he got to his car, he realized he had only nine limes after having been charged for ten. The clerk in the store refused to supply a tenth, so he got one off the shelf and exited, whereupon security guard Hugo Salazar pulled his gun and shot Climpson twice in the ribs.

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