News of the Weird: Our Litigious Society

Who's fault is it when a man crashes into a table, tearing several ligaments and suffering a severed tendon while attempting in vain to improve his base-stealing technique in his den? Apparently, it's Mickey Mantle Sports Productions, according to the victim's lawsuit. ';Litigious Society' catalogs the petty and darkly humorous lawsuits filed by victims of painful, self-inflicted foolery. In a world where a man can sue Starbucks for ';goading' him into stealing money from the tip jar by placing it in plain sight, you'll wonder how absurd the process of law has truly become.