OK, here's one of my favorites- and this is not an urban legend as I was invovled in the litigation surrounding this.
You know those BBQ grills folks make out of used 55 gal drums? This good ole boy in Mississippi steals an "empty" drum from the loading dock of our client, a chem co.
He puts in his garage and gets out his blow torch- as soon as it hits the drum, it ignites the residue in the drum and BANG.
Burns the house down, vol FD shows up, 3 of their guys get injured trying to hose the house off (they get about one call a year, so not too sharp). The runoff flows down the street into a stream- they call the EPA. The
gomer himself escaped relatively unscathed, just blew his leg off below the knee.
So, we have a property claim, a medical claim, a liability issue with the FD and EPA problems. We try to settle, it all goes to trial. Keep in mind this is East Jesus, MS. Jury has a combined IQ of 35 and half of them
(no lie) are related somehow to the plaintiff. Scary stuff.
All this damage, of course, is my chem co clients fault (keep in mind the goober stole the drum).
We are in deep sh*t after the first couple hours, decide to go ahead and hire as co-counsel a local guy who, although appears dumb as a rock and reminds me of the attorney in "Wild Things"- Bill Murray, apparently has some swing in the county. An hour later, he settles the thing for a new pickup truck (nice one- about 30K) for the goober and very reasonable medical expenses. Our "big city" lawyers were ready to offer around half a million. We signed and got out of there real quick.
We later learned that the guys wife divorced him shortly thereafter and got the truck.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the NSX, but funny anyways.
