In 1998, a man named John Garcia shot another individual to acquire eight dollars from him… now 17 years later, this man was sentenced to death on October 6^th.  Although this was a more serious case, the murder was motivated by killing for only eight dollars, which prompts this list of weird trials.

1. A man in New York sued Subway after eating one of their sandwiches and finding a knife in the bread. However, he sued for $1,000,000 not because of the knife found, but due to the claim that he got food poisoning from said knife because it was dirty.
2. Most people question magic, but to go so far as to sue the magician? That’s almost unheard of. Not for a man named Christopher Roller who sued David Copperfield. Roller claimed that the magician was defying the laws of physics and insisted that Copperfield was using godly powers.
3. As most know, the weather can be pretty bipolar in Colorado. Well, there was a woman who filed a case against a weather station because what she saw on TV was not the right prediction of what happened the following day. Because she did not know that it was going to rain, and she wore light clothing, she was adamant that she caught the flu because the weather forecast was incorrect.
4. When a customer orders coffee, they expect it to be hot. But a lady was not too happy with Ronald McDonald when she sued McDonald’s for her coffee being too steamy in 1992. When trying to place cream and sugar in her cup, the coffee spilled onto her lap, leaving her unhappy. She even claimed that the fast food chain was serving coffee that was unsafe because it was too hot.
5. One would imagine that a Haunted House at Universal Studios would be scary enough for even the highest expectations. A woman named Cleanthi Peters filed a $14,000 case against Universal Studios, expressing that their Haunted House caused her severe mental stress because it was too scary.
6. A woman supposedly won a new car on a radio competition; yet when she arrived at the radio station she only got a toy car. She filed a case for $28,000 against the radio station.
7. Job employment after college can be somewhat difficult, but Trina Thompson really took it to heart. When she graduated from Monroe College, she filed $72,000 in 2009 because she was unable to get a job. She declared that the college did not prepare her well enough, nonetheless she graduated with a 2.7 GPA and only searched for a job for three months.
8. Richard Overton sued the brewing company, Anheuser-Busch, in 1991 because he did not get the lifestyle after drinking the beer that was perceived in the commercial, which included attractive women surrounding a man while he drank a beer. I’d say that’s definitely a textbook appearance vs. reality case.