Maybe it’s the state of the economy, with buyers on the lookout for ways to cut corners and cheaters trying to avoid honest work by coming up with more and more schemes to fleece the unsuspecting. Or maybe it’s the Internet, where distance and anonymity breed a peculiar mixture of trust and vulnerability. Or maybe we’re just more gullible than we used to be, or at least more willing to talk about being...
News comes from California that a jury awarded Tom Selleck $187,000 after the actor supposedly was tricked into buying a lame show horse for his daughter. Purchase price for the 10-year-old horse, named Zorro, was $120,000; the additional jury award was compensation for board and other expenses since the purchase three years ago. Still to be determined at this writing is whether punitive damages will...
