Isabelle Hood
Think about this for a second: You’re a man named Allen Heckard, and everywhere you go, people mistake you for the famous basketball player, Michael Jordan. “Are you Michael Jordan?” they’d ask, pointing and whispering. But you’re not. You’re just Allen.
Allen didn’t think this was funny or cool. In fact, it started to bother him a lot. He felt bad because of all the confusion. It got so bad that he decided to sue Michael Jordan and Nike, the company that makes a lot of Jordan’s sports gear. He said they had caused him emotional problems.
But there was a twist in this tale. Even though people kept thinking he was Michael Jordan, Allen didn’t really look like him. So, the court decided that he couldn’t sue Michael Jordan or Nike for his problem. And just like that, Allen’s case was dropped. It just goes to show that being mistaken for a celebrity isn’t always as fun as it might seem!
Have you ever had a terrible date? Most people have and they generally try to forget about it as quickly as possible. However, in 2017, a 37-year-old man from Austin, Texas, decided to handle his less-than-ideal date in an unconventional way. His date was so engrossed in her phone while they were watching “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2” in a movie theater, that he felt the need to sue her for ruining his cinematic experience.
The man was so upset with his date’s incessant texting that he claimed it was breaking the theater rules and greatly diminishing his enjoyment of the movie. He found it so offensive that he decided to take her to court over it. He wasn’t suing for a large sum of money, but rather for the $17.31 that he had spent on her cinema ticket. His claim was simple: if she couldn’t respect the cinema rules and his company, he wanted his money back.
His date, likely taken aback yet eager to close this peculiar chapter, agreed to pay him back for her ticket, but only if he promised to leave her be. Happy with this settlement, the discontented moviegoer withdrew his lawsuit. The incident added a curious spin to an already unfortunate event. Yet, in the end, it seems everyone received their fair share – well, at least the price of a movie ticket in this cinematic saga of dating gone awry!
