A San Francisco cab driver who chased a mugger with his cab and pinned him against the wall with the bumper, fracturing his leg, was sued by the mugger, who won $24,595. The award was later overturned, but the cab company had to spend $68,000 defending the case.

Another man who fell through a skylight while burglarizing a building in Redding, California, was awarded $250,000 in damages.

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