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In a Scottish court, a man has been successfully sued for \u00a33,500 after the person whose car he crashed into during an epileptic fit was traumatized by his contorted face<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I’ll bet you Mrs. Rennie (the plaintiff, or “pursuer”) is quite a sight first thing in the morning herself.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a Scottish court, a man has been successfully sued for \u00a33,500 after the person whose car he crashed into during an epileptic fit was traumatized by his contorted face….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131342,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/searching-for-seizures.html","url_meta":{"origin":2824,"position":0},"title":"Searching for Seizures","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Aug-16 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I would never suggest that someone should be condemned to Hell, but the epileptic author of this piece certainly has some reasons to be mightily torqued off at Sean Hannity.Separate from that, watching the video of his broadcast and commentary is like a trip through the Looking Glass. 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