1.Suppose you are visiting your regular hairdresser who runs an old-fashioned barber shop with a heavy barber pole mounted next to the front door. As another customer, Sam, grabs the front door handle to push the door open, the barber pole falls to the ground missing Sam's foot by inches. Sam faints. The hairdresser stops working on your hair and runs to Sam's side. Sam revives almost immediately and stands up with the hairdresser's help. The hairdresser is very apologetic. Sam seems fine and stays to get his hair cut once your cut is finished. A few days later, Sam calls the hairdresser and tells him he can't stop thinking about what happened; that the hairdresser could have killed him and that he is going to sue the hairdresser because it is the hairdresser's responsibility to make sure his barber pole is mounted safely. In this case, did the hairdresser commit a tort? If so, was it an intentional tort or an unintentional tort? Explain your reasoning.

2.Now suppose you are one of the owners of a limited liability corporation that owns some restaurants. One of your waiters takes an order for hot tea from a customer. The waiter places hot water in a tea pot and a teacup with tea bag on the table and turns to get another table's order. As the waiter turns, he bumps into another customer on his way to the restroom. The waiter falls back a bit and jostles the table with the teapot, spilling the hot water into that table's seated customer's lap. That customer, an overweight elderly woman, has to be taken to the hospital by ambulance because of the burns from the spilled hot water. Would this be a tort? If so, would it be an intentional or an unintentional tort? Finally, would you as an owner be personally liable if the customer decided to sue?