2 scenarios:

Scenario 1:

Analyze all potential liability and defenses.

Steve and Tom are big fans of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). After watching a fight, Tom says that he could be an UFC fighter. Steve said that it would be impossible because he couldn't even beat him.

After a lot of good-natured posturing, Tom and Steve agree to have a UFC style fight. During the fight, Steve punches Tom and ruptures his spleen. Tom is taken to the hospital for treatment of his injury, and misses a week of work.

Scenario 2:

Analyze all potential liability and defenses.

Elise, a college student, thought it would be funny to blow cigarette smoke in the faces of the staunchest anti-smokers she knew. The flaw in her plan was she was a novice who did not know how to smokehow to hold a cigarette, what it means to inhale. Elise thought she could start with basic smoking and then move to blowing smoke in rings. She acquired a package of cigarettes and, sitting on her dormitory bed, lit one to practice this new activity. Lighting a cigarette, as Elise knew, violated dormitory rules: Elise thought she was alone and that nobody would know what she was doing. Elise found inhalation difficult and decided to abandon her malevolent plan, but not before her cigarette smoke wafted into a nearby room occupied by Johanna. Johanna experienced coughing and shortness of breath.