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Please answer all the questions about this scenario and give an explanation of why? 1. What are the Torts? Explain the Torts. and Why? 2.

Please answer all the questions about this scenario and give an explanation of why?

1. What are the Torts? Explain the Torts. and Why?

2. "Find the Torts" Indentify the Torts?

3. How many torts are there in this scenario? written out Line by line. Explain?

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Harry delivers pizzas by truck. Two weeks ago, Harry's customer Bill bought a pizza while distracted by a cell phone conversation.

Bill left the vehicle with Harry's pizza without paying because he was distracted. Harry raced to Bill and shook his fist under his nose, saying, "Pay for that pizza right now you miserable stinking pizza thief or I will make you sorry you were ever born!" Bill pays Harry $5 more than the pizza costs, visibly disturbed. Harry takes Bill's additional money without counting it, furious. Bill pursues Harry to beg for his pizza money back after realizing he overpaid. Harry tells Bill to sit in his pizza truck while he considers whether to return the $5. Once inside the truck cab, Bill realizes that the door handle doesn't function and that he's confined. Harry thinks, "I thought the Easy Terms Auto Repair Shop fixed that thing," but he waits five more minutes before opening the door and letting Bill out. Harry advises Bill to fly a kite if he doesn't like his money and refuses to return it.

Bill visits Sid, his lawyer. Bill accuses Harry of being a child molester and a crook for stealing his $5. Sid then calls Harry and tells him that he will tell the local criminal prosecutor to file child molester charges against Harry unless Harry pays Bill $5 and Sid and Bill $25 more to keep quiet about Harry being a child molester. Bill offers Sid a traffic ticket to handle for him while at Sid's office. Bill claims he didn't deserve the penalty since his twin sister, Jill, who looks like him, was driving the automobile. Bill claims Jill lied when she got the ticket. Sid forgets the ticket in his pocket. Bill is arrested the next week on a non-appearance warrant for Jill, which would not have been obtained if Sid had remembered the ticket. Bill was arrested for not paying one ticket and another for running a stop sign a month earlier. Bill was drunk when he ran that stop sign, and a pregnant mother, Anne, was about to step off the curb when she saw Bill weave over toward her and pulled back just in time to avoid being run over, but she was so shaken up by the near collision that she miscarried her baby. Bill told the police officer who told him about Anne's baby that he was happy the miscarriage had happened, that he had enough problems of his own, and that Anne should fly a kite if she didn't like it.

Jay, another pizza client, asks Harry whether his truck pizzas are fat-free the next day. Harry: "Fat-free pizzas? Truck-based sales? Do you

kidding? "They're fat-free." Harry said this in a joking manner, as if only a complete idiot or fool would believe that any pizza sold from a truck was fat free, but Jay, who was raised in a monastery and takes everything literally, believes Harry.

Jay subsequently eats the pizza, assuming it to be fat-free, but he dies from an allergic reaction to the fatty pizza owing to his unique health condition, "Jack Sprat-itis," leaving Faye and their two children Ray and Kay. Even after realizing Harry took $5 from him by accident, Bill is still furious. Bill rages at Harry's residence. He tosses a rock through Harry's window from the sidewalk, but it goes through the house and out the other window without hitting anything. Bill shouts, "Harry is a no-good child-molesting thief!" as loudly as he could, but all the neighbors heard was "Harry is a no good....thief!" The neighbors believe this and refuse to help Harry when his house burns down that night due to a loose electrical wire the Good Service Power Company forgot to fix when its drunk worker was there eight years earlier to fix a different loose wire at the same spot and left without fixing the wire that needed fixing. Harry phones Bill pretending to be Ed McMahon phoning for the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes after discovering Bill yelled insults and threw the brick. Harry (posing as Ed McMahon) informs Bill that he has won $1 Million but must claim it at the post office immediately. Bill speeds and hits Ray and Kay, two orphaned children, at a crossing, gravely wounding them. Bill couldn't see the two youngsters because they were hiding under a blanket and acting invisible. Bill believed it was rags in a crosswalk and would have ran over the blanket on his way to the post office even if he wasn't rushing. Bill calls Harry, pretending to be a newspaperman, and tells him that Harry's father was arrested on America's Most Wanted and committed suicide on live TV.

Hearing this devastates Harry. In his sadness, he quits the pizza company and offers to sell it to Larry for $1000, saying he sells $1000 worth of pizzas a week. Harry sells $800 per week. Harry could have sold $1000 worth of pizza, but the new pizza oven he bought from Pizza King Oven Manufacturing doesn't work because the thermostat was installed wrong at the factory, so two out of every ten pizzas burn and can't be sold.

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