Short and to the Point 12 points 1. Homeowner was having trouble with the RCN cable TV box in her basement and requested a technician to remedy the problem. In the process of fixing the issue, the technician noticed an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch next to the cable box. As he was taking a call from his employer, the technician calmly placed the watch in his pocket and took it with him after he completed the job. A few days later, Homeowner was reviewing her security cameras and discovered what the technician had done. Homeowner contacted RCN and filed a formal complaint. RCN investigated and ended up firing the technician, who had worked for the company since its inception. RCN, however, was not successful in retrieving the watch. Accordingly, it has offered Homeowner $2,000, which is approximately half of the market value of the watch. Assume that this is RCN's final offer. Would you recommend that Owner accept it? Why or why not? Explain. 2. Silver Lake Aquatic Merchandise (SLAM) is a retailer of personal watercraft and speedboats. SLAM entered into a valid bilateral contract with Customer to sell him a Wave Ski Model 2200 personal watercraft for $12,000, with delivery in 30 days and a down payment of ten percent. Two weeks after making the down payment, Customer suffered some financial challenges and realized that he could no longer afford to go through with the purchase. Accordingly, he requested the return of his down payment. SLAM, which could get as many of the Wave Ski models as it required from the manufacturer for a wholesale price of $9,000, returned the Wave Ski Model 2200 that it was going to deliver to Customer to its inventory, but refused to refund Customer his deposit. Customer sues SLAM to get back his deposit and SLAM countersues Customer for damages. Who will recover, if anyone, and for how much? Explain. 3. On the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving, shortly before the closing of the supermarket in Washington, DC, Customer realized that she needed more cranberry sauce for dinner the next day. Customer knew exactly what aisle to go to and hurried to get there. But when Customer arrived, Customer realized that the particular space where the cranberry sauce was located was empty. Customer, however, saw that there was cranberry sauce on some shelves down the aisle but slightly out of her reach. She smiled as she realized that at the end of the aisle there was a step ladder. Customer climbed it to get to the cranberry sauce, ignoring the sign that she had read that was attached to the ladder: SHOPPERS KEEP OFF!!! FOR EMPLOYEE USE ONLY Just as Customer reached the top of the step ladder and was reaching for the cranberry sauce, the products on the entire shelf were knocked over by an employee who was operating a forklift on the adjacent aisle. The employee, who was texting at the time and who had been smoking weed through a vaporizer while working (both violations of his employment contract), was not paying attention to what he was doing. He had intended to pull back the forklift rather than push it forward. Will Customer recover against Supermarket? Explain