In our area there was a man who used a wheel chair and a lawyer to sue dozens of restaurants and shops. The amount he sued for was too small for the owners to hire their own lawyers so most settled. Some simply went out of business. A few fought him and all of them won. Finally, the judge told him to stop.

In this case, he claimed to be doing it in order to force more places to conform to the law but his methods were quite nasty. In many cases he merely drove by the site, noted in his diary that it did not conform, and later was able to sue for a daily amount multiplied by the number of days since he made the diary entry.

Apparently he was stopped just in time as we overheard more than one conversation in which it was mentioned that he might be found one day washed up on the beach.

Bev and Jerry