[driftless]

Check out snopes.com. Most of those stories are urban legends.

[2sheep]

I've never been to snopes.com that I know of and don't follow urban legends or joke sites.  Here is a link from Uncle Bill.  True stories:

Win at all costs, the rule of law is dead

Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

[Thommas]

I don't know of the accuracy of the mentioned cases, but in California, in the early '80s, there was a similar case to the burglar trapped in the home that awarded nearly a million bucks. The case was similar, but the one in California had the perp trapped under the malfunctioning garage door. I actually read that one...