Grokey recently sued the city of Lodi, California because a negligently driven garbage truck backed into his car. You can't blame him for thinking he has a good case---after all, the driver admitted that the accident was his fault---except for one little detail: Grokey was the driver. That's right: the klutz smashed up his own car, and is suing the city for $3,600 in damages. The Scoreboard will not insult its readers by explaining why this is unethical.

The city denied his ridiculous claim, and so now Grokey's wife has taken over the suit, despite the fact that you can only sue your spouse in California in divorce actions. One can imagine the scams one could devise if the law permitted otherwise. A really clever garbage truck driver (that is to say, not Curtis Grokey) might commit a tort against his wife that would persuade one of the famously creative and generous California juries to award punitive damages. Still, Rhonda Grokey is forging ahead, asking even more in damages than her husband. "I'm not as nice as he is," she has been quoted as saying.

Maybe not, but she's just as unethical.