A Dollar General employee with diabetes started feeling the symptoms of a hypoglycemic episode while working at the cash register.
She grabbed a $1.69 orange juice from the store and drank it to stabilize her blood sugar, then paid for it after the medical emergency passed.
She did pay for it.
But the company fired her anyway, calling it “grazing” because she consumed the item before purchase.
Later, a jury sided with her and awarded her $277,565 total, including $27,565 in back pay and $250,000 in compensatory damages.
In North Dakota, a farmer was tragically killed in a sudden car crash, leaving his wife and children behind with 1,400 acres of crops just days away from being lost to winter.
Within days, roughly 75 neighboring farmers rallied together.
They showed up with their own equipment and 42 trucks, then worked nonstop around the clock to harvest the entire crop for the family, completely free of charge.