In my work cleaning up chemical and petroleum spills I regularly encounter people who try to exploit the legal system, so I wasn’t too surprised to be called out to help clean up a fuel spill that had “mysteriously” flowed uphill next to the wall of a house. Naturally I ended up testifying in court when the resident sued for damages. I described my investigation of the spill area and how I determined that spot that we dug out by the house was uphill and not spatially connected to the main spill. The trucking company’s defense attorney argued that the resident had dumped kerosene by his house to pump up his damage claim and I testified that the spot by his house smelled much fresher than the spot by the road. The passive aggressive part was taking a picture of the cleanup that I could describe by identifying the plaintiff as the “guy wearing a neck brace” which exactly fits the popular image of someone who would fabricate a personal injury claim.