Hoist by His Own Petard/Real Life: Difference between revisions

** Talk about irony. Literally hoisted by one's own invention.

* The 2009 Cincinnati Bengals played their final game of the regular season against the New York Jets. The Jets would only enter the playoffs if they won, but the Bengals already had their best position locked up and so rested their players and visibly did not play hard to win the game. The Jets won handily. The following week the Jets played Cincinnati again, and eliminated them from the playoffs.

* [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930211&slug=1684832 Drug suspect kills self with own shotgun booby trap.]

* In 1982, [[Universal]] Studios sued [[Nintendo]] of America on the grounds that their ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' arcade game was a rip-off of Universal's ''[[King Kong]]''. However, Nintendo's lawyer [[Did Do the Research]], and found out that Universal had previously won a lawsuit declaring King Kong was in the public domain. The judge ruled that Universal had acted in bad faith by threatening Nintendo's licensees, and Nintendo received $57,000 (plus damages and attorney's fees) as a result.