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A few days ago I wrote this post about a crazy law in Georgia:

In Georgia there is a law that if a woman is unmarried by the age of 28 her father can auction her off and she will be forced to marry the highest bidder.

Someone did this in 1998 and when the daughter refused to go through with the wedding, the winner of the auction sued for breach of contract and won.  The judge ruled that the daughter did not object at the time of the auction and was thus estopped from claiming she wasn’t a party to the transaction.

The daughter was not required to marry the man, but she was required to pay damages.  The judge ruled that she would have been within her rights to seek a divorce, and so the plaintiff couldn’t claim he was losing a long, happy marriage.  But, he did award damages, in the amount of $250 based on the value of consummating the relationship, which the judge said the contract required.

I made it up.  By the title “People are Stupid,” I meant people who blindly accept facts presented on anonymous blogs.  You know…you guys.  :-)