“A woman reported ‘trampled’ last Friday by Wal-Mart shoppers desperate for $29.87 DVD players has a long history of claiming injuries from Wal-Marts and other businesses where she worked or shopped.” Patricia Vanlester, 46, has pressed numerous claims over the years of having slipped and fallen in stores or having objects fall on her “under some of her various legal last names: Rastellini, Findley, Crabtree, Platt and Vanlester”. Ten of the earlier claims have been against Wal-Mart itself. Her recent report of having been “trampled by a herd of elephants” near the electronics display has been widely picked up by news agencies and commentators around the world as emblematic of American commercial excess. (Tony Pipitone, WKMG (Central Florida) Channel 6 News, Dec. 4).