There’s no way this ends well

So a Chicago real estate company decides to sue a woman for a tweet she wrote, seen primarily by her by 20 followers, for $50,000.

The $50,000 line? “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”

Kudos for them for using social media monitoring tools to look for brand mentions. Though the off-the-cuff remark from Jeffrey Michael of Horizon:

We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization.

Hardly a line likely to get you any sympathy.

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