Your government is never, ever culpable for its screwups and messing up your life.

God forbid.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Fifth Circuit: Police Not Liable for Plants Mistakenly Destroyed in Drug Raid:

"The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit against a sheriff in Harrison County, Mississippi who destroyed $225,000 worth of kenaf plants during a drug raid. The sheriff and his deputies mistook the plants for marijuana. They seized the plants even after a sample tested negative for THC.

Marion Waltman, the owner of the plants, was asking to be compensated for the destruction of his property..."