One Banksy aficionado, certain she could distinguish a fake from the real thing, quietly scolded the man for knocking off the artist's work.
Anna Sui, one of the designers taking Forever 21 to court for knocking off their clothes, seems to have been revitalized by the scent of battle.
The Bulls get a nod for having their dream season end in a nightmare, writes David Haugh in The Chicago Tribune, but it's more sporting to give the 76ers their due for knocking off the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls.
Jerkens, known for knocking off big favorites – his Beau Purple, another Dreyfus horse, three times beat Kelso, a five-time horse of the year – was also fond of noting that "the check for second place isn't so bad either".
The rare decisions, like the famous one against Furniture Masters for the counterfeiting of the Donghia Ghost chair in 1995, or the one against Van Klassens for knocking off Weatherend benches in 1993, have been bankrolled by large companies.
"You know how you tell a New York woman," she'd say, before leaping out of the car at 34th Street to make for Ohrbach's, a store famous for knocking off Paris fashions and offering them for a fraction of the price, a tactic she much admired.
