Recently, the city of Bnei Brak has been cracking down on shop owners who display their merchandise on the streets. This caused many stores to keep all their merchandise inside to avoid fines, crowding the store. This is especially true of fruit and vegetable stores.
One such fruits and vegetable shop made an offer to a neighboring store to buy his space so he could expand. Since he could no longer put his merchandise outside, his store was not big enough. Buying the neighboring store would allow him enough space to operate.
Despite various pressures applied by the fruit guy, and by known crime families on his behalf, the store owner refused all offers.
Eventually he could not take the threats any longer, so he went to Rav Wosner and laid it all out before him, describing the threats. Rav Wosner told him to open a case with the beis din and send a summons to the fruit guy.
The fruit guy refused to appear before the beis din, despite having been summoned a few times. All the while, he continued trying to put pressure and threats on the neighboring store to sell.
Rav Wosner’s response to the refusal of the fruits guy to appear before beis din while continuing his harassment was to say “don’t worry. If he refuses to be judged on this below, there is also a judgement up above.”
A few days later the fruits and vegetables guy died of a heart attack.