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Originally Posted by bwind22
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/...n_dollar_pants
For anyone that doesn't feel like reading the article, here's the summary.
A same day dry-cleaning business lost a pair of pants belonging to a customer. A couple days later, the customer asked them to pay $1000 to cover the whole cost of the suit, but the dry cleaners had since found the pair of pants and refused to pay the $1000. That was when the unhappy customer decided to sue them... for 65 million dollars! (The article details how he arrived at this number.)
Here's the kicker... The unhappy customer is a US Judge!!! It makes me absolutely sick that someone sworn to uphold the law is trying to take advantage of it in this way! Being a judge, you'd think he'd be the first to recognize that there's absolutely no chance in hell that a lost pair of pants should warrant anything more than they cost to begin with, yet here he is... Trying to take advantage of the system like so many other schmucks out there. Fucking disgusting.
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It makes the man involved a joke and I hope he loses his position over it but the legal system itself isn't a joke at all. It's people who make a decision to fleece each other in order to obtain the most money, not just judges. If he wins I'll consider it a sad day in legal history but the legal system itself shouldn't be blamed. Should we not be able to take matters like this to court no matter who we are? I'm glad he has a right to file such a stupid suit, as long as he doesn't win.