It's only the third day of March and I doubt we'll see a more ridiculous story this month. For those of you who haven't heard a lawyer/judge, Roy Pearson, for the past two years has been suing a drycleaners $67 million dollars for losing his pants, despite the fact the pants were found a week later. The couple that owns the store offered to buy him a new suit, and then offered him thousands of dollars to drop the case. This guy is suing because the store promised customer satisfaction and did not deliver. The $67 million is supposed to cover the amount of a new suit AND the costs for him to rent a car every weekend and drive to a different cleaners for the next 10 years. This has got to be the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard. How many cars and parking space fees could you pay with just $1 million? I wonder, Roy Pearson, did you as a lawyer ever lose a case in court? Would you think it just if your previous clients sued you on the basis of "He said he would try his best in court to win, but I think he's trying could only be rated as mediocre." If this Pearson wins this case, I don't see much hope in the future of small businesses. To err is human. Perhaps Roy Pearson and Jack Thompson should be shipped off somewhere and they can spend eternity coming up with even wilder and outrageous lawsuits on the world's population as a whole. Just sue everybody at once and get over it.
2 comments:
gah. having worked in 'the business' myself (the dry-cleaning business, that is), I hear your outrage and raise it by 100. you know what this sounds like? it sounds like the sort of fantasy your brain comes up with in the 20 minutes following an angry confrontation with someone: "yeah... and then I'd SUE that asshole.. YEAH! and he'd be all like, oh noooo, my precious business! heh, that'd show HIM!" the thing is, most of us are mature enough to NOT ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH on our lame anger-management daydreams... guess this guy still has to grow up a little.
I hope he slips and falls into a pile of shit while wearing a $1000 suit and no cleaners in the area will take his business. Who then would he sue? The pile of shit? Hmm... I wonder if I could illustrate that tastefully...
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