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10-23-2009, 03:56 PM
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This is a true case of believe it or not. Christopher Roller, a resident of Minnesota sued David Blaine and David Copperfield – demanding that they reveal their secret magic tricks to him. He demanded 10% of their total income for life. The reason for the suit is that Roller believes that the magicians are defying the laws of physics, and thereby using godly powers. But it gets worse. Roller is suing not just because the magicians are using God’s powers – he is suing because he thinks he is God and therefore it is his powers they are stealing.
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10-23-2009, 04:21 PM
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That's awesome, Pam! I did some sniffing; Copperfield's (lawyers') response is here. The court's decision is here.
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10-24-2009, 11:31 PM
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10-24-2009, 11:34 PM
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Plaintiff is running for President of the United States in 2008 with Bill Gates as his running mate. • Plaintiff claims he is Jesus Christ. • Plaintiff claims he is God. • Plaintiff claims that Katie Couric and Celine Dion are his wives and are going to have his children. • Plaintiff claims there is a movie coming out soon about his life that stars Tom Hanks. • Plaintiff claims he has killed all of his enemies. • Plaintiff claims he will father 1,000,000 babies.
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10-25-2009, 12:04 AM
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For a while in the 1990s, Anheuser-Busch, the producers of Budweiser, ran a series of ads in which two beautiful women come to life in front of two truck drivers. A Michigan man bought a case of the beer, drank it, and failed to see two women materialize. Cue the lawsuit. He sued the company for false advertising, asking for a sum in excess of $10,000. Thankfully the court dismissed the suit and the man remained penniless and dateless.
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10-26-2009, 10:09 AM
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I'm too lazy today to look things up, but I remember something on the news in Orlando a few years back about a teen-age boy whose latest hobby was to jump across parking garages - jumping buildings was made popular by some Madonna video or that first James Bond movie with Daniel Craig in it... - Anyway, he fell 6 stories to his death and his dad is suing the parking garages for not putting a "Do Not Jump" sign or some such.
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This happened right before I was born, so if the story is a little short on detail, please forgive me.
My Father and Mother were out one night, club hopping with some friends. While driving between clubs and going down a narrow rode, a homeless man tried to commit suicide, by jumping in front of my Fathers car. My Father was a semi-successful stock car race driver, at the time, and avoided hitting the man. Unfortunately the car behind did not not miss. The family of the homeless man sued the driver of the car that struck the poor "forgotten man" (that may be a hint of how old this story is) and also my father, because they felt, that because of his skills as a driver, he should have been able to protect the man from the car, that ultimately took his life. I didn't take two minutes to throw this case out of court, but they used to do thing different back then.
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10-26-2009, 04:52 PM
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The McDonald's suit wasn't really all that outrageous. In the past ten years, over seven hundred other customers had been scalded by McDonald's coffee, which was kept about 20 degrees hotter than the industry average. McDonald's knew they had a problem, but they covered the problem up rather than fix it. When this customer asked McDonald's to cover only her medical bills, they told her to go pound sand.
That's a wonderful way to get a judgment of punitive damages (which, incidentally, was later trimmed on appeal).
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