(sipping loudly) - I just wasted five seconds
of your time, sue me. (laughs) Okay, well that would
be a pretty dumb reason to sue me but that
would be about a hundred times smarter than the things
these people sued over. Make sure you're sitting
down, they get pretty dumb. (gavel smacking)
(whistling) - [Man] Hey. - Here are the 10 dumbest
things people sued over. (gavel smacking) Number 10 are Missing Pants. (gavel smacking) Found 'em. On May 3, 2005, 54 year old administrative law judge Roy Pearson Junior dropped off a pair of gray dress
pants at Custom Cleaners, a Washington, DC dry cleaning business. Due to an error that involved the pants being sent to another
dry cleaners, they were offered back to the judge two days later. However, Pearson claimed
the pants weren't his. The receipts and tags all
matched up and the pants looked correct, but that
wouldn't convince Pearson and he wound up suing the company for (coughing) 65 million dollars. The case was well documented in the media, especially after a recess
was needed when the plaintiff broke down in tears over the psychological torment of not having his
special pants with him. Those slacks were mine. Shocker, Custom Cleaners won the case but Pearson still to
this day says the pants that they tried to give him aren't his. Hey Pearson, you're kind
of missing the point. You're a little bit nuts,
don't sue regular people who actually had your pants,
you're losing your mind, go to a mental hospital, okay moving on. (gavel smacking) Number nine is Beer In Real Life. (gavel smacking) Beer commercials are usually super upbeat, targeting men, and often
showing male beer drinkers surrounding by good looking people and having the time of their lives. Of course every sip of
bear doesn't really come with an instant good time,
except that that's something that apparently came as
a bit of a revelation to Richard Overton, who on June 6, 1991 decided to stop the flow of
lies by filing a lawsuit. When I had a sip of this
beer here, there was not ladies all around me, lawsuit. Acting as his own attorney, shocker, Overton sued Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Budweiser and Bud Lite for $10,000 citing emotional stress was caused when beer drinkers realized
that they'd been lied to. He also said the lie had
caused him physical distress as well as financial losses. The case was dismissed,
although Overton continues to claim that he and all beer drinkers are being deceived. I don't know what planet this guy's on but I want to live on it. Crack open a beer, party, party, party. (gavel smacking) Number eight is Pepsi Points. (airplane flying overhead) (gavel smacking) On March 28, 1996 a loyalty
program was launched by Pepsico that allowed
consumers to collect points off their products and
trade them in for premiums such as t-shirts, leather
jackets, and glasses. To advertise Pepsi points
a commercial was aired that humorously claimed that
a Harrier Fighter Jet could be purchased for seven million points. You already know where this is going. Now clearly for the
rest of us it was a gag, but that didn't stop 21
year old business student John Leonard from actually
trying to get one. Along with the 15 points
that he had collected, Leonard mailed a check for $700,008.50 for the remaining points that he needed and waited calmly for his jet,
which never came, how sad. So he sued Pepsico demanding
that they deliver his plane that he felt he rightly deserved. The judge sided with
the soft drink company but many still believe
Leonard was in the right. For those people, let
me ask you a question. Would you really want a fighter jet in this guy's hands,
uh-huh, yeah think about it. He's a little bit loopy. (gavel smacking) Number seven is Too Scary. (heavy breathing) (gavel smacking) Halloween Horror Nights as
Universal Studios Florida is obviously designed to
terrify the pants off people with gory scenes and actors in costumes that make a lot of noise. So they usually only draw
visitors that actually want to be scared, kind of makes sense. Well apparently 57 year
old Cleanthi Peters and her 10 year old granddaughter visited for another reason altogether because they got the fright of their lives courtesy of a chainsaw wielding actor. And they were so traumatized
that they sued the park. Hey honey you want to go to a theme park, I'm sure nothing scary's
going on tonight. (laughs) Peters alleges that while two
of them were exiting a ride, the actor ran out of
the dark and chased them with a loud, albeit chainless tool causing them to fall to the
ground and become petrified. She sued them for $15,000 claiming she suffered psychological trauma. And guess what, the case was thrown out. I don't know what's more stupid here, going to a place that's
called Halloween Horror Nights and expecting Christmas or bringing your 10 year old granddaughter. Just (blubbering). (gavel smacking) Number six is Fake Jordan. (gavel smacking) Many people take looking like a famous celebrity to be a complement. In fact some have even made a decent career out of impersonating them. Well such was not the
case with 51 year old Allen Heckerd who was constantly mistaken for legendary basketball player and Nike spokesperson Michael Jordan. No that wasn't me in Space Jam, get away. In a move that baffled many, Heckerd sued both Jordan and Nike for
416 million dollars each, pulling the number
seemingly out of nowhere and citing defamation,
emotional pain and suffering, and permanent injury as the reasoning. According to the plaintiff, Michael Jordan stole his likeness and
the shoe company was responsible for making the NBA star a household name exponentially
increasing the trauma. Soon after without explanation,
Heckerd dropped the case. Well that's for one of two reasons. Either a, he realized I can't go up against a billion dollar company
like Nike, duh, duh, duh, or he just found his mind again
because clearly he lost it. (gavel smacking) Number five is Personal Injuries. (gavels macking) After attempting to take
his own life by leaping in front of a subway
train on March 7, 1977, 26 year old Melo Stephens Junior was left without a leg and arm and
a part of his other arm. But instead of taking
the fact that he survived the attempt as a positive,
the Manhattan resident decided to file a lawsuit against the New York Transit Authority. Oh sit down for this one. He claimed that the operator of the train was negligent and failed
to even attempt to even slow down the car until it was too late. Well despite the fact
that the suicidal man deliberately put himself in harms way, the Transit Authority couldn't risk standing behind the train
operator and believe it or not quickly settled with
Stephens for $650,000. That just makes me want to puke. But just five years
later, Melo had a second failed suicide attempt,
once again throwing himself off a subway platform. Luckily for New York, this time there were no major injuries. Yep this guy got money,
that's exactly what you want, money in the hands of crazy people. Let's see where that goes. (gavel smacking) Number four is Apple Addiction. (gavel smacking) On June 19, 2013, 36
year old Chris Sevier, an attorney in Nashville,
Tennessee filed a lawsuit against Apple, the colossal
technology company, for $75,000, which sounds
kind of kind of reasonable compared to the other ones. In the suit, Sevier
cited that their services had corrupted his
relationship with his wife through, of all things, giving
him access to pornography. Apparently he tried to visit Facebook.com but accidentally replaced
the word face with a much more vulgar other word, which led to an insatiable addiction
of seeing naked girls, which ended his marriage. His complaint even goes so far as to claim his desire for his wife, was reduced as he realized she wasn't 21 anymore. Sevier says that Apple should
have a pornographic filter already activated on their
devices before consumers buy them so situations
like this can't happen. No Apple, please don't
do that, I mean because that would be censorship
and censorship is bad. Yeah that's the only
reason I care, censorship. (gavel smacking) Number three is the Real Jackass. (gavel smacking) In 1997, 38 year old
electrical lineman Bob Craft, legally changed his name to Jack Ass in an attempt to honor his brother and bring attention to a
cartoon character he created what is wrong with these
people, like Mm-hmm(negative). The Hot Springs, Montana native spent a few years allegedly
bringing honor to the name before, in 2000, MTV began
airing the show Jackass. It was a crude comedy showcasing
gross pranks and stunts. Well in November of 2003, Mr. Ass filed a lawsuit against Viacom,
the media company behind MTV, claiming his wonderful
name had been defamed. And his reputation tarnished
through plagiarizing. Yeah, with a name like
that, so much honor, how could they defile it? The fact that his ridiculous name was used as a title for such a
raunchy show, made Jack feel like he deserved 10 million dollars in damages from the corporation. But sadly for Jack Ass,
his case was tossed out. Man this guy's a fool, what a donkey. See what I did, Jack Ass, moving on. (gavel smacking) Number two is Man Versus Himself. (gavel smacking) People file frivolous
lawsuits all the time targeting major corporations, celebrities, or even their own family members. But it takes something
truly special inside someone for them to target themself. Well that's just what Robert Lee Brock, an inmate at the Indian
Creek Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Virginia
did in March of 1995 when he filed a lawsuit against himself for five million buckaroos. According to Brock, he
violated his own civil rights and religious beliefs on July 1,1993 when he got drunk and was soon after arrested for grand larceny
and breaking and entering. Because he was in jail
for the next 23 years, Brock couldn't earn money to pay himself the five million dollars so he felt the state should
pay for it, and he won. No I'm just kidding,
the case was dismissed because this guy's a nut job. But the judge did point out
that the plan was ingenious. I wouldn't chose to use that word but hey, to each their own. (gavel smacking) And number one is Man Versus God. (gavel smacking) Yeah that's someone you want to go up against, the big man, okay. Many people believe in
and want to serve God, but in this particular
case one man was more interested in serving him court papers. Yeah, great idea, go up against an omnipotent deity, I'm
sure it'll turn out great. On September 14, 2007, 70
year old Ernie Chambers, a serving state senator in Omaha, Nebraska filed a lawsuit against God himself citing the big guy
upstairs had either caused or indirectly caused various disasters, specifically pointing
to floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes,
and deadly plagues. The lawsuit included a
cease and desist order stating that God needed to cease harmful activities and the making
of terroristic threats. Chambers claims he didn't file the suit because he has a problem with the deity, but because he wants to fight off any laws that prevent others from
filing frivolous lawsuits. Ultimately the case was tossed due to God not having a fixed address. (gavel smacking) So that was the 10 dumbest
things people sued over. I just loss some more faith
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