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I stink at taking my dry cleaning in. For example, the dress I wore on New Year's Eve is STILL riding around in the trunk of my car, getting filthier by the day as it shares space with a portable grill for tailgating one weekend, dirty laundry headed for my parents' house another weekend, and so on for the last seven months. Turns out one woman's neglected clo* is a man's potential goldmine... well, he tried, anyway. In case you missed it, a DC man took some pants to the dry cleaner's, they lost the pants, then recovered the pants... or a similar pair of pants... and he sued them for $54 million for his "mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort." In a shocking decision, the DC court ruled today in favor of the dry cleaner, and the disgruntled customer will even have to pay court costs for the lawsuit. What's the most ridiculous suit you've ever come across?

*A friend of mine, when he was about 8 years old, used the word "clo" as the singular of clothes... I think it works, and can't believe it didn't catch on!

12:22 - June 25, 2007

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