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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
The man pictured below is a massive fuckstain.
If you see this man please to not attempt to engage him in conversation as he is considered to be a massive fuckstain and extremely stupid.
Just kick him in the nuts.
Rob posted earlier about this and I just had to follow up.
“Judge” Roy L. Person Jr. broke down in court yesterday. Over a pair of pants. I’m going to actually hand this over to the Washington post for a moment. I’ve bolded the more amusing bits.
Before trial began yesterday in the case of the D.C. judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners after they lost his pants, the most extraordinary fact was Roy Pearson’s demand for $65 million in damages.
That was before Pearson, an administrative law judge, broke down while testifying about the emotional pain of having the cleaners give him the wrong pants. It was before an 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair told of being chased out of the cleaners by an angry owner. And it was before she compared the owners of Custom Cleaners in open court to Nazis.
“I knew it: It’s all my fault,” said the reporter from German television who was sitting next to me.
The global import of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners was evident from the start. The courtroom was packed with members of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association and reporters from print and broadcast outlets in at least five countries. The guy from the tort reform lobby handed out bright green buttons protesting the $65 million “pantsuit.” The gent from Fox TV sported neon-color paisley pants.
And Pearson, who by his account has spent more than 1,400 hours preparing his case, arrived in a black pinstripe suit. I hope he won’t sue me if I mention that the pants could have used a pressing.
“Never before in recorded history have a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices,” Pearson said in his opening statement. You don’t get a lot of firsts in recorded history in D.C. Superior Court, though I should add that Marion Barry was in the building for his day in traffic court, and the pants suit easily outdrew the ex-mayor-for-life.
The “willful and malicious conduct” Pearson described consisted of this: In 2005, Pearson was starting his new job as a judge and therefore needed to start wearing suits again after a couple of years of unemployment. He brought five suits in for alterations because he’d put on 20 pounds and needed to have the pants let out. Four suits came back fine. One came back without the pants.
Pearson says the Chung family — Korean immigrants who came here from the charcoal factories of Seoul in 1992 and now own three cleaners, including the one a short walk from Pearson’s place in the Fort Lincoln section of Northeast — had no intention of living up to the sign in their shop that said “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” Therefore, Pearson said, he had no choice but to take on “the awesome responsibility” of suing the Chungs on behalf of every resident of the District of Columbia.
Judge Judith Bartnoff went to remarkable lengths to try to keep Pearson moving along while disabusing him of the notion that he represented either the tens of thousands of people who have used Custom Cleaners or the half million people in Washington who might theoretically be at risk of being dissatisfied with the shop’s service.
From the start, Pearson kept referring to himself as “we,” as if he were representing everyone in town. Bartnoff was having none of it: “Mr. Pearson, you are not a ‘we.’ You are an ‘I.’ “
Defense lawyer Christopher Manning depicted Pearson as a bitter, wildly litigious man who emerged from a recent divorce with financial difficulties and who held a deep grudge against the Chungs stemming from a previous run-in. Back in 2002, after the cleaners lost another pair of his pants, Pearson was compensated with a check for $150. The Chungs then tried to ban him from their shop, but Pearson implored them to let him come back because Custom was the only cleaners within walking distance of his home, and he doesn’t have a car.
Pearson presented a series of witnesses who told of unhappy experiences at Custom. Their satisfaction, they said, was hardly guaranteed. But every one of Pearson’s witnesses told the defense that in fact, they would have been entirely satisfied if they had been given credit for free cleaning or compensation in the amount of the value of their damaged or lost garment. Most of the witnesses said they’d generally had good experiences at Custom, and not one of Pearson’s witnesses said anything about deserving millions of dollars.
Witnesses depicted Soo Chung, the mom in the Mom and Pop operation, as someone who was pleasant and professional — until a dispute arose, at which point she told several of the customers that it was they who had brought in damaged goods, not the shop that had caused any problem with an article of clothing.
Grace Hewell, a retired congressional staffer, said Jin Chung, Soo’s husband, “chased me out of the store” when she complained that her suit pants “looked like they had been washed” and no longer fit properly. “At 89, I’m not ready to be chased,” she said. “But I was in World War II as a WAC, so I think I can take care of myself. Having lived in Germany and knowing the people who were victims of the Nazis, I thought he was going to beat me up. I thought of what Hitler had done to thousands of Jews.”
After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much.
“These are not my pants,” Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. “I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs.”
“And she said, ‘These are your pants.’ ”
Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.
When he returned, he called that moment when Chung offered him the wrong pants “a Twilight Zone experience,” and again, he welled up and had to halt the proceedings. Pearson wanted to submit the remainder of his testimony in writing, but Judge Bartnoff wouldn’t hear of it.
The trial is expected to end today. Pearson has reduced his claim to $54 million. But he told the judge that he also wants to be awarded attorney’s fees, even though he represents himself. He would like to be paid at a rate of between $390 and $425 an hour.
Earlier in the day, Pearson called his 30-year-old son as a witness. The son testified that he was surprised that his father had filed this suit. “I know you don’t like litigation at all,” he said.
Boy, that is a lot of bold text but since the bolded bits are so damn funny I couldn’t help myself.
Who does this cockholster think he is pretending to represent all of D.C.? Hell if he wants to represent them all let him. It should just mean that if he wins he should have to split it evenly will every god damned resident.
Oh look, here is the record of his divorce. It is a fun read I’ll tell ya. The one bit that stood out for me is:
The trial court found that husband was substantially responsible for “excessive driving
up” of the legal costs by “threatening both wife and her lawyer with disbarment [sic],” and
creating unnecessary litigation. Consequently, it awarded wife $12,000 in legal fees to be paid
by husband.
Looks like he has been an unreasonable fuckstick for a while now. Hey junior, being a “judge” does not entitle you to abuse the system.
I Just Don’t Get It
Friday, June 8th, 2007What am I missing here?
First, Paris Hilton gets out of jail after 3 or so days of her sentence because the prison food is beneath her. Sure, she’s probably going back to jail, but that really doesn’t undermine the fact that she was, in fact, released. That decision was actually made.
Now I hear about a judge, yes a J-U-D-G-E judge, who is suing a dry-cleaner over the loss of a pair of pants.
Not unusual, you might say, but the fact of the matter is he’s suing for $54 Million. I’ll give that a chance to sink in.
$54 Million.
It’s a pair of pants.
There’s a scene in the film The Last Boy Scout where Bruce Willis makes fun of Damon Wayans’ $600 pants. I wonder what he’d say about this.
Anyway, here’s the story.
Judge Sues Dry Cleaners For $54 Million
Remember that judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants? Now, he’s asking for only $54 million, according to a May 30 court filing in D.C. Superior Court. (Click here for the AP story; click here and here for prior Law Blog posts.)
Roy Pearson, a D.C. administrative law judge, first sued Custom Cleaners over a pair of pants that went missing two years ago. He was seeking about $65 million under the D.C. consumer-protection laws and almost $2 million in common law claims.
He is now focusing his claims on signs in the shop that have since been removed. The suit alleges that the Chungs, the shop’s owners, committed fraud and misled consumers with signs that claimed “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service.” But Chris Manning, the Chungs’ attorney, says that the fraud claim carries a “reasonable person” standard, and no reasonable person would interpret them to be an unconditional promise of satisfaction, he says.
Pearson, who is representing himself, said in an e-mail to the AP reporter that from the start, the case’s focus was based on the “false, misleading and fraudulent advertisements displayed by the Chungs.”
Skank Hilton Released
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Ok, this idiot drives drunk. More than once. Gets arrested and sentenced to 45 days. Serves 5 days, and is released due to “medical reasons.”
WTF?
Sure, now she’s under house arrest. Big fucking deal. She gets to hang out at home for a month.
She’s a God damn worhtless human being. She never did anything to deserve to be famous, yet people adore this piece of trash.
Now, she’s walking proof that the law doesn’t apply to celebrities. Our society is so obsessed with these idiots that we let them get away with whatever they want. Oh, poor Paris Hilton. She’s too good for prison.
She’s sick, so fucking what? If it were anyone else, they’d have been sent to the prison infirmary.
God damn it, this pisses me off. Here, read the article from CNN.com:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Paris Hilton was let out of jail Thursday morning, days after she began serving what was to have been a 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Hilton must wear a monitoring bracelet and remain at her home for another 40 days, said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Medical considerations “played a part” in the decision to offer Hilton home confinement for the remainder of her sentence, Whitmore said. (Watch Whitmore detail Hilton’s deal
)
He said privacy rules prohibited him from giving details about the medical issues, but celebrity Web site TMZ.com earlier quoted sources saying Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.
Whitmore said that after “extensive consultation with medical personnel” it was decided to offer Hilton “reassignment” to home confinement, which she and her attorneys accepted. (Watch Hilton enter jail
Part of the deal was that her original sentence of 45 days, which had been reduced to 23 days if she showed good behavior behind bars, would be restored to the full length. Although she reported to the jail just before midnight Sunday and departed in the early hours of Thursday, she was given credit for five days, he said.
Whitmore said the decision to send Hilton home was made by a panel of officials in the sheriff’s department, although the judge who sentenced her was advised of the move.
Hilton was arrested on charges of drunken driving in September.
In January, she pleaded no contest to a charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years’ probation and had her license suspended.
In February, she was caught driving on a suspended license, which later was ruled a probation violation.
Hilton entered jail Sunday after attending the MTV Movie Awards, where she answered questions from the press and was the subject of host Sarah Silverman’s jokes.
Scumbags Of The Day
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Now, this happened about a year ago – but I just found out about it, so it’s blogworthy.
The Scum of The Day award goes to a pair of gentlemen named Timothy Webber and Josh Dotts, who have been charged with the murder of a homeless woman. The pair of winners allegedly came into Nashville for the sole purpose of harassing the homeless.
Tara Cole was sleeping on a dock when the two Samaritans approached her, and without waking her up rolled her into the river where she subsequently drowned.
Webber was previously arrested for urinating on a Police car, and resisting arrest.
Nobody really knows for sure why they came into Nashville to harass the homeless. That’s still up in the air. Maybe they watched my favorite film -The Fisher King- and were inspired by the two insipid rich kids who attacked Jack Lucas as he was about to off himself. Who knows. All I know is that they’re in prison – and here’s the article:
Homeless Slaying Suspect Has Violent History
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There are still questions as to why police said two men specifcally came to Nashville to assault homeless people.
The two men ended up charged with murder in the death of a person living on the streets.When Timothy Webber was booked in Nashville on Thursday evening, it was not the first time he’s had a mug shot taken.
The Lebanon resident was arrested twice before he was charged with the murder in the death of Tara Cole.Lebanon Police Chief Scott Bowen described Webber’s prior actions as “violent behavior.”Nothing in Webber’s criminal history indicates prior acts of violence toward the homeless.
While Josh Dotts, who police said is the accused accomplice in Cole’s death, has no criminal history in Lebanon, Webber has been charged with domestic assault and resisting arrest in a case that many on Lebanon’s police force said they remember to this day.
An officer said he awoke to find Webber and another man urinating on his patrol car.Police said that action showed just how bold Webber can be.
Investigators in Nashville said it was Webber who rolled Cole into the river from the dock where she was sleeping .They said Cole drowned as a result.Police said the death likely would never have been solved if the men and the two friends with them that night hadn’t turned on each other.
After video of the four was broadcast on local television, investigators said the two friends called police not wanting to be implicated in the crime.Even Webber turned on Dotts, his accused accomplice, according to police.
They said Webber told them it was Dotts, not he, who rolled Cole into the water.The only two who really know what happened that night are Webber and Dotts, who are both in jail.One of the other two men, Corey Cothran, said he didn’t know anything.
It is unclear what the other men know about what happened that night.They are considered witnesses, and have not been charged.
Michael Vick – Role Model For Today’s Youth
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007A lot of kids look up to sports figures as heroes. Generally, it’s a good thing. Athletes can inspire kids to go all out and succeed. They show kids that with hard work and practice, they can succeed in life no matter what background they come from.But, NFL Quarterback Michael Vick paints a different picture.
Vick Bets Big On Dog Fights
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was at a dog fight in 2000 and is “one of the heavyweights” in the sport, ESPN reported. The network Sunday cited a police informant whom a dog-fighting investigator called “extremely reliable.”
“That’s who bets a large dollar,” the informant said on the show “Outside the Lines.” “And they have the money to bet large money. As I’m talking about large money, 30 to 40 thousand, even higher. He’s one of the heavyweights.”
When asked how he knows Vick bets that amount, the informant said, “because I’ve seen it.”
The informant said his dog beat Vick’s dog in 2000, the year before Vick was chosen by the Falcons with the first overall pick in the NFL draft.
Investigator David Hunt said information from the informant has “resulted in the arrest of several individuals over the past few years, numerous search warrants, as well as convictions.”
Surry County (Va.) Commonwealth attorney Gerald Poindexter said Friday he is confident charges will be brought in the investigation of a possible dog-fighting operation at a house then owned by Vick. Dog fighting is a felony in Virginia.
Police raided the rural home April 25 as part of a drug investigation. They seized 66 dogs, 55 of them pit bulls, and equipment that could be associated with dog fighting.
Vick has said he let a cousin, Davon Boddie, live at the house, and he didn’t know a large kennel on the property could be involved in criminal activity.
I used to actually like Michael Vick. I used to love watching him play. Now, I’ll be damned if I watch another NFL game if he’s in it.
If there’s one thing I can’t stand (and there’s quite a bit more than one thing) it’s animal abuse. Dog fighting is one of the nasty secrets of American society. It dates back as far as the 1600’s. But, that doesn’t make it right. It’s a vile and cruel practice and anyone who participates in it should be locked away for good.
Plus, he’s so full of shit. How could he not know what that property was being used for? He claims innocence, even when eyewitnesses place him there.
This is a guy who kids are supposed to look up to. He’s supposed to be a role model.
And then there’s the super-genius Clinton Portis, running back for the Washington Redskins who condones Vick’s crime.
Clinton Portis Proves He’s A Douchenozzle
Just weeks after Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick’s Virginia property was raided and evidence of a massive, illegal dogfighting operation was found, another National Football League star jumped into the fray. Defending Vick’s alleged involvement in dogfighting, Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis declared, “I think people should mind their business…I don’t know if he was fighting dogs or not, but it’s his property, his dog; if that’s what he wants to do, do it.“
After making those statements, Portis was advised that dog-fighting is a felony, to which he gave his opinion that it wasn’t too bad of a crime.
Portis should be locked up with Vick for being an idiot.
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