Comments on: $54M Lost Pants Suit Brings Judge To Tears

D.C. Judge Chokes Up While Testifying About His Missing Trousers

[a-ji]

Mr. Pearson is a looser. And what is the crying scenario all about? Give us a break will ya!

[samrensho]

If someone like that can be a judge in America then it is clear how someone like GW can be in the whitehouse. It's looney tunes time in the US.

[jimibear]

"it wouldnt have happened like that in an american owned store thats for *** sure...it would have been resolved in a timely manner but they try to find ways to get out of it and it makes it more frustrating for the consumer til you finally jus go all out as this man has done..bet if was a white man you wouldnt be doin all the name calling"

You are a clueless tool. The people lost his pants (human error. Americans make mistakes too.) They offered to reimburse him the cost of a new pair of pants immediately. He refused. They went up as high as offering him $12,000 because he kept harrassing them. The guy has now sued them for $54 million.

When you run a business, whatever the business is and whoever you are, you occasionally make mistakes. In that situation, you do what these people offered to do straight off the bat: you reimburse your customer the cost of the lost or damaged item. That is what "satisfaction guaranteed" means.

This lowlife piece of human garbage who is suing them is a time-wasting, attention-seeking hunk of sewage. I don't care what color he is - he's an a$$hole.

And it's funny that you go on about how Orientals run their businesses badly and then say "If this was a white guy, you wouldn't be doing all this name-calling". You can't have your racism both ways.

[jimibear]

This guy is a *** loon. And the US legal system that allows a lawsuit like this to be brought it a joke.

We need a system more like the British one, which has two key differences:

1) If a lawsuit is judged to be frivolous, the person bringing it can be fined (quite heavily) for wasting the court's time

and, even more importantly,

2) If someone sues and loses, they have to pay the other party's legal fees.

In this country, people or companies who are sued will often settle, even knowing they would win in court, because it would cost them more to fight the case than to pay off the person bringing the suit. In Britain, this isn't the case. Therefore, the Brits don't get rubbish like this, or the suit a few years ago where a woman won several million dollars because she claimed her doctor's giving her a CAT scan destroyed her psychic powers.

[omega39-2009]

*sniff* reminds me of a pair of socks I used to own, one of them was eaten by the dryer..BWAAHHHHHNHHHHH!

[aerodog]

"Misleading signage"? Ok, them let's all sue the pants (no pun intended)off Wal-Mart. Their employees have to wear those 'how may I help you' shirts and most, not all, employees there are rude and act like they don't want to be bothered with you. So, those shirts are misleading signage. Hey, bet we could get a lot more than $54M from ole Wally.

[wolfchef]

why didn't 'dajudge'roy pearson, use an african-american owned dry cleaner in DC?? Maybe because there aren't any??? Seems like a lot of these establishments are owned and run by hard working asian immigrants who don't want to live in poverty and/or be on the public dole.
Note:Population(2000 census) Washington DC...
Total:572,059
Black or African American: 343,312
Asian: 15,189

[olebd]

I could see this as a TV commercial entitled "The Guy Who Loves His Pants"

I'd understand maybe if they were once worn by somebody famous.

But this guy is either mentally ill or has some other sick motive. Does he really believe he would get $54 million out of some owners of a dry cleaning business? They don't make all that much.

As others have said, this needs to be thrown out as soon as possible and this guy needs to be locked in a padded room for a while. The justice system has got to change.

[gil3al]

This "judge" obviously has serious mental issues, and should be tucked away where he won't be a danger to himself or others.
The other half of this ridiculous coin is the presiding judge. That she would not consider this frivolity in the extreme just focuses the problem of our judges today - silly people in a serious position.
AAAARRRGGGGGGGGGH!

[louklou51]

Are you kidding me?

[jetlizhan]

this guy doing the suing is a pompous @ss! ok, collect the cost of the frigging pants and let it go! this hard-working couple's name and reputation is shot. i feel so sorry for them - THEY MADE A MISTAKE! WHO DOESN'T? fine them or put them on probation - but my heavens, don't take their life away. this guy is a bonafide JERK.

[heyitsme_76]

I bet this jerk sh*it his pants and was originally planning a lawsuit against the makers of the laxative which he took for constipation, before he took his pants to the cleaners. Such a scum bag..

[Geneius]

The guy doing the suing in this outrageous lawsuit is a lawyer. Nuff said.

[grumpas]

This guy must be doing it for the attention he is getting out of it! This is such a waste of the taxpayers money. Someone needs to sue him for hassassment.

[jlyn74]

if this idiot gets ANYTHING from these poor people, or if these people don't get attorney's fees awarded to them to defend this frivolous case, i think i'm gonna have to move to another country. what a TRAVESTY!

[reel-crazy]

It appears that someone has finally found out the definition of Martinizing...

[cathaleen]

This is so stupid. This is just a nuisance suit which the judge should throw out and have that idiot thrown in jail.

[dovestar]

Wasn't there another fellow a few years ago who dropped a pair of pants in Washington?
Seems it happened in an Oval Office but it was a blue dress, not the pants, that were taken to the cleaners.
O, well. That's Washington. First in war, first in peace, and last in common sense.

[ov442]

I dont see any kind of legal basis here. Its not like they harmed him in some way bodily or mentally. If there is mental trauma, it was there before his pants got lost.
If Every business was required by Law to perform perfectly with no mistakes and perfect customer satisfaction, we'd have a whole New world. but thats not the case. In fact if the Government was held to that standard we'd be 100 times more efficient and effective.

The cleaners offered the man reasonable settlements long ago. Im not saying this business wasnt shoddy, but its their right to be shoddy if they want to be. Its up to people to decide not to go to the business that doesnt perform for their money.
But this case hasnt proved anything but that No less than a Judge is wasting american taxpayer money by even bringing this to court.
what a disgrace!

[dovestar]

Let me get this straight. This fellow runs crying from a courtroom over a stupid pair of pants? And he wants 54 million?
And he's judging the merits of cases filed by other people?
Who needs lawyer jokes when we've got real life examples like this?
Problem is, if this guy wins his case, he will have taken his cleaners to the cleaners.
And nobody will be laughing.