Pimp sues Nike for $100m b/c they didn't warn him re dangers of using shoes to stomp on man's face

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 11, 2014 | ZOE SZATHMARY

[Stoat]

A pimp is suing Nike for $100 million -- and says that its Air Jordan shoes failed to include a warning on them that they could be used as dangerous weapons after he used his own pair to beat a man.
Sirgiorgiro Clardy, 26, alleges Nike is partially responsible for Clardy's 100-year prison sentence for beating a man in 2012, The Oregonian reports. Clardy, a Portland-based pimp, was wearing a pair of Jordans when he stomped on the face of a man who was attempting to leave a hotel without paying Clardy's prostitute, the paper adds. 

Clardy was found guilty of second-degree assault by a jury in early 2013. The victim received stitches and plastic surgery, according to The Oregonian.
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[Stoat]

Full title:

"Pimp sues Nike for $100m because they didn't warn him about dangers of using Air Jordans to stomp on man's face"

[Stoat]

“Footwear Liability Issues In The Workplace” ping

[willywill]

the people who should be arrested are the lawyer bringing the case, and the judge who allows it.

[Slings and Arrows]

Shame he's a lifer - he'd be a natural for Holder's Justice Department.

[bubbacluck]

100 years for second degree assault. Glad they didn’t throw the book at him.

[Arthur McGowan]

New definition of chutzpah.

[Bobalu]

This is just nutty!?

Sometimes life seems like a bad Monty Python skit.

[sickoflibs]

Did they post a warning on the box with an illustrative cartoon showing it?
If not they are responsible,

[sickoflibs]

Did they post a warning on the box with an illustrative cartoon showing it?
If not they are responsible,

[Chode]

thank you... the lawyer is a whore and simply whoring for $$$, but the thing in the black robe, well

[Viking2002]

That isn't the half of it. We're talking about a pimp, a ho, and a horndog here. The feddle gummint will ignore all that and just use this as an excuse to tax and regulate our footwear.

[dfwgator]

Remember when pimps wore shoes with an aquarium on the bottom?

[gaijin]

Reminds me of the urban mother outraged an armed Good Samaritan shot her son who was robbing a 7-11, holding everyone at gunpoint:

She was genuinely outraged someone interfered with her son’s robbery.

[RichInOC]

If this doesn’t get bounced in Nike’s backyard, something’s horribly, horribly wrong with their civil court system.

[Nik Naym]

In all likelihood there is no lawyer bringing the case.

The guy is a lifer in jail.By using the prison’s law library he is probably doing it himself since he has nothing else to do with his time.

Some of these guys just sit around all day and think up stupid lawsuits to file, for self entertainment purposes.

[freedomfiter2]

His lawyer should lose his license for filing a suit like this.

[P-Marlowe]

thank you... the lawyer is a whore and simply whoring for $$$...

Clardy, who is representing himself, handwrote his three-page complaint from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, where he is incarcerated.

[P-Marlowe]

His lawyer should lose his license for filing a suit like this.

His lawyer is currently serving a 100 year prison sentence.

See post 17.

[Stoat]

From the article:

'I’ve evaluated serial murders, serial rapists, and I’m going to tell you very few of those people reach the [scores] we’re going to talk about here,' the psychologist, Frank Colistro, reportedly said. 'People like Mr. Clardy are born bad. It’s not something we can fix. That’s why we have prisons.'

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That's also one reason why we have the Second Amendment

 

[gitmo]

I vote “satire”.