Man sues Bank of America for 1,784 billion, trillion dollars
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Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
“Incomprehensible,” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released in Manhattan federal court.
“He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a ‘Spanish womn,’” the judge wrote. “He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers…”
The sum…dwarfs the world’s 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank…
Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed.
I know people like this. Do you know someone like this?
To answer the question, one must wonder how many people in the world there are as infinitely into friviality? Then one must calculate the odds.
If the number is high, it must cost the court systems (taxpayers) a literal fortune just to deal with such junk jive.
Thank goodness Judge Chin is presiding over this…
E Trams
September 26, 2009 at 5:02 am
If I was on the jury, I’d award him every single cent he claimed and my only regret would be, because this is a trans-national corporation, I couldn’t force the CEO and senior executives and their spouses to hand over their bloated salaries and bank accounts, portfolios, cars, houses, yachts and various vacation properties.
They go broke trying to pay – so what? The politicians will just bail them out. They’re too big to fail. The politicians have already told me that little lie a few too many times. I’m starting to believe it.
Why not pay this guy for his complaints? It makes as much sense as anything else in the current U.S. fiscal system.
Maybe this should be a class action suit on behalf of all the customers and the U.S. taxpayer?
Cinaedh
September 26, 2009 at 8:11 am
Sounds reasonable. Let’s all sue each other and win… wouldn’t that make our GDP skyrocket?
Jägermeister
September 26, 2009 at 8:40 am
Maybe Chisholm is going for a reality t.v. show in which he sues everything in his path (or around his path) regardless of merit It’s obvious he wants money but perhaps fame is another virtue he desires, “virtue” sarcastically LOL! And since it doesn’t seem to be against the law to tie up the courts, other people’s time, other people’s reputation, other people’s well being, and other people’s job security – well let him have at it! This way the whole nation can witness the absurdity and stand in line to become victims of it!
Again, thank goodness this Judge is presiding…
E Trams
September 27, 2009 at 5:39 am