Did you hear the one about...

I mentioned this last week, but I had to delete it as the coding was messing up and I had no time to redo the post. It's been one of those weeks.
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So, did you hear the one about the judge suing the drycleaners for $67 million?

Roy Pearson, an administrative judge in the District of Columbia, claims that Custom Cleaners lost a pair of trousers after he took them in to be let out in the waist.

So now he is suing for a blockbuster film's opening weekend worth of dinero, after rejecting three attempts by the Chungs to settle for trifling 4-5 digit figures.

Because of his trousers being lost, he had to look like a schmuck his first day of work as a new Very Important Judge. He earned that position after spending decades as a lawyer providing free legal services to impoverished District residents.

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The Chungs, who own and operate Custom Cleaners, are Korean immigrants who live in Virginia. So he doesn't care about impoverishing them with outrageous court costs, of course.

 He won't give Custom Cleaners his business any longer, so he has to rent a car to get to a dry cleaner every weekend. Apparently the Right to Someone Else Doing Your Laundry is in the Constitution, or something.

Hey, Judge Pearson: maybe walking that overburdensome mile to the next closest cleaner every weekend would mean your trousers wouldn't need to be taken in at all.

ABC News calculated that for $67 million,  you could buy 4,115 new pairs of pants at the $800 he claimed they were worth.

The Chungs have received so much public support that their law firm started a legal defense fund.

Incidentally, the District of Columbia's budget and laws are determined by the US Congress, in which DC does not having voting representation. In other words, if you're an American, you help pay this judge's salary. I wonder how much of his time he spends on this case while he is at work?