The 2007 Idiot of the Year Awards

[Istik]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/ ... r_awa.html

2007 Idiot of the Year: Former Judge Roy L. Pearson of Washington. This former administrative court judge exemplifies everything that the award stands for. Demonstrating worse judgment than a 15-year-old at Mardis Gras, he sued his neighborhood dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants. His streak continued when he turned down settlement offers for as much as $12,000 (the pants were worth $395, according to Pearson's expert witness). Pearson spent two years and squandered his admittedly limited funds building up a case against two hard-working Korean immigrants. Stubbornly persisting against logic, reason and common decency, he pursued his lawsuit to the D.C. Superior Court, where he broke down in tears while describing how much those trousers had meant to him. Despite public ridicule and international disdain, Pearson never yielded, fighting for reasons no one quite understood and in the process losing everything. Congratulations, Mr. Pearson.

[Aurora]

I wonder what special things those pants did.Were they vibrating pants? Special pockets?

[Istik]

They were his special midlife crisis pants.

[Toucan]

of course wehn i read pants i read it as what you'd call underpants

and if that was the way, then maybe they were his lucky pants

lucky pants are usually the most scabby worn pair you have, that you always pull in

as your guarenteed to get a bird up the road when you got old, tacky pants on