Finger Food
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Remember when everybody was freaking out because apparently a woman in San Jose, California, had found a finger in her chilly from Wendy’s? Anna Ayala sued the company in what would have been a very lucrative move her her, if she hadn’t staged the whole thing herself. After some CSI investigation revealed that the finger didn’t come from the food chain, Ayala and her husband admitted to conspiracy and she and her husband got nine years and twelve years in prison, respectively.
The worst part? Ayala’s husband had bought the finger for $100 after a co-worker lost it in an on-the-job accident, promising him cut of the profits to shut up about it.
I’m Gonna Sue Your Pants Off! (Literally)
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Roy L. Pearson was a Washington DC judge with a weird agenda – he had it out for his dry cleaners. After he never got back a pair of pants that was misplaced at the service, he sued the local dry cleaning business claiming that he never got the “Same day service” or “guaranteed satisfaction” that they advertised. He filed a whopping $67 million lawsuit against them. In the end, the judge (not pearson) ruled in favor of the Chungs, who owned the dry cleaners, but everybody ended up losing. The Chungs had to close two of their 3 branches to afford legal fees, and Pearson was put on probation from his job as a judge after proving that he was kind of crazy and insane. Serves him right!
Calm Down, Jack***
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IN 1997, a man named Robert Craft legally changed his name to “Jack Ass,” somehow spinning it as a movement to support awareness of drunk driving. When MTV came out with their series of the same name a few years later, the man formerly known as Craft sued Viacom for $10 million in damages for plagiarism and defamation. In classic Johnny Knoxville fashion, the fearless star of the show simply responded “I can’t wait to get served the papers. What could be more American than just suing the living s___ out of someone for no reason at all?”