SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With SCO in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and there being little to read other than status reports and the boring financial details of how the company is wasting its last few dollars, one could be excused for thinking the SCO lawsuits had lost their zip. But things just got a bit more interesting. Jonathan Lee Riches has asked the court to take over. Yes, the man also known as inmate #40948-018 is now bringing his legal experience to the table, having previously filed pro se lawsuits against such entities as Michael Vick, Michael Jordan, Mickey Mantle, the Lincoln Memorial, the Thirteen Tribes of Israel, 'Various Buddhist Monks,' Mein Kampf, Denny's, George W. Bush, the Soviet Gulag Archipelago, Bellevue Hospital, Iran's Evin Prison, Auschwitz, and Plato. In his hand-written pro se motion (PDF), he asks to intervene as Plaintiff pursuant to FRCP 24(a)(2). As best anyone can read the motion, it appears that he offered Novell some 'royalty payments' and they refused them, so he wants to protect his UnixWare rights. He also claims to have proof of SCO's claims, but he wants take over part of the case via FRCP 24 because SCO isn't competent, and allegedly he could do a better job. To be fair, between him and Darl, it's something of a toss-up."

Comments

To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[antifoidulus]

Denny's or George W. Bush?

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[Anonymous Coward]

I've wanted to (in both cases), even as a Canadian.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[elrous0]

Screw that. I want some of the fat Plato cash!

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll be disappointed. Plato always exaggerated his numbers ten-fold. And most of what remained was stolen by Aristotle to build his philosopher's harem.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[snowgirl]

Pfff I want to sue "Mein Kampf", I mean, how many times do you get to sue an inanimate object? (To be fair, the Lincoln Memorial probably has a staff..)

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[Rei]

He's also sued the Magna Carta. ;) I actually read about him when he triggered one of my Google News Alerts by suing Steve Fambro, founder of Aptera Motors, for not giving him a long-sleeved shirt to stay warm with. Aptera is the company that's making the two hyper-efficient spaceship-like three wheelers: the $27k, 120-mile range Aptera Typ-1e electric car and the $30k Aptera Typ-1h plug-in hybrid.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[damista]

GWB, I can understand but excuse my ignorance: Who or what the heck is Denny's???

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a very low quality 24-hour diner common in the USA and elsewhere. Wikipedia

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[poetmatt]

very low quality is a complement. I'm amazed people haven't died from eating that food.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[deraj123]

Compared to most of the 24 hour diner's I've eaten at, Denny's is pretty decent fare...It's usually my choice for a "good" meal at 4am.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[jgarra23]

I LOVE the Super Bird. Always have. Though I am pretty P.O.'D about the slight and gradual change in size (smaller) over the years, they are obviously trying to cut costs..

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[snowgirl]

Wow, turns out some one tried to sue themselves for getting arrested. >_

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[poetmatt]

Denny's is edible, the same as IHOP (international house of prostitution - aka watch out for the cottage cheese discharges)

There's something in chicago that's open 24 hours thats somewhat of an Ed Debevics equivalent, that is obviously more expensive (city tax) but legitimately a worthy eat...wish I remembered the name.

Of course, any restaurant thats open after midnight the first response is that "your mileage may vary" as every place at that point is likely some form of a risk to eat at.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[snowgirl]

"Close the door! What, were you born in a barn?" -- Police chief, "Jesus Christ Supercop"

I just read your sig... that's wow... hilarious, true, and no doubt going to offend someone...

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[snowgirl]

* WARNING: Consuming raw, undercooked food, or food from Denny's may increase your risk of food-borne illness.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[elrous0]

...probably was raised in a barn...with all the other primitives.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[sm62704]

Your sig hurt my head. Now I need an aspirin.

NKB checked for this OT post

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[sm62704]

My daughter worked at Denny's at one time, and even I wouldn't eat there. Their food tastes like your sig's argument against intelligent design.

Re:To be fair, who among you HASNT wanted to sue

[shentino]

Sadly, it happens in the US.

Only we call it "civil forfeiture".

Google for "United States v. $124,000" or something.

Hmm..

[The Ancients]

To be fair, between him and Darl, it's something of a toss-up."

"Toss up"? You got that right.

Re:Hmm..

[ettlz]

Oh, I can think of at least 50 better things to toss over.

Re:Hmm..

[bryce4president]

Toss up? In Jonathan Lee Riches situation, more like a tossed salad.

Translation of PDF

[Gewalt]

It reads: "It's cold in here, and I'm lonely."

Re:Translation of PDF

[spun]

My favorite JLR quote:

"Philip Woolston and Apple Computers sexually assaulted me in my dreams and not in real life, I can't sue a dream."
 

Re:Translation of PDF

[Otter]

Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"

Re:Translation of PDF

[cyphercell]

are you sure? Maybe the mentally ill person is wondering why sco gets away with it and he doesn't? Honestly, if we were to admit he were mentally ill he wouldn't belong in prison, if he's not ill then surely he jests.

Re:Translation of PDF

[AndGodSed]

"...and I hear stuff..."

Re:Translation of PDF

[_KiTA_]

Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"

If I was stuck in jail for 10 years, I'd be doing the same thing -- sucking as MUCH money out of the system as possible, just for something to do. Plus they might let him out to shut him up.

Re:Translation of PDF

[DrJimbo]

"... I see dead companies ..."

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[jd]

The odds are near-certain that he is ill to some degree, and fairly high that he's ill enough to have had some sort of split with reality. Clearly not completely, if he's wanting to sue Denny's, but nonetheless significant. I've always thought that it would make more sense to split prison sentences into a penal phase actually in a prison, and a mental phase where the person is in a suitable facility that has comparable security and restrictions (ie: not a "soft option") but is primarily concerned with treating mental conditions.

The primary idea would be that you would then dispense entirely with the insanity plea, regard ALL who are convicted as needing some mental health care, and split the time accordingly. This means that all who actually do need treatment get it, and those who don't get a thorough health check, so nobody would lose. This would also eliminate the usual problem of the prosecution and the defense hiring mental health "experts" that look for what they want to see, and the whole problem of 'criminal insanity'. Such a concept would have no meaning, if all insanity gets treated and no insanity is punished. You'd have to be extremely careful to keep it to genuine help rather than control, but I don't see that as an impossibility.

The secondary aspect is that if some people get the mental health checks first, you might reduce prison violence and prison ganglands. If these attitudes can be attacked effectively, it has to be outside an environment they think they can rule. There is something macho to those guys about being in prison, it's even a medal of honor to some. I don't think they'd get quite that machismo kick out of being in a padded room with doctors who are going to utterly ignore their ravings.

Of course, this means you would need to build highly secure mental homes capable of handling three or four million people, have sufficient medical facilities in each to test and treat as necessary, and sufficient experts in the field to actually handle the volume of work. I'm not sure what 9.4T MRI scanners cost these days, but you really need to get to that resolution to diagnose anything other than the most coarse-grained of stuff. Nor do I know how much the highest resolution CAT, PET, fMRI and EEG systems cost. However, I don't imagine the full works for every major population center would cost more than a few tens of trillions of dollars in total. A hundred trillion at the outside. Not sure the return would come close to that, which is a pain, but it might finally kill the Wild West attitude towards justice that is found in so many countries, and that would be a Good Thing at almost any price.

The biggest drawback to this speculation is that quite possibly I'm the only one on the planet who thinks along these lines.

Re:Translation of PDF

[Gilmoure]

What was that about Denny's again?

Re:Translation of PDF

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, the guy just has too much time on his hands.

At least he has a hobby to keep him off the streets.

Re:Translation of PDF

[Manchot]

I don't think that he's mentally ill. He files these lawsuits in different federal districts in order to avoid frivolity penalties. In other words, he recognizes that the suits are completely ridiculous. I bet that he's doing it because he's bored.

Re:Translation of PDF

[gad_zuki!]

Right, because no mentally ill people have ever gone to prison!

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[inode_buddha]

Let's talk.

Re:Translation of PDF

[Faylone]

Yeah, that 'prison' thing does a good job of that, too.

Re:Translation of PDF

[fermion]

Timmy!

Re:Translation of PDF

[idiot900]

I'm not sure what 9.4T MRI scanners cost these days, but you really need to get to that resolution to diagnose anything other than the most coarse-grained of stuff.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't use magnets that strong on humans. The most powerful clinical MRI I've seen is 3T. (Granted I haven't paid attention in a few years, but still, 9.4T is quite a lot.)

Re:Translation of PDF

[johkir]

Or, "Let's laugh WITH that (mentally ill) person!"

Re:Translation of PDF

[jd]

Admittedly, it IS in Chicago, so I cannot vouch for the humans getting back out again, but if worked as described by the researchers involved, the system is capable of resolving down to individual neural connections.

Re:Translation of PDF

[Repossessed]

There's a slight problem with this idea, in that involuntary mental health institutions have a habit of completely ignoring what is typically considered ethical treatment of prisoners. Everything from keeping a person perpetually restrained (A major violation of international law) to simple stuff like denying a prisoner access to reading materials and visitation rights.

There are certainly reasons to do all this, in extreme cases, but I wouldn't subject anyone to the nutjobs that run the madhouses if it was at all avoidable.

Re:Translation of PDF

[KGIII]

If you want the long story I'll share it with you but I'll give you the short of it. The justice department is not, and has never been, about rehabilitation. It is retribution. It is not about resolving, it is about warehousing inmates at the lowest possible cost.

Re:Translation of PDF

[jd]

You are absolutely correct, which means that if such a system were to ever be implemented - at least, ethically - it would need to be thoroughly monitored and outright prohibited from imposing restrictions that could not be imposed in prison under identical circumstances, and limited further from imposing constraints that were mentally damaging, with limited exceptions for when that really is the only option. You'd also need staff who regarded their work in the same light as the truly dedicated and most ethical of doctors, with the view of doing least harm (Hippocratic Oath) and greatest good. Finding one in the psych field that would be able to do that under these sorts of conditions would be hard going, finding a thousand or so per State would be an interesting challenge.

Of course, this creates an interesting question. Clearly, I'm needing to add more and more constraints on the system to ensure that it meets even the same lousy standards as the existing one. By the time there are enough constraints to ensure that it would be a solution that could be used in good conscience and would actually be beneficial to the prisoners as individuals and to society as a whole, with absolutely no risk of Clockwork Orange-style abuses, will the constraints contradict each other? In other words, is this solution real or an illusion, something where each piece technically works but the combined product never can?

Re:Translation of PDF

[jd]

I think you are correct, and I think that that is part of why the reoffense rate is high, but also why over 1% of the population is now in prison. My suggestion may be a dead-end, but the current system is undead and terminal. Holy water and garlic may also be helpful.

Re:Translation of PDF

[KGIII]

My thoughts? Stop sending them into a prison and start putting them either nowhere, a facility that keeps them all separate, or into a facility that actually helps them. In order: Some crimes don't need to remove the perpetrator from society - see possession of drug charges or the likes. Separated means that they are less likely to continue with criminal conduct and able to control the outside - should be only the rarest of cases where, say, capital punishment is in order. If there is going to be a "release date" then let there be one and let that time being incarcerated be used to actually benefit society by assisting the convicted in learning valuable skills such as, I don't know, how to interact with humanity and do so respectfully. It is my pipe dream so I'll expect that when copyright is realistic, patents are not for processes, and people know they have a choice.

Re:Translation of PDF

[jd]

Realistic or not, I like your thoughts and ideas a lot. We live in a world where destructive thinking is more popular than constructive, but I urge that you don't let that stop you thinking about the ways society can be better. At worst, it is a great outlet for what bubbles through the innermost parts of your mind. At best - well, once every hardly ever, a really good idea gets heard by someone who decides to make it happen, or at least borrows the key ideas. It's too rare to be motivated by it, but it's often enough to make it important that good thinkers don't stop saying what they think.

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[Tom]

If I was stuck in jail for 10 years, I'd be doing the same thing -- sucking as MUCH money out of the system as possible, just for something to do. Plus they might let him out to shut him up.

Either that, or he's good a weird sense of humour. I could imagine that he actually enjoys the stuff, and has fun doing it.

Re:Translation of PDF

[bryce4president]

Proof please. And something that has happened in the last 15 to 20 years preferably. And more than one incident because you are making this out to be a routine situation.

My wife happens to work in a mental health unit inside a woman's prison, and her mother in a state hospital for the mentally ill. Neither of which comes remotely close to your perception. At least not in Pennsylvania.

I, for one, actually think that time with a counselor for ALL convicted criminals (more than a misdemeanor)should be mandatory, along with some group therapy as well. This would bring a need for increased staff, but I think that people coming out of the jails would be more well adjusted. I think that id (gpp) maybe onto something.

Re:Translation of PDF

[Anonymous Coward]

For this to work, you'd need to change science from that which is "observed and repeatable" to that which "follows my notion of competent."

This is not much different from considering a eugenics program to cull the inferior peoples or races.

A problem is that it is difficult to determine where brain function would result in criminal behavior, and that socio-economic factors are much better at determining the probability of criminal behavior. Treating poor people with quality education and economic opportunity seems to be a much more efficient way to reduce crime rates.

A less pressing issue is that there is no machine capable of diagnosing conditions--not even the MRI. It seems you've failed to realize that the technology behind the Minority Report ("treating" people who will commit crimes--very similar to your proposal) does not yet exist, that it is currently not possible to predict for individuals with diagnosed conditions what they will do, that aggressive and not mentally ill people commit crimes, too, and that programs like this--programs existing before the technology to diagnose and predict behavior--have been tried about a century ago.

The major flaw of the program is that the lack of technology makes it easy for arbitrary decisions to be made about a person's freedom.

Perhaps if you do implement this, you could find the technology to make behavior prediction feasible, the funding to create treatment facilities to hold as many people as the prisons hold, the funding to essentially invert the doctor:guard ratio of present systems, and a species capable of avoiding the human tendency towards abusive relationships in such situations (Zimbardo Prison Experiment).

Instead of a system like this, why not simply support better education and economic opportunity for the poor, and a universal health care system that would make it easier for everyone to receive treatment for mental illness (which is the core of your program, anyway). Imagine this as the non-liberty abusive way to implement your plan. Do such programs currently work? Well, if they had the funding you would need for your program, perhaps they would.

The troll-like aspect of your post is in the cost of the program. The world GDP is ~ 50 trillion, so meeting your estimates requires everyone on the planet to essentially work for free for 3-4 years (why not just have those producing the buildings, equipment, and extracting raw materials work for free, or $1/hr?) to fund the program.

A great society would have easy health care and quality education and jobs for all (which would reatly reduce crime rates), but we would still need prisons--even if only because crimes changed from violent or petty to white-collar crimes.

Small points are that few prisoners hold prison as a badge (because it makes life outside--apartment and job-seeking--difficult) and that a mental insanity plea is very rarely accepted (and rarely, though often reported--like shark bites are reported--happen). Besides, the consequence of an insanity plea (which is supported by psychiatric evaluation by experts who would be, presumably, just as competent as the experts diagnosing people in your program--and inhibited by the same technological limitations) is usually treatment in a state facility (which sounds similar to the place your program places people). The difference between this and your program is primarily that there are treatment facilities for those who are screened but not guilty.

Re:Translation of PDF

[maroonhat]

...with the view of doing least harm (Hippocratic Oath) and...

..._no_ harm, first do no harm.

least is at least a little subjective...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

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[LrdDimwit]

It's not unheard of for inmates to do this kind of thing -- repeatedly file frivolous lawsuits. See, prisoners are indigent, so they get to sue basically for free, but they can *see* the havoc they cause on everyone else who has to deal with their mess. What do they care, they're in jail for the rest of their life anyway. What have they got to lose?

Giving them access to the courts is done on purpose, to prevent excesses in the prison system. (Not that this is particularly effective, but that's the theory -- imagine if no prisoner could ever sue the prison system because he couldn't sue while incarcerated. Scary stuff.) Unfortunately, some of them found out that they can do the equivalent of griefing/trolling and there are no real repercussions. They have nothing to lose (or near enough) and they can cause people some pain and get back at the system. So some do.

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[sm62704]

The thing is, I would guess that most people in prison have some sort of mental illness or other. Especially the non-violent drug criminals, who are likely taking the drugs in the first place because they're "self-medicating".

I would bet that if we were to institute universal health care like the civilized world does and include mental health care we would no longer incarcerate more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world as we do now.

If I hadn't had insurance that covered "adjustment disoprder with depressed mood" (a temporary condition that often occurs after major life changes) after my wife of twenty seven years left my two daughters and me for another man, I might well have done something stupid anough to send me to prison.

SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who is this guy?

The Master of the Obvious?

Shawshank

[bugs2squash]

All because Andy Dufresne just had to build that damn law library...

Oh wait - I'm failing to separate fact from fiction...

Oh wait...

Re:Shawshank

[elrous0]

At least they're learning valuable trades that they can use when they escape.

Cellmates

[rjshirts]

I guess he and Darl can cook up theories in prison together about how IBM is secretly owning the world, and how they put a secret chemical into every keyboard to make you addicted to the internet.
I mean, it's the next logical step in this case, isn't it?

Re:Cellmates

[morgan_greywolf]

Prison? Nay. I don't think prison is a good place for either one of them. I'm thinking of a place with a bit more padding on the walls...

Re:Cellmates

[Elektroschock]

But IBM is evil. Look what they did to Microsoft Open XML. Or how they gave punchcards to the Nazis...

Re:Cellmates

[verbamour]

I didn't know porn was a chemical...

Re:Cellmates

[ProfessionalCookie]

Or cement & spikes.

Re:Cellmates

[ProfessionalCookie]

For Daryl mind you. This guy is worth keeping around just for the humor. I really hope he's actually semisane.

Re:Cellmates

[rpmayhem]

I knew there was a better reason why the IBM model M keyboards are so beloved.

Re:Cellmates

[Anonymous Coward]

Nazis aren't evil, incompetent people are evil.

Re:Cellmates

[Monsuco]

I mean, it's the next logical step in this case, isn't it?

No, next he will probably say something crazy like Groklaw's PJ being a hoax and not really existing, oh wait...

Re:Cellmates

[Foobar of Borg]

how they put a secret chemical into every keyboard to make you addicted to the internet

Darl: Mandrake, do you realize that flouridation of keyboards is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Linux plot that we have yet to face? ... I cannot sit back and allow Linux infiltration, Linux indoctrination, Linux subversion, and the international Linux conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Re:Cellmates

[LrdDimwit]

As if you would need anything so nefarious as a secret chemical. Why you think the net was born? Porn Porn Porn!

That's fun...

[Chysn]

...ya just can't buy.

Fat chance.

[WK2]

Compared to SCO, this guy's lawsuit actually has a chance of succeeding.

Re:Fat chance.

[XnPlater]

Yes, if you listen carefully, you can already hear the accordion of triumph in the distance!

Re:Fat chance.

[XnPlater]

Damn, a '3' is missing at the end of the link :(

don't forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

to pay your $299 (or was it $499) "get out of jail" fee, you ...

Re:don't forget...

[assassinator42]

It's $50. What are you talking about?

Toss up?

[segedunum]

Sound like a couple of tossers to me.

Re:Toss up?

[tomhudson]

Sound like a couple of tossers to me.

So which one's going to be getting their salad tossed, and which one's the eater? Or is it going to be a mutual thing?

Re:Toss up?

[Anonymous Coward]

You know what they do in jail? Toss the salad. -- Jay (of Jay & Silent Bob fame).

All we need now is Carl Icahn and Jack Thompson

[Anonymous Coward]

to get invovled, and we'd really have a waste of tax payers' money.

Re:Wait

[Anonymous Coward]

The monster!

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[morgan_greywolf]

Not quite. He sued Take-Two, Rockstar Games and the game Grand Theft Auto itself(?!) for putting him in prison. GTA made him commit identity theft, apparently. He also sued a bunch of other people, as The Fine Summary points out.

Just proving once again that anyone can sue anyone for anything. Needless to say, numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'.

This makes me wanna say...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hey, knock it off Jonathan Lee Riches... you're actually making Darl McBride look sane by comparison!" And believe me... that's a feat which is not easily accomplished!

Re:This makes me wanna say...

[SanityInAnarchy]

Oh, it's much worse. He makes Jack Thompson look sane.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Kugrian]

This guy is an amazing loon. Seriously, he makes Jack Thompson look sane.

From Washington Post (as linked in above summary):

On July 16, for instance, he filed a complaint alleging that the
Mossad, the CIA and "Larry King Live" conspired to "hijack my torso, three toes,
and my constitutional rights and ship them to a secret headquarters in Concord,
NH," as well as inserted microchips and "dashing my hopes." He accuses Larry
King of being "a voodoo witch doctor who stole my identity on February 25th,
2003 and purchased lead paint, Chips Ahoy!, Planter's Peanuts, and Ziploc bags
under my identity. Distributed them to the CIA to microwave test my
DNA."

Can't find words..

Insane, but knowlegable

[gubers33]

Granted the guy has totally went insane in prison, but in terms of his knowledge of the law he is probably more knowledgeable than SCO. If you read some of his other suits, the legal references are legit, but his plaintiffs and reasons for suing are completely off the deep end.

Re:Insane, but knowlegable

[Galactic Dominator]

Granted the guy has totally went insane in prison

He's insane like Monty Python is insane. Totally insane is when you have to wear depends and take Thorazine shots daily. You shouldn't call things bricked that are salvageable. Boredom will make you do strange things.

Re:Insane, but knowlegable

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

MMMMMMmmmmmmm, I miss my daily Thorazine shots.

Who pays the court costs?

[HolyCrapSCOsux]

The taxpayers, that's who!
He should get the chair.

Crazier!

[geogob]

SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier

Well, now I, without a doubt, believe anything is possible. Perhaps even the most pessimistic being/thing in the universe would believe anything is possible after reading this line.

New name

[bondjamesbond]

I would officially like to name SCO the "Zombie Company" because, even though it's dead, it
just
won't
DIE

Plato's reponse

[mattjb0010]

In response, Plato said: "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[snowgirl]

Just proving once again that anyone can sue anyone for anything. Needless to say, numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'.

This guy apparently has proven that you can sue anything for anything... I mean, "Mein Kampf"?

Flame Story

[Anonymous Coward]

I know SCO is evil and all that, but this "story" is nothing more than a flame. Get it out of here.

IANAMP

[stomv]

I am not a medical professional, but it sure seems that Jonathan Lee Riches is acting in ways that may be medically insane. The US Justice system doesn't exactly have a good track record when dealing with mental illness.

If he is ill, I hope he gets treatment.

Re:IANAMP

[Anonymous Coward]

I am not a medical professional, but it sure seems that Jonathan Lee Riches is acting in ways that may be medically insane.

Maybe it's his hobby.

Re:IANAMP

[Dan93]

I doubt he's insane. The lawsuits are funny ludicrous. Not crazy ludicrous. He sued a bridge for christsakes! Some of the money is of the amount that no government in the world has, and one would have to be stupid to believe they could actually get it.

Re:IANAMP

[bradkittenbrink]

Insanity is not a medical criterion, it's a moral and legal one. The key is being capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong. Right and wrong are concepts fundamentally outside the mandate of medical science.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity#In_medicine

If he's mentally ill then he certainly needs treatment. But that's actually an independent question from whether or not he's a moral agent who deserves to be held responsible for his actions (although one will often inform the other).

I agree with you though that most US penal facilities do not have a good track record with such things though.

Re:IANAMP

[Delchanat]

A pile of shit has a tendency to attract flies.

Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Jason Levine]

Riches's imagination in making accusations is matched by his audacity in asking for damages. In the July 16 suit he demanded "211,429,399,000,000.00 trillion dollars backed by gold and silver, delivered by United States Postal Service."

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.

On July 16, for instance, he filed a complaint alleging that the Mossad, the CIA and "Larry King Live" conspired to "hijack my torso, three toes, and my constitutional rights and ship them to a secret headquarters in Concord, NH," as well as inserted microchips and "dashing my hopes." He accuses Larry King of being "a voodoo witch doctor who stole my identity on February 25th, 2003 and purchased lead paint, Chips Ahoy!, Planter's Peanuts, and Ziploc bags under my identity. Distributed them to the CIA to microwave test my DNA."

The guy's either a certified loon or someone trying to pass himself off as one. And these two small quotes are just two drops in the loony bucket. I hate to say it, but even Darl McBride's most fantastic quotes were closer to reality that this guy's quotes. Even though Darl didn't have anywhere near the evidence to back his claims, they were within the general realm of possibility. Larry King stealing this guy's identity to buy ziploc bags and passing them on to the CIA to "microwave test" his DNA? That makes Iraq's old Information Minister look like he was telling the complete truth.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[tomhudson]

Riches's imagination in making accusations is matched by his audacity in asking for damages. In the July 16 suit he demanded "211,429,399,000,000.00 trillion dollars backed by gold and silver, delivered by United States Postal Service."

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.

And how is that crazier than the RIAA wanting $150,000.00 for each song "illegally shared" to compensate them for their "losses" - which also, using their figures for "song piracy", also works out to more than all the money in the world?

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[bluefoxlucid]

The guy's either a certified loon or someone trying to pass himself off as one.

Honestly? His claims sound a lot like the religious tomes of Scientology.

Maybe he's bored, or waiting for the mother ship?

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Chris Burke]

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.

Geeze, why not just go all the way and ask for "infinity U.S. dollars, in non-sequential bills"

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[srmalloy]

I just hope he and Teri Smith Tyler are never allowed together; the resultant concretion of raving lunacy might go supernova and destroy the Earth.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Anonymous Coward]

For the benefit of anyone who may have forgotten, Saddam's Information Minister ended up having to deny the presence of American tanks in Baghdad, to reporters who could turn their heads about 50 degrees and see the American tanks.

I think db32 has nailed it, he's aiming for a padded cell 'cause it would be safer. Of course, ever getting out is another issue.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[jeffasselin]

An infinite number of non-sequential bills? Doesn't that contradict the continuum hypothesis or something? :-)

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Chris Burke]

Well, I added it to try to add an extra level of crazy on top of asking for infinity dollars so I hadn't really thought of it. But I guess if you could do infinity dollars, that would actually be possible. 1... 3... 5... repeating to infinity would count for the sense of "non-sequential" I meant, and is still an infinite set.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[ChrisA90278]

"Larry King stealing this guy's identity to buy ziploc bags and passing them on to the CIA to "microwave test" his DNA? "

Maybe he's not so wacky.

I read this as a kind of political performance art. He is making a statement that sails "Here is just one more law suit not un-like the millions you've seen before." And you know what? He's right. No so different really.

Kind of like the guy barfs on a canvas and says it's "art". He is making a statement about how stupid and gullible some art critics and buyers are. Like "If you buy that I've got one just like it here."

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Anonymous Coward]

Riches's imagination in making accusations is matched by his audacity in asking for damages. In the July 16 suit he demanded "211,429,399,000,000.00 trillion dollars backed by gold and silver, delivered by United States Postal Service."

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars.

In the man's defense, I think he was asking for 211 trillion, 429 billion, 399 million dollars and 0 cents, but just was too... um... insufficiently learned to write that correctly.

CAPTCHA is foggier? You'd swear the algorithms analyzed the source of your message...

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Jason Levine]

Actually, I think another poster hit the nail on the head. The guy's in a federal prison for 10 years. This whole campaign is to make him appear mentally ill so he can be transferred to a nice hospital where they will treat his "ailment" instead of him having to do hard time.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Jason Levine]

According to http://p2pnet.net/story/11575 , there are about one billion songs shared per day on P2P networks. If the RIAA demanded $150,000 for each song shared, that would come to $150 trillion per day, or $54,750 trillion dollars. This is just under the world's GDP and is much less than this guy's demands. Plus, the RIAA isn't demanding that entire figure from a single person/entity. So while the RIAA is still quite far from reality, they are still closer to it than this guy. I'm officially impressed, actually, it's not easy to beat SCO, the Iraqi Information Minister, and the RIAA in nutty claims. But this guy does it easily. Now he needs to get to work suing Wikipedia and the entire Internet for stealing his soul, posting it on Wikipedia.com and allowing people to edit it. ;-)

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Jason Levine]

I was actually wondering if he was holding his pinky to his mouth, Dr. Evil style, while writing out his demands.

"I want two hundred SEPT-ILLION dollars!"

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[nickrout]

In New Zealand we have a procedure to have vexatious litigants declared as such, with the result that they may not issue proceedings (sue people) without leave of the High Court. Of course they still make applications for leave, but it does slow them down. Mind you we have a single national system of courts, and no state/federal structure, so its easier to have a system where this happens. I imagine in the US you probably have a constitutional right to bring vexatious suits.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[bradkittenbrink]

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.

What? don't try to pretend like you don't...

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Chrisq]

That makes Iraq's old Information Minister look like he was telling the complete truth.

You saying he wasn't. In today's politically correct world that makes you a racist.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[the_other_chewey]

Riches's imagination in making accusations is matched by his audacity in asking for damages. In the July 16 suit he demanded "211,429,399,000,000.00 trillion dollars backed by gold and silver, delivered by United States Postal Service."

That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.

Looking at it by another angle: At roughly 1,000USD per troy ounce of gold (Or 31,000 USD per kg), this makes (dropping lots of decimal places, just a rough estimate) around a tenth of our moon's mass. Or about 5*10^13 times all gold ever mined on Earth.

Considering the density of gold, this would result in a sphere with a diameter of about 870km. Cool. (That's no moon, that's your opponent's payment...)

I leave figuring out the postage for the delivery as an exercise to the reader ;-)

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[Jason Levine]

Actually, there seems to be a law (if one of the linked to articles is correct) that would enable the courts to ban him from filing lawsuits (or at least require approval before filing) due to past frivolous lawsuits. The problem is that this guy is getting around the law by filing in different courts each time. He's exploiting a loophole to keep his ridiculous string of lawsuits going. This makes me think that he's a sane individual trying to act insane so that he'll get moved from federal prison to a cushy-by-comparison mental health ward.

Re:Goodness Gracious, Great Gobs of Dough!

[toby]

Larry King stealing this guy's identity to buy ziploc bags and passing them on to the CIA to "microwave test" his DNA

Yep, that's in the ballpark of White House Press Secretary, alright.

It's insane, but with a system

[Opportunist]

He's shooting in hopes of hitting. It's insane claims, but he has faith in the justice system that he will eventually hit a judge that matches his insanity and rules in his favor.

What? You don't think loonie judges exist? You have seen the copyright lawsuits and still question their existance?

Re:It's insane, but with a system

[db32]

I suspect you are right for the wrong reason. Serving 10 years in prison is what he is facing, for identity theft. Getting declared legally insane and shipped off for treatment I suspect would be a really nice way to get out of prison rape and the other joys of being incarcerated. I could be wrong, I don't know much about the guy, but somehow I suspect with his identity theft crimes and knowledge of law that he probably isn't a toughguy thug apt to make it through 10 years of prison without his asshole being stretched considerably.

Re:It's insane, but with a system

[KGIII]

*sighs* I can't/won't respond to you all with that thought process. The time it took to create the suits and submit them is quite a bit. He's due to be released in 2012 meaning he's been in jail for a long time now (10.5 years is his total bid.) At this point I can reasonably guess that he's not doing it in an attempt to get to a different facility. There are far easier ways to accomplish that including just asking and saying you are in fear of your life and then screaming madly about the ants trying to eat your soul.

I can't figure out

[virgil_disgr4ce]

...why the link to "pro se" is a particular revision instead of the current article?

Re:I can't figure out

[Anonymous Coward]

So that Slashdot doesn't end up linking to Goatse after some dick vandalizes the page. And what does this have to do with sueing Denny's and/or George Bush? Top-posting scum...

Theatre

[krgallagher]

The hand written motion is a nice touch, but it would have been better written on toilet paper.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[AndGodSed]

How About: "Oy."

Magna Carta?!?

[Maestro485]

If only he'd sued the Magna Carta for suspending of habeas corpus :(

if the glove don't fit...

[Anonymous Coward]

If the glove don't fit, they must acquit...

Maybe they can try the Chewbacca defense.

Re:To the submitter of this article

[Arthur Grumbine]

Jonathan?! They let you have internet access in there?!

Jack Thompson connection??

[Anonymous Coward]

The wikipedia page on Jonathan Lee Riches has this:

"On April 9, 2008, Riches filed a request for a temporary restraining order in a US District Court against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two, developer Rockstar Games, FCI Williamsburg, and Grand Theft Auto itself, claiming that the defendants "put me in prison." The inmate stated, "Defendants contributed to Plaintiff committing identity theft. Defendant's games show sex, drugs and violence which offends me."" ... and so on.

So, has this guy actually been talking to Jack Thompson, or do great minds think alike?

UnixWare rights?

[Orion Blastar]

Even admitting to using or owning Unixware is like admitting to using or owning Windows ME. :)

But anyway UnixWare used source code from open source products the same ones used in Linux. So trying to claim that Linux stole SCO Unix code by comparing source code between Linux and SCO Unix aka UnixWare you'll end up finding code that SCO used as Skunkware in their version of Unix that is source code from many open source projects that also became part of Linux distros as well. So all you prove is that Linux is based on open source products and that UnixWare is based on open source products as well. Meaning that the only ones with the right to sue are those who wrote the open source products on which Linux and UnixWare/ SCO Unix are based on, provided they violate the open source languages by not providing access to the source code, etc.

Re:UnixWare rights?

[KGIII]

I actively used Windows ME and was pleased with the results. There were six of us who had just the right combination of hardware, black candles, and chickens. We loved it. A lot. I should make a comment about you being an insensitive clod but, meh... It's ME, it is okay.

Re:UnixWare rights?

[garwain]

>Even admitting to using or owning Unixware is >like admitting to using or owning Windows ME. :) Come on, I own Windows ME. I gave someone a $30 rebate to recycle (strip the parts that still work, drop the case at the scrap dealers, and dead / usless parts at the local dump where they recycle electronics) I found the CD in the drive, and through it on my pile of cd's t that will probably never be found again let alone used...

Re:UnixWare rights?

[Dimitrii]

I actively used Windows ME and was pleased with the results. There were six of us who had just the right combination of hardware, black candles, and chickens. We loved it. A lot.

I didn't have candles or chickens... (Whatever you do in the privacy...) I kept a ME installation running until the death of the hardware several years into the XP era. There were quirks but nothing insurmountable.

Re:UnixWare rights?

[Orion Blastar]

Ah well, I'll bet you don't even have the CD-Key so it doesn't really count as owning or using Windows ME.

Re:UnixWare rights?

[Orion Blastar]

"Swear to Windows MEEEEEEEEEEE!" -Christian Bale as Batman

If anyone wants to know....

[Anonymous Coward]

... "pro se" means "for himself" in Latin, although, judging from this guy's record, I think "pars merdae" would be more appropriate. ;)

jdb2

Re:If anyone wants to know....

[Anonymous Coward]

My Latin is a bit rusty, but I guess "pars merdae" translates to "piece of shit".

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[omar.sahal]

Plaintiff Jonathan Lee Riches sued Defendants Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Maddox Jolie Pitt, Zahara Jolie Pitt, Shiloh Jolie Pitt, and Pax Jolie Pitt. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie kidnapped Madeleine McCann in a major conspiracy plot to adopt her against her will, as part of a secret plot to take, kidnap and adopt a child from each of the 192 world wide countries. Plaintiff stated that he learned about the plot from his pen pal Billy Bob Thorton.

Loon or visionary

Tag request

[RockMFR]

Please tag story "microwavetesting". Thanks.

Hey, hey, not so fast...

[ediron2]

Darl may be mentally ill, but I can't be the only one withholding judgement on his status as a member of the human race until someone pays for independent review.

Of course, the very job of auditing Darl for evidence of humanity brings to mind the joke about lawyers v. labrats ('there are some things even a rat won't do').

Oh, you meant the cellmate?... um, Nevermind... </emily>

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[number11]

numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'

Wow, this nut writes his cases in Persian?

Daryl won

[richmaine]

The difference between this guy and Daryl is that Daryl won. No, he didn't win the lawsuits, but that's a small detail. He walked away from it all a rich man. He won. With our legal system, it is quite easy to win a suit and come away having lost money big time. It is also possible to loose a suit, while getting rich in the process, although that's not so easy a trick to pull. Daryl managed. I'm not at all sure Daryl is stupid. Crooked - yes; stupid - not so clear at all.

JLR, on the other hand, is in prison.

Re:Daryl won

[justleavealonemmmkay]

I aym iyn fulyl agreemenyt wityh yoyu.

Re:Daryl won

[Anonymous Coward]

Who's this Daryl person and what does he have to do with SCO?

Re:Daryl won

[Anonymous Coward]

It is also possible to loose a suit, while getting rich in the process, although that's not so easy a trick to pull.

I have to agree. Usually when you have a suit loosened, the tailor will charge you money. I'm unsure of how one would make money on the process unless you were a middleman for the tailor. Unless you happen to be the tailor and can "loose" a lot of suits. Then the riches will flow in.

Re:Daryl won

[dbIII]

It helps a lot if you are channelling the majority of the companies worth into legal fees for your own brother. Personally I think it was an old fashioned two man scam on SCO with IBM, linux and share price manipulation as the distractions to confuse the board while they leeched all the money they could out of the place.

Making clients sit through a spoof James Bond short film with Darl as the hero would in the past be seen as potential mental illness but it is now most likely just a symptom of furthur evolution of a clueless feudal management class without the benefit of adult supervision.

Re:Daryl won

[crimperman]

It is also possible to loose a suit, while getting rich in the process, although that's not so easy a trick to pull.

In the UK - if you "loose a suit" - your trousers fall down and you are unlikely to make too much money.

Re:Daryl won

[justleavealonemmmkay]

anyd thayt iys reallyy unfaiyr !

Um..

[inotocracy]

..SCO is still around? Good God.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[AeroIllini]

Are we sure he isn't also this guy?

Ahh, the world would be a much more boring place without a few raving lunatics about.

It's a little late...

[evolvearth]

Um, isn't it a little late for an April Fool's gag?

699 trillion trillion of AWESOME you mean

[gelfling]

Fucking Plato that rat bastid.

Darl's next career

[PPH]

Playing the part of the Black Knight in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.

"None shall pass!"

IAAM (mathematician)

[Anonymous Coward]

> An infinite number of non-sequential bills? Doesn't that contradict the continuum hypothesis or something? :-)

It might depend on how you defined 'non-sequential', but it's easy enough to give him a countably infinite number of bills that have serial numbers drawn from an uncountably infinite set, or something like that, if you came up with a problematic enough definition of 'non-sequential'.

Damnit

[Monsuco]

Now he's using the Chewbacca defense.

Re:Damnit

[plopez]

Now he's suing the Chewbacca defense.

There. Fixed that for you.

We Love the SCO Information Minister

[Anonymous Coward]

> Honestly? His claims sound a lot like the religious tomes of Scientology.

Nah. They're much more realistic than Scientology. But I'm surprised that he and the CoS haven't sued each other yet, given how many lawsuits they both file.

I'm sure one of them could claim infringement and the other would claim that their DNA was stolen via tainted waffles so that the NSA could microwave it. The only question would be which of them would make which argument...

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Anonymous Coward]

If he's such a loon, then why is he being careful to spread out his lawsuit filings across different federal jurisdictions, thus avoiding receiving any legal sanctions from filing frivolous lawsuits? IMO, this is a form of culture jamming, except he's targeting the legal system, rather than popular culture in general.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[loraksus]

I wouldn't be surprised if he's not a loon, just incredibly bored. He's costing the legal system a fair bit of money and time, which is an admirable goal imho.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Anonymous Coward]

"This guy is an amazing loon. Seriously, he makes Jack Thompson look sane."

Coincidentally, he also attempted to sue Take Two over GTA.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Anonymous Coward]

For fuck's sake, THE GUY IS NOT INSANE. Read the fucking lawsuits, he's suing because Larry King hijacked three of his toes and dashed his hopes, for damages of 211 trillion dollars. That's not madness, that's carefully crafted absurdist humour. I'd say he's a damn sight more rational and clever than all you retarded slashdotters who think there's anything wrong with him at all.

can anybody say...

[Anonymous Coward]

"best summary ever"? Of all the breaking news stories I've sen on SCOgate, this one is the one worthy of framing, for it's capture of the jolly caucus-race upside-down nature of the whole fiasco.

Hunter S. Thompson would have had fun with SCO, had he been a geek and alive now.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[KGIII]

Loon. Definately a loon. But, well, am I the only one who's jealous because he's not been sued by him yet? I'm gonna write him a letter. (I kid you not, he seems like he could use a letter.)

You should be thanking him

[Anonymous Coward]

From one of those articles, it seems he's been spreading his frivolous lawsuits across several jurisdictions where he's most likely to get away with that kind of litigious behavior. After being targeted by this guy, the jurisdictions in question might take a better look at what kind of junk lawsuits they let slip by unpunished and tighten things up a little, which means less frivolous crap all around.

Lost in Translation

[Anonymous Coward]

> Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"

Are you talking about Darl or the other guy?

For get taking over the SCO case

[Chrisq]

... this guy should run for President. Well if Bush did it....

History

[Anonymous Coward]

repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
  Karl Marx

Popular enough to be on Wikipedia

[ryanduff]

Hey, the guy has his own article on Wikipedia. Cut the guy some slack. How many of you are listed on Wikipedia??

Re:Popular enough to be on Wikipedia

[zakezuke]

Hey, the guy has his own article on Wikipedia. Cut the guy some slack. How many of you are listed on Wikipedia??

It's not a question of being popular, it's a question of whether there are any secondary sources siting you. The guy has been in a few newspapers, and poof there's a wiki entry.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[aproposofwhat]

I'd not visited TimeCube for a few years, so I thought I'd follow your link.

The guy's even more batshit insane than I rememebered!

Thanks for the grin that site brought to my face :o)

How did this not make TFA

[quantumplacet]

Really worth reading the Justia link in groklaw:
http://news.justia.com/cases/jonathan-lee-riches/

This might be my favorite

Plaintiff sued the Jena 6 for "Loss of My White Rights" and sought $100 million in white gold and the White House. Plaintiff alleged that defendants hung a white noose in his cell at FCI Willaimsburg, told the FCI Williamsburg dentists not to fix his white fillings, fed him tainted White Castle hamburgers, turn his cell mate into Snow White, called him the white Suge Knight, burnt him with Great Whites pyrotechnics, made him suffer whiteouts, gave him white phosphorus, subjected him to low white blood cell counts, and that Vanna White won't write. Defendants also allegedly turned plaintiff into a white collar criminal and sent Whitehouse prosecutors after his white skin.

This guy is definitely hilarious and not crazy.

Re:How did this not make TFA

[danzona]

I'd never heard of him, but I followed your link and thought it was hilarious.

I looked Jonathan Lee Riches up on Wikipedia, and while the entry is woefully inadequate for someone who has given so much to our judicial system, it did lead me to his suit claiming that O.J. is a hitman for Steve Jobs (amongst other things), which I found amusing.

I'm tempted to set up the JonathanLeeRiches.com website and link all of his suits, but I'm pretty sure he would sue me.

Re:SCO isn't competent? Ya think?

[Tolkien]

Careful, he'll sue you for cruelty to plants for having written on a piece of dead tree.

Then he'll think you're trying to get inside his head.

Make sure you eat any bags of Planters Peanuts you have in your house before you mail the letter!

Simple...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why the law has a title it impart on people like him:

"Vexatious Litigator"

It means that you can no longer sue without a judge approval.

Anonymous Coward

[Anonymous Coward]

From a friend of mine who has clerked for a Judge:

"This guy has actually already gotten a lot of coverage, and I don't think he's just filed 19 actions--probably more like 10 times that. In many jurisdictions, he is subject to an order that prohibits the clerk from even filing his complaints (they are mailed back to him with a letter and a copy of the order) unless

(1) They are accompanied by the filing fee - many prison litigants file complaints without it, erroneously believing that they are entitled to in forma pauperis status, or just taking advantage of the presumption that the clerk ordinarily has to accept the filing;

(2) he states facts indicating that he has exhausted his remedies in the prison system, which is a pre-filing requirement for prisoners under federal law; and

(3) he states facts that clearly indicate the court's personal jurisdiction over the defendants named (most of his filings are made indiscriminately, regardless of where the defendants live, depending on where he is able to get the clerk to accept his complaints).

These types of orders are not uncommon and are necessary to curtail crazy serial filers like Mr. Riches, of whom there have been about a dozen or so over the last decade. Case law requires courts to construe liberally the complaints of pro se litigants, but once someone has established a history of frivolous filings (not just a few--a lot), the only way to make them stop is the entry of an order that shuts down their abuse of the system. Budgets are tight and people like this take away resources from the resolution of legitimate disputes.

Is that his SSN?

[Anonymous Coward]

In the PDF? Maybe I can steal his ID.

Re:Translation -- CS Lewis

[Anonymous Coward]

C.S. Lewis wrote a book about this idea, called "That Hideous Strength". So you're not the only one to have that thought. Lewis had it in the WWII era.

I recommend reading this to understand the evil possibilities of actually implementing this idea, nice as it sounds on the surface.

Remember we've only got human beings to run it, not angels!

Funny Shit!

[jaguth]

OMG, his filings are fucking hilarious! http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/ohio/ohndce/1:2007cv02486/145363/1/0.pdf

4
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defendants are in violation of common law unfair competition. I dunked over Mr. Jordan in highschool. Mr. James hired a croonie to bust my knee cap. James took out a car loan in my name in 2003 to buy a hummer. Defendants are involved with Global Warming, endangering wildlife, setting wire(?) fires out west. Dec 6th, 2003 I caught defendants with gas cans along I-70.

Thats one hell of an accusation, and there are many more to follow! I love how he seeks 83,000,000,000.00 Billion dollars and wants it all donated, partly to 2600.com. LOLCOPTER!

This guy is definitely not crazy, just spending his time very creatively 8)

you shouldn't

[toby]

Thorazine is extremely destructive to the mind and body... Read Kate Millett's disturbing nightmare involving Thorazine when she was involuntarily committed - The Loony Bin Trip.