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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."
Denny's or George W. Bush?
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To be fair, between him and Darl, it's something of a toss-up."
"Toss up"? You got that right.
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All because Andy Dufresne just had to build that damn law library...
Oh wait - I'm failing to separate fact from fiction...
Oh wait...
Nullius in verba
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?
Compared to SCO, this guy's lawsuit actually has a chance of succeeding.
Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
to pay your $299 (or was it $499) "get out of jail" fee, you ...
Sound like a couple of tossers to me.
"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!
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.
I would officially like to name SCO the "Zombie Company" because, even though it's dead, it
just
won't
DIE
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?
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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.
... "pro se" means "for himself" in Latin, although, judging from this guy's record, I think "pars merdae" would be more appropriate. ;)
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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"
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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>
numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'
Wow, this nut writes his cases in Persian?
What was that about Denny's again?
I drank what? -- Socrates
I aym iyn fulyl agreemenyt wityh yoyu.
Fucking Plato that rat bastid.
Who's this Daryl person and what does he have to do with SCO?
Playing the part of the Black Knight in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.
"None shall pass!"
Have gnu, will travel.
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.