If your dry cleaners lost your pants, how much do you think they would owe you? $25? $50? $100? How about $54 million? That is what Roy Pearson is suing his local dry cleaner for because they didn’t live up to their “satisfaction guaranteed” sign.

Pearson said the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Act, under which he is suing Custom Cleaners, should grant a customer whatever he or she wants if there is a “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign.

Yes, you read that correctly. Pearson wants the money, not because his pants were worth millions or that losing his pants cost him millions but because he will only be satisfied if the dry cleaners give him millions. Obviously the American justice system has gone insane if people have to defend themselves in a court room over a lost pair of pants.

Defense attorney Chris Manning portrayed Pearson as a bitter man with financial troubles stemming from a recent divorce who is taking out his anger on a hardworking family.

You think?

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