Alright, normally I wouldn’t just do a wholesale repost of something else, but dude, this made me laugh so hard that it hurt. In case the image above is illegible, the version of the story that I read, showed up today in Gothamist. A disgruntled New Yorker named Dalton Chiscolm is suing the Bank of America for “1,784 billion, trillion dollars.” Among other awesome facts, the judge reviewing the suit is the same guy who doled out Bernie Madoff’s sentence. But the post really peaks toward the end.
NYU mathematician Sylvain Cappell tells Reuters, “These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale. If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense.”
Ok this part is so sublimely retarded and funny on so many levels that I was sitting at my desk literally laughing at full volume. It is so ridiculous: (a) that Reuters actually went through the trouble to consult a mathematician about this case, which is so clearly just another crack-pot with too much extra time and cash on his hands.; and, (b) that the mathematician, instead of shrugging off the amount as preposterous, qualified the scope of the requested damages by saying that they “might start to make sense” if the claimant thought that BOA had branches on every planet in the cosmos. If only all reading material were so rich.