Pimp sues Nike for $100 million for lack of warning label

[lurkingdirk]

Think it will stick?

A 26-year-old Portland pimp has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Nike, claiming the shoe manufacturer is partially responsible for a brutal beating that helped net him a 100-year prison sentence.

Sirgiorgiro Clardy claims Nike should have placed a label in his Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a dangerous weapon. He was wearing a pair when he repeatedly stomped the face of a john who was trying to leave a Portland hotel without paying Clardy's prostitute in June 2012.

Jurors early in 2013 found him guilty of second-degree assault for using his Jordans -- a dangerous weapon -- to beat the john's face to a pulp. The man required stitches and plastic surgery on his nose.

The jury also found him guilty of robbing the john and beating the 18-year-old woman he forced to work as his prostitute. She was injured so badly that she bled from her ears.

In his three-page complaint handwritten from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Clardy claims that Nike, Chairman Phil Knight and other executives failed to warn consumers that the shoes could be used as a weapon to cause serious injury or death.

"Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be up-held by potentially dangerous product ..." wrote Clardy, who is representing himself. "Do (sic) to the fact that these defendants named in this Tort claim failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction it has caused personal injury in the likes of mental suffering."

Clardy wrote that he's tried to starve himself and kill himself multiple times.

He asks a Multnomah County judge to order Nike to affix warning labels to all their "potentially dangerous Nike and Jordan merchandise."

In the past, Oregon defendants have been convicted of using a wide array of items or substances as dangerous weapons. The list includes boots, rope, a phone receiver, scalding hot water and HIV-infected blood. The "dangerous weapon" classification can spur longer prison sentences.

Clardy filed his suit this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

During his two-week trial and his two-day sentencing hearing, Clardy was known for his unusual courtroom antics. He shouted expletives at the judge, prosecutors and jurors.

A psychologist declared him an anti-social psychopath who was 100 percent likely to commit violent crimes again. And Clardy disagreed so loudly -- making such a scene -- that he was removed from the courtroom.

In the coming days, the suit will be served to Nike, which will then have an opportunity to respond.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/01/nike_sued_by_portland_pimp_for.html

 

[ApolloBalboa]

Two thoughts: One, how in the holy hell do you pronounce his first name, and two, does anybody else wish that Nike had branched into the market of comestibles?

 

[Petra]

All inmates have is time and often access to a huuuuuge legal library. Put two and two together and you have idiotic shit like this that you and me, the taxpayers, have to foot.

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

how in the holy hell do you pronounce his first name

In steps :
(1) Start with Giorgio, as in Giorgio Armani. Which we mostly shorten in speech to be closer to the pronunciation of "George." Jor-gee-o.
(2) Add an extra "r" sound to the end. Jor-gee-ro.
(3) Add a "sir" sound to the beginning. Ser-jor-gee-ro. Sirgiorgiro.

Thus concludes another scintillating episode of Phonetics For Dummies (By Dummies).

Although, he might be from somewhere obscure so it's probably pronounced "Dave."

 

[Briana Lee]

I'm sorry but how can a pair of Nikes be classed as a dangerous weapon?! If they're that bad how the hell do you class a pair of heels?!

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I was surprised when I clicked on the link that a) I wasn't treated to a picture of something really gross, and b) that Sirgiorgiro is Caucasian.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Two thoughts: One, how in the holy hell do you pronounce his first name,

Fucktard cockmonkey

I'm sorry but how can a pair of Nikes be classed as a dangerous weapon?! If they're that bad how the hell do you class a pair of heels?!

They can't...but if you stomp on a head, even with bare feet, obviously it can kill., They have been classified, I believe you've heard the term, "fuck me pumps"?


This waste of human life should be brought into court, for a counter suite by Nike, and left penniless.

 

[himperv203]

I couldnt stop laughing when I read this... So many ways people can abuse the legal system...

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I couldnt stop laughing when I read this... So many ways people can abuse the legal system...

 

[Lacey Black]

Wow, I guess all hard objects should come with warning labels not to hit people with them.

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

Lacey Black[/URL][/B], post: 8147944, member: 259053"]Wow, I guess all hard objects should come with warning labels not to hit people with them.

[insert penis joke here]

 

[Lacey Black]

[insert penis joke here]

:1orglaugh

 

[Maggie Green]

Haha!!!

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I'm thinking of changing my user name again. Sirgiorgiro Fluffybutt has a nice ring to it.

 

[BCT]

Two thoughts: One, how in the holy hell do you pronounce his first name, and two, does anybody else wish that Nike had branched into the market of comestibles?

That's exactly what came to mind. "Just Pump it"