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The Most Bizarre Lawsuit You Might Ever See
from the someone-please-explain dept
Eric Goldman knows I sure do love wacky and ridiculous lawsuits against various tech and media companies, but the latest case he sent over may set a new standard. At least in the past, those lawsuits were something close to understandable -- if totally unbelievable. But the latest lawsuit, Barboza et al v. Fox-32 WFLD-TV et al is simply incomprehensible. The plaintiff, which seems to be an individual, a film company, an advertising company and a psychic reading company (or perhaps all a single entity wrapped into one) is suing a whole bunch of tech and media companies, including News Corp., Google, MSNBC and a bunch of radio and TV affiliates of CBS, ABC and others. For what? I have absolutely no clue and would appreciate some help trying to decipher it. There's something about sexual harassment. Some other stuff about copyright or potentially patent infringement, and then a whole bunch of gibberish. Oh yeah, and something about human brain telepathy.
You can basically pick your spot at random to get a sense of the utter oddity of the lawsuit. There are words there, but they're sorta thrown out at random:
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Wait...
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Wilson Men's Hotel
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And ...
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Huh?
You have to warn a person when you post funny stuff like this.
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5 word response from most judges.
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That hurt.
I think in paragraph 30, he just said the accused saw something was about to happen that they didn't want to happen, but they didn't stop it, and in the process, it hurt this guy.
I think, in paragraph 31, a Blackberry might've been involved.
The next two paragraphs might have something to do with broadcasting his life story on TV, where someone can record it with a VCR, which apparently violates the DMCA.
That's as far as I got before my brain went on strike, protesting something about oppressive working conditions...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lee_Riches
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Thanks for the headache
I think my head is about to explode.
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The door is ajar on the loonie bin...
"Your honor, the brain chip reads the plaintiff's mind sends a radio frequency signal to the cochlea implants left ear and right ear."
OK....Mind reading brain chips passing data to his PC which forwards that on to some AI software on a website somewhere that is designed to create voices and arguments designed to torture him which is sent back through to his brain chips.
Helpful link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
Now...we just need to get this guy on George Noory's show.
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Let Us Go Forth
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The heart of it
The basic story of government, corporations, or celebrities remote-controlling a person's brain is non uncommon among paranoid delusions. The narrative of IP infringement is a new one on me, but you can see how someone would get the impression that throwing that in would make it easy to get a big-money award.
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"Hello everybody my name is Juan Louis Barboza, I am not an attorney, but, I will try my best to explain my grievances. These events are the truth, and are the facts without a doubt to prove that my software package is being used, (At the local radio stations,) and (At the local television stations,) in Chicago Illinois."
and it goes on and on...
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:abJjEs21wQwJ:anchorbabes.blogspot.com/2008/04/tamron-ha ll-teaser.html+%22human+rights+for+all%22+tamron&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
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Eating Funny Mushrooms
I downloaded this as a PDF just to keep a copy to show others who won't believe me if I tell them.
This guy probably wears an aluminum foil hat!
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trade secret
in looking for claims to sue over, it looks like he threw darts at a law textbook and just wrote down all the words that a dart landed on. i think he used the same dart trick on a stack of consumer electronics spec sheets when he was describing his OS.
interesting that he didn't name microsoft, except as msnbc, since he's suing over an operating system.
definitely schizophrenic.
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I'm suing Bill Gates, He stole windows idea from my head!
LMAO
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Hold it right there....
For alternate TV show endings contact me at Mens Hotel.
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Oprah!!!
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At the very least, the publicity will get him a room in a very nice, comfortable sanitarium.
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not uncommon
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red blinking tower lights
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Re: Thanks for the headache
I think that would be one's ears and vocal chords
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IP
Perhaps I am being too generous, but I think this person believes that the contents of his mind are his intellectual property. By reading his thoughts, the companies are stealing this intellectual property.
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This guy should date that Miss Teen South Carolina (dated reference, I know), imagine the dinner conversations:
"My unregister EEG bluetooth media player, video player, Life Story has been stolen and I want a half-billion dollars."
"In my opinion, such as, the Iraq toaster hemisphere colitis spackle dumptruck, such as, some people don't HAVE unregister, Quaalude ergonomic turkey stuffing. Thank you."
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Everyone knows Google gets its search results from pigeons.
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I tried...
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Oh
Alas, it's much worse than that....
You would think with a $450,000,000 payout, at least a few lawyers around the country would be willing to represent him, but of course, he would have to be able to explain the lawsuit in english, which it doesn't appear he is able to do.
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Wilson Men's Hotel
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Like everyone else reading the suit...I couldn't stop the laughter from rolling out when I realized what he really was complaining about...
...so why isn't he suing Nasa (he mentions them on his website), Microsoft, Apple, and just about anyone else who has ever had a hand in this stuff. I also wonder why he isn't suing every parapsychologist he can....mmm perhaps even the world of health...cochlear implants actually do exist and are used to correct some forms of deafness.
...brain chips, I don't know about.
hahahahaha, oh sorry...but I needed a good and entertaining read today.
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The man without a life
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That.. is...hilaaaaaaarious
I can't take it.. it'll take me forever to read this, and even longer to try and comprehend any fine.
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Make it stop...
It's like being unable to turn away from a car crash.
I believe he's using the software package HRFA, the cellular telephone number (IFB) trade secrets and Bluetooth EEG to suck me in to his universe...
Glad I'm not Tamron Hall.
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hahaha
"The software is my to keep and do with as i please, currently, i have owner ship, 3-30-2003 it was stolen from me with the broad of eduction number 99 when I was in the cartoon Author on WTTW 11 PBS"
What the heck is this guy talking about?? I almost laughed out loud when I read his software was stolen from his brain while in a cartoon. I didn't know we had the technology to put a person in a cartoon.
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So that's why...
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"When I past away, my family my wife, my children, and my great grand children can talk to me from the dead through virtual reality web system network."
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Thanks Mike
Perhaps for your next post you can direct us to videos of babbling homeless schizophrenics and we can all have another good laugh.
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when
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Re: Thanks Mike
But reading on it became clear to me that the guy is obviously ill. In which case let's just all move on, shall we? It's not in good taste to make fun of the mentally challenged like this...
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