)this is crazy…
and a little dirty
)I’d like to get in on this action…
Found on Yahoo!News
Man sues BofA for “1,784 billion, trillion dollars”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service – really, really unhappy.Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
“Incomprehensible,” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
“He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a ‘Spanish womn,’” the judge wrote. “He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers.”
Chin has experience with big numbers. He’s the judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence for what the government called a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bank of America Corp faces real legal problems, including New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s threat to sue its chief executive and a judge’s embarrassing rejection of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank’s other problems.
It’s larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm’s request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world’s 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
“These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale,” said Sylvain Cappell, New York University’s Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. “If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense.”
Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed.
(Reporting by Joe Rauch; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
)Found this interesting blurb on the LA times website… I know a lot of people who will be super pissed off if they ban menthols, I mean.. that will start riots!
FDA bans cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors
The move is meant to reduce the appeal of smoking to young people. The agency is also considering a ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products.
By Jerry Hirsch
September 22, 2009 | 4:26 p.m.
E-mail Print Share Text SizeThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday banned cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors.
Authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act enacted in June, the ban represents a national effort by the FDA to reduce an easy entry point for youth into smoking and tobacco addiction. Some cigarette makers favored and others opposed giving the FDA this new authority.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in America, the government says.
The FDA also is considering bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco products other than cigarettes.
“Almost 90% of adult smokers start smoking as teenagers. These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular smokers,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg. “The FDA will utilize regulatory authority to reduce the burden of illness and death caused by tobacco products to enhance our nation’s public health.”
The FDA said studies have shown that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25.
jerry.hirsch@latimes.com
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
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