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Man suing almost everyone for all the money on Earth

Man suing almost everyone for all the money on Earth. Suing for two undecillion dollars, as in “2 followed by 36 zeros” dollars. The lawsuit probably is going nowhere – the bad news is that now Obama will know there’s a number bigger than trillion.

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View Comments (6)

CO2Insanity says:

May 18, 2014 at 12:18 pm

I think all he's going to get is unobtainium.
Shang Kwon says:

May 18, 2014 at 8:42 am

Pretty smart. He can settle out of court for 1 undecillion.
- JPTravis says:
  
  May 18, 2014 at 9:16 am
  
  If the liberals running NYC were smart, they'd concede fault and let him have the city. Then it would be his problem.
Joe Redfield says:

May 18, 2014 at 7:19 am

Interesting; there are a lot of higher numbers than undecillion, though, so our political borrowing addicts don't have to worry about running out of zeroes, at least not today. Next week...
- JPTravis says:
  
  May 18, 2014 at 9:15 am
  
  "there are a lot of higher numbers than undecillion"
  
  So the man showed remarkable restraint.
PsychoDad says:

May 18, 2014 at 6:58 am

A nut or a humorist? And how much will the judge penalize him when he throws him out of court?