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.

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I hope he wins.ROFL

I guess he took the "always start high" saying to heart.

Everyone loves a reerun.

He's got a 4 year old attorney.
Who else could come up with that number?
:D

I'll say this - we once filed suit against Capital One and got a default judgment before the summons ever made its way from the registered agent to the person responsible for answering it.

While the default could've been set aside, it at least gave us a small edge in negotiations once they finally figured out what was going on. We had no earthly idea how to collect on it (issuing attachments on the federal reserve as a last gasp), so when they came calling offering to cut a check for a reduced amount, we were happy as can be.

File a reasonable suit against a large enough corporation and you won't see the court step in; you'll get your judgment a hell of a lot easier than you'd think.

What's in YOUR WALLET?

It looks to me like his request is the equivalent of 1.784 times 10 to the 24th power, or 1.784 septillion dollars.

Damn, I don't even think the deficit's that high.

Yet.

All in good time.

They have tracked Dalton Chiscolm down apparently it was an alias.

http://blogs.ajc.com/iceman-thrasher...02/dr-evil.jpg

I usually don't laugh...but that shit was funny...