A so-called Michael Jordan look-alike sues Jordan for making his life a virtual hell. An excerpt from The Wall Street Journal Law Blog post:
Though Heckard arrived at the $832 million figure through some arbitrary calculation involving his age, here’s how Downey says he did it:
$232 million for my “emotional pain and suffering” caused at pickup games at the YMCA where everybody makes fun of me because I can’t dunk. Another $200 million for a “permanent injury” from having my shot blocked in my face by a punk who says, “Take that, Jordan lookalike!” Yet another $200 mil for “defamation” from the time I ran into Larry Bird and he viciously trash-talked me, obviously thinking that I was Jordan. And a good $200 mil more on general principle, mainly because I was once a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show and halfway through it she exclaimed, “Wait a minute! You’re not Michael Jordan! You’re that Allen Heckard!”
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