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In Zimbabwe it is now illegal to sell second hand underwear.

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Inmate #40948-018 - The Man of a Thousand Lawsuits

Meet Jonathan Lee Riches, inmate #40948-018. Currently Riches is incarcerated in Kentucky for wire-fraud, but that's not really interesting. What is interesting, though, is how he keeps himself busy. While some inmates may be focusing on using their time constructively, perhaps studying towards a degree or working on an escape plan, Riches likes to file lawsuits. Ridiculous lawsuits.

"Do I look like an untrustworthy kind of guy?"

Well, we assume he likes it, seeing as he's sued over a thousand people since 2006. I say sued, maybe it would be more appropriate to say "attempted to sue" due to the nature of some of them. He's gone after some pretty high-up but mostly completely ridiculous ones also... like his last lawsuit, of which the defendant list was 57 pages long.

Here's a few of the honourable mentions from that list:

Google
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
President Hugo Chavez
Island Def-Jam Music Group
The Gambino Family
Kingdom Hall of the Jahovah's Witness
The Magna Carta
Tsunami Victims
Fruit of A-Loom
Columbine High School
George Orwell
Plato
The Panama Canal Commission
Nordic Gods
Holocaust Survivors
Gangs in Hong Kong
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The World Wide Web
Napoleon
Wiccan Worship
Che Guevara

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out the entire list here. So you might be asking yourself, "What the hell could he possibly be accusing people of?" Bullshit, actually. Total and utter fake-as-a-free-lunch bullshit. In his lawsuit against Steve Jobs he claims O.J. Simpson was a hitman for Jobs.

The Zune? Yeah, I killed it. Whad'boutit?

He also used a frivolous accusation in his own identity theft case which landed him in prison. He claimed that Grand Theft Auto "put him in prison" by contributing to him committing wire-fraud. The charge claims the "Defendants contributed to Plaintiff committing identity theft. Defendant’s games show sex, drugs and violence which offends me.” Riches continued, “Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross.”

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Parrots, The Universe and Everything

In this great lecture, Douglas Adams, master of English literature and a legend in anyone's mind, speaks at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about his book Last Chance to See. The book, co-authored by Mark Carwadine, spun off from a radio show of the same name, and focused on some of the most bizarre and endangered species in the world. In the lecture he speaks about some of these species, including the Aye-Aye of Madagascar, his adventure to Komodo to meet the Komodo Dragon and the Kakapo of New Zealand, and how humanity have influenced, threatened and tried to save some of these species.

So sit back, relax and be entertained whilst giving your brain something to chew on.

And if we think that the world is here for us, we will continue to destroy it in the way that we’ve been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.

A few years later a television show was also produced by the BBC, presented by Stephen Fry and Mark Carwadine.

Buy the book at Kalahari.net

via Mental Floss