If you haven’t heard, Clardy is the Portland, Ore. pimp convicted in July of a host of charges ranging from compelling prostitution to second-degree assault for using his Air Jordan Nike sneakers as a dangerous weapon.
As the Oregonian newspaper explains, a judge sentenced Clardy to 100 years in prison for beating an 18-year-old woman (he forced her into prostitution) so badly that blood came out of her ears, and robbing and stomping on the face of a john who was trying to skip out on paying.
He is currently imprisoned at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution.
The man that Clardy stomped needed plastic surgery, according to the newspaper.
And that’s where Nike comes in.
Clardy, who is representing himself, says the shoe company is partly responsible for the stomping.
The 26-year-old wants $100 million and says a judge should make Nike put labels on shoes warning people that stomping someone is a dangerous thing to do.
“Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be upheld by potentially dangerous products …,” the newspaper says Clardy wrote as part of his three-page complaint. “Do (sic) to the fact that these defendants named in this Tort claim failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction it has caused personal injury in the likes of mental suffering.”
Clardy says he is starving himself and has tried to commit suicide multiple times.
The court declared Clardy a dangerous offender during his criminal trial.
He evidently didn’t give reasons to think otherwise.
He lobbed swear words at virtually everyone in the courtroom during his criminal trial, according to published accounts.
Clardy appeared in court cuffed to a wheel chair and with a mesh bag over his head so he couldn’t spit on other people.
He might be on to something.
I am thinking of suing Aquafina because it doesn’t warn people that water can cause witches to melt.
Florida’s Natural Brand Orange Juice should at least remind people that if spilled, orange juice can make floors so slippery that someone might fall and injure themselves.
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