Drones -- Again

Kanno v. Three Unknown Agents of the Federal Marshals of Oklahoma City Office, Case No. 11-6187 (10th Cir. 11/23/11)

Plaintiff was in jail when he filed his complaint in federal court.  He contends he was under investigation in "secret court' and has been "given an unconstitutional death penalty by the Department of Homeland Security." He also claims he is being slowly burned to death by drones that use a microwave to boil and cook parts of his body, and that he is only alive because he understood the weapons and kept himself wet.

The case was dismissed.  Plaintiff will just have to keep himself wet.

Burning Questions

Lamke v. Futorian Corp., 709 P.2d 684 (Okla. 1985)

Plaintiff fell asleep with a burning cigarette and caught the sofa on fire. She sued the manufacturers of both the cigarette and the sofa, claiming the products were defective and that the manufacturers failed to warn her. Plaintiff alleged the cigarette should have been self-extinguishing. The Court held that the danger was obvious, so no warning was required. As to the sofa, the manufacturer was not required to make a flame-retardant product.

Unbelievable!

Slocum v. Corporate Express US Inc., No. 11-5083 (10th Cir. Nov. 2, 2011)

This case was dismissed by the Court for being implausible, outlandish, and incomprehensible.

Plaintiff's complaint alleged that her former employer, an office-supply company, hired a “surveillance company” to break into her home to install “audio-video equipment,” and repeated the operation after each of her five different changes of address. They took videotape of her unclothed, which they then “broadcast[]...to various radio and television broadcasters,” including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Big Country 99.5 FM. Corporate Express also made death threats, hacked into her computer and distributed her credit card and banking information,  slandered her on national talk radio,  stalked her, denied her access to local universities, commandeered an economics professor to ridicule her in class, precipitated her divorce,  caused an institutionalization that led to a hysterectomy (an excision of the uterus), and, finally, dispatched “agents” to practice a “technique [where] they would go to a restaurant that I was going to, and they would listen to my conversations with friends, and family, and talk to each other about things that only meant something to me, but my friends, and family would not have a clue what was going on." This has gone on for the “last four years and eight months.”  Its purpose has been to “humiliate” and “intimidate the Plaintiff over pending civil litigation.” Some of the wrongdoing was accomplished “in concert” with the Rogers State University Campus Police, “agents” of the State of Oklahoma, and the Claremore, Oklahoma, police department.