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Man Sues WikiLeaks for $150 Million Worth of Emotional Distress

by Robert Quigley | 5:42 pm, January 13th, 2011

A Florida man named David Pitchford is suing WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange for causing him some serious emotional distress. Pitchford’s reasoning is as follows: He says that WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of sensitive documents endangered him and every person in the United States “and the entire planet,” and that this constitutes the intentional and negligent affliction of emotional distress.

Per Pitchford, this has caused him five forms of personal injury:

A. A worsening of Plantiffs hyper tention;

B. A worsening of Plaintiffs depression;

C. A Worsenig of Plaintiff’s Stress;

D. Living in constant fear of being stricken by another heart attack and or stroke  as a result of the foregoing;

E. In fear of being on the brink of Nucliar WAR

For his pains, Pitchford wants $150 million. Full legal papers below:

Blogger superkuh tracked down and interviewed Pitchford and found him to be “an alright guy,” though he contends that the lawsuit is “bullshit.”

(Thinq via Slashdot. Legal filing via Cryptome.)

  • Strained

    what a douche

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=676140273 Ken Dando

    LOL Nice try, what a joke!

  • Anthony

    He needs some sleep.

  • Julie

    If he’s distressed, he should be suing Fox news.

  • Mordecai

    You just gave some other moron an idea. Thanks a lot.

  • Wooley

    LOL this guyneeds to smoke one and buy some tylenol. 30 bucks at most

  • Anonymous

    dude is a schmuck

  • Con

    I’d like to sue someone for my life. Any suggestions appreciated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Willison/1729099268 Ron Willison

    While it may appear stupid at first glance. I contemplated an action against BP back when they were dragging their feet on stopping that leaker. <—-There's that word again.:) Being Oil field trash I saw what was going on for what it was. And I stressed over it big time. Made it a full time job of being in BP's face about it. In essence gave up over three months of my life over it until BP finally got the message and did what they should have done the first week. The link below was how I finally got their attention.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqdEpGqyD30

  • Amderstam

    Wait. Why is this so horribly spelled….? “tention” “Worsenig” “Nucliar”…this thing is only two paragraphs long…..

  • Anonymous

    This is ridiculously frivolous. Is there a bookmaker please who’ll take my bet it’s thrown out of Court?

  • Laura_l_james

    Greed.

  • That Woman

    Hmmm, maybe the millions of us who are sane should be suing our government for the years of stress they have put us under forcing us to watch them destroy our country and making us watch them murder and maim and torture all over the world.

  • Ikkle_zasha

    What a c*ck!

  • Barnaby Drake

    Telling the truth is now a sueable offence?
    Try tackling the people who wrote those emails and see where you get.
    All Julian has done is to reveal what is being planned for YOU behind your back, in secret and without your consent.
    If you believe that ‘where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise’, then turn off the telly and cancel your newspapers!


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