Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
A Hurricane Katrina victim, who might have seen the Austin Powers movies a few too many times, has filed a $3,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s quadrillion) claim against the Army Corps of Engineers for his/her pain and suffering due to the failure of the levies. That dwarfs the $77 billion claim by the city of New Orleans and, um, the $13.2 trillion gross domestic product of the United States. [Yahoo News]
A Hurricane Katrina victim, who might have seen the Austin Powers movies a few too many times, has filed a $3,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s quadrillion) claim against the Army Corps of Engineers for his/her pain and suffering due to the failure of the levies. That dwarfs the $77 billion claim by the city of New Orleans and, um, the $13.2 trillion gross domestic product of the United States. [Yahoo News]
