14 DAY TRIAL // A 26-year-old pimp from Portland sued the famous company Nike for not warning customers that their shoes can be used as a dangerous weapon and demanded $100 (€73) million after getting himself in jail for violently beating a man with a pair of Jordans.
Sirgiorgiro Clardy was sentenced to 100 years in prison after brutally stomping on the face of a man who tried to leave a local hotel without paying for one of his call girls, back in 2012. Besides violently beating the man with his Nike shoes, Clardy also assaulted his 18-year-old “employee," leaving her with severe injuries and forced her to work as a call girl.
After the beating, Clardy was found guilty of second-degree assault for using his Jordans to brutally beat up the man leaving him in need of stitches and plastic surgery. He was also found guilty of robbery and assaulting one of his working girls.
The violent attacker now decided that the actual blame belongs to the shoe company that didn't label the fact that their products can be used as dangerous weapons. He wrote a three-page-long complaint to the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution and claimed that Nike, and its board, failed to correctly advise their customers about their merchandise.
“Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be up-held by potentially dangerous product,” the man wrote in his letter, notes The Oregonian. He also stated that officials should demand Nike and Jordan to provide adequate instructions in order to avoid other similar incidents and mental or physical injury inflicted with the shoes.
Clardy is officially asking the judge to order the famous sportswear company to add a warning label on their merchandise saying “potentially dangerous Nike and Jordan merchandise.” The fact that he is trying to shift some of the blame onto someone else, in this case the producing company, is quite smart, but his case can be easily stopped with simple arguments like the fact that improvised weapons are used all the time.
There is an entire array of common objects that are used in violent murders or beatings, from bottles, boots, phones, hoses or other home appliances happening to be at reach. In his lengthy letter, Clardy also wrote that, because of his actions, he repeatedly tried to starve himself or commit suicide and he had an array of unusual and aggressive behavior during his filed suit.
Even if Clardy was removed from the courtroom because of his violent behavior and was declared by psychologists an anti-social psychopath likely to commit other crimes, the suit will be served to Nike and an official response will be given by the company in the next days.