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[โ€“] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Amusing, but the actual story is moreso. Turns out Mr Tansie tried to win the damages via property in CA "owned by god" since the deed had been recently signed over to god. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝ

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_supernatural_beings

The rest of the examples in the Wikipedia article are pretty amusing too. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 month ago

Incredible.

Imagine signing your property over to 'god' only to be told god lost a lawsuit and now your property belongs to some random woman

[โ€“] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still waiting on that settlement money. Any day now, right?

[โ€“] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Gotta call 1-800-CASH-NOW.

[โ€“] TehBamski@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Infinite money hack discovered

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That'd be difficult to collect.

[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just sell the debt to a collection agency and have them worry about it.

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago

I'd buy that debt for a hundredth of a cent per dollar.

[โ€“] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

God should've showed up and demanded judgment by a jury of his peers, and then gotten a mistrial since no peers would exist (assuming we're going with the Christian God here)

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Cut to Zeus, Loki, Krishna, a golden calf, Jupiter, and the Sun bitching about jury duty while the pope wishes he had just settled because this was going to hurt the bottom line.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] nyctre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

He's omnipresent and omniscient so as soon as the papers came out of the printer, God had been served. If we consider the fact that he knows the future as well, we could argue that he had been served even before he created man.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't this how Lex Luthor got off, when Superman failed to turn up to court?

[โ€“] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, in Superman Returns. With Kevin Spacey.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that the one with the X-men actor who left the series to join DC?

[โ€“] mars_hardcore@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The actor that played cyclops was Lois Lane's husband in the supes flick. Not sure if he left the X-Men series for that though.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't that the same mythological creature from Homer's Iliad?

[โ€“] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strange, I would think electricity would be a sign of the Devil.

I would also blame the Devil for friction and static.

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Without fiction... how would we move? I mean to a point where we want to be and stop there. Not just anywhere we happen to end up.

[โ€“] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still blame the Devil for the friction between my legs and nutsack.

[โ€“] Pnut@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

That might be your ancestors fault. Don't blame the devil. According to Dante he's pretty chill(ed).