14 June 2007: All mouth but no trousers

An American judge has taken the owners of a dry cleaning business to court for losing his trousers. He is demanding 54 million dollars in compensation.

Roy Pearson alleges that the company lost his blue and red-striped grey trousers and misled him with a sign in their window that read "satisfaction guaranteed." He calculated the 54 million dollar penalty at 1,500 dollars for every day the cleaners had the sign up in their shop. The case has dragged on for two years.

Sources say this is quite legitimate under the District of Columbia's consumer protection laws.

SaintFM wonders exactly who needs to be protected from whom.