Yes, really. A 26-year-old pimp from Portland, Oregon, has just filed a R1 billion lawsuit against Nike – because he believes they are partially responsible for the brutal beating that landed him a 100-year prison sentence.

His name is Sirgiorgiro Clardy – and he says that Nike should’ve placed a label on his pair of Jordans that read something like, “Do not use this shoes as a weapon, it may kill your victim.”

This is because he was wearing his pair of Jordans when he repeatedly stomped on the face of another man in 2012. The man had apparently slept with one of Clardy’s prostitutes and refused to pay her. He needed plastic surgery after the attack.

In 2013, he was found guilty of second-degree assault for using his Jordans to totally ruin the man’s face. He was also found guilty of beating up his own prostitute shortly afterwards – she was injured so badly that she bled from her ears.

Clardy wrote a three-page complaint letter while he was in prison:

Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be up-held by potentially dangerous product. Do (sic) to the fact that these defendants named in this Tort claim failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction it has caused personal injury in the likes of mental suffering.

He wants the Multnomah County judge to order Nike to affix warning labels to all their “potentially dangerous Nike and Jordan merchandise.”

Riiiiiiiight.

[Source : Oregon Live]