A man called Dalton Chiscolm is apparently unhappy with the service provided by Bank of America.  So what does he do?  Sues them of course – for "1,784 billion, trillion dollars".

There are a couple of fundamental problems with his lawsuit.

First, the judge can’t figure out what Mr Chiscolm’s problem with the bank actually is.   US District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released in Manhattan federal court.

"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a ‘Spanish woman’. He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."

Then there is the small matter of the amount of damages he is claiming. Chiscolm’s request is equivalent to a 1 followed by 22 digits. The sum also dwarfs the world’s 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.

"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale,"

said Sylvain Cappell, New York University’s Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

"If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."

Maybe someone should just give him a few Triganic Pu’s or Ningi’s and tell him to piss off?