Since 2006, Mr. Riches has filed lawsuits in nearly every jurisdiction in the country, court documents show. The inmate who dubbed himself “Lawsuit Zeus” in one of his thousands of court cases has filed up to four of his handwritten petitions a day in Kentucky courts alone.
The 33-year-old inmate at the federal prison in Lexington has sued New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W. Bush, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and even Somali pirates. Sometimes, Mr. Riches asks for money, other times an injunction to stop alleged, if physically impossible, activity.
Among Mr. Riches' targets have been “Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party,” the ancient philosopher Plato, the celestial body formerly known as the planet Pluto and the Guinness Book of World Records.
(You know, I plan to file a lawsuit against the afternoon of July 29, 1997. I was supposed to get a booty call paid that afternoon... and I didn't.
Someone- or rather, "somewhen"- will pay!)