Mother sues city for $900 trillion–yes, trillion–for placing children in foster care

[meow2u3]

A Staten Island mom is making national headlines today after suing the city of West Brighton for $900 trillion, alleging the city improperly placed her two children in foster care.

The $900 trillion figure, first reported by the New York Post, certainly is staggering and the standard response so far has been to treat the lawsuit as something of a joke, focusing on the mother's alleged mental illness.

But I have to agree with the Inquisitr's Kim LaCapria, who says plaintiff Fausat Ogunbayo is actually quite clever in choosing to sue for $900 trillion. After all, how many people would be reading about this story and discussing Ogunbayo's plight had she quietly filed her petition without seeking monetary compensation?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mother-sues-city-900-trillion-yes-trillion-placing-213613703.html

Where the hell is this city going to come up with $900T? That's more money than there actually is.

[rurallib]

1. And it leaves some room to negotiate.

[Fix The Stupid]

2. Good. Sue them.

I don't know how the situation compares to Canada's, but we seem to have a problem with our Children's Aid Societies.

They only seem to 'take' kids from the very poor or disadvantaged. I think they know the poor do not have the resources or influences that wealthy people have at their disposal, and see them as 'easy pickings'.

Anything that can shed light on abuses by agencies with so much power is a good thing, imo.

Of course, these agencies do a lot of good - it just seems that they are trying to justify their existence, bolster their #'s so to speak, to justify budgets and the like...

Playing games with our kids is never a good thing.

[izquierdista]

3. It may be more money than there actually is....

....but Goldman Sachs will be glad to sell the city a credit default swap for the full value in case they lose.

[Earth_First]

4. Bah! That just leaves a little wiggle room... n/t

[FarLeftFist]

5. Why not just make it a GAZILLION or a BAZILLION x10 to infinity!

[Earth_First]

6. ...and be *completely* outrageous?!

C'mon now...