A judge is suing dry cleaners for more than £33million - for losing his trousers.
Roy Pearson started legal action claiming Custom Cleaners lost a pair of suit trousers he took in for £5 alterations two years ago.
Lawyers for the firm finally offered to pay Pearson as much as £6000 to end the row.
But astonishingly, he's pressing ahead through the courts - claiming $65,462,500.
Pearson, an administrative law judge in Washington DC, claims he's owed the money because he devoted more than 1000 hours to represent himself in the battle.
He insists he has been put through "mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort". And because he does not have a car, he says he'll now have to rent one just to get his clothes cleaned at another store.
Lawyer Chris Manning, representing Custom Cleaners' owners Ki, Jin and Soo Chung, said: "They have been abused in a ghastly way. It's going to cost them tens of thousands to defend this case."
The Chung family insist his trousers are still at the store, waiting to be collected.
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