Pimp is suing Nike for $100M for not warning that shoes can be used as a dangerous weapon

A 26-year-old Portland pimp has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Nike, claiming the shoe manufacturer is partially responsible for a brutal beating that helped net him a 100-year prison sentence. Sirgiorgiro Clardy claims Nike should have placed a label in his Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a dangerous weapon.

He was wearing a pair when he repeatedly stomped the face of a client who was trying to leave a Portland hotel without paying Clardy's prostitute in June 2012.Jurors early in 2013 found him guilty of second-degree assault for using his Jordans - a dangerous weapon - to beat the man's face to a pulp. The man required stitches and plastic surgery on his nose. The jury also found him guilty of robbing the man and beating the 18-year-old woman he forced to work as his prostitute. She was injured so badly that she bled from her ears.



In his three-page complaint handwritten from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Clardy claims that Nike, Chairman Phil Knight and other executives failed to warn consumers that the shoes could be used as a weapon to cause serious injury or death. "Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be up-held by potentially dangerous product ..." wrote Clardy, who is representing himself.

"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." Clardy wrote that he's tried to starve himself and kill himself multiple times. He asks a Multnomah County judge to order Nike to affix warning labels to all their "potentially dangerous Nike and Jordan merchandise." Clardy filed his suit this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court. In the coming days, the suit will be served to Nike, which will then have an opportunity to respond.