[aldo_14]

and sues the credit card company.....

A New York woman who ran up debts of $951,000 on her Amex account is sueing the company for $2m for allowing her to hammer the plastic, Newsday reports.

Antoinette Millard, 40, says American Express should have realised she was mentally incompetent when she opened the sky's-the-limit Centurion account. Her court filing states that American Express "knew or should have known that [Millard] was acting impulsively and and irrationally at the time she entered into contract". She cites anorexia, depression, panic attacks and "head tumors" as contributory factors to her mental incompetence.

American Express has obtained a court order freezing $951,000 in assets belonging to the former vice president at the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank. To add to Millard's woes, she is currently on $100,000 bail awaiting trial on grand larceny charges after attempting to relieve an insurance company of $262,000 for jewellery she claims was stolen, but allegedly sold. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years' jail. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/woman_sues_amex/

[Styxx]

Unbelievable...

[pyro-manic]

I can't seem to find a word adequate to describe this....

[Clave]

Mentally deficient - oh, that's two words...

[Windrunner]

:LOL: that is too good to be true

[pyro-manic]

I don't even find that funny. I'm struggling to believe that someone could actually seriously do that; that they're not taking the piss. ****ing hell.

We're all screwed......

[Corsair]

d'oh!

[Unknown Target]

Hilarious

[karajorma]

I find it especially funny cause there is no way she'll win the case and then she'll end up having to pay her lawyers fees too.

The fact that after running up bills of $950,000 she's suing for 2 million  is probably enough to lose her the case as it is. If her defense really was valid she'd just have returned what she bought and sued for the difference.

[Roanoke]

no way she'll get anythin' if she's up for fraud. Hell, she probably won't even be able to get insurance.

[.::Tin Can::.]

I hope she dies.

[Gloriano]

ROFL she tried get money from ae thats why she said

"says American Express should have realised she was mentally incompetent when she opened the sky's-the-limit Centurion"

but i think she did lie

[Rictor]

hmm, smart idea if it works, dumb idea if it doesn't.

[Blitzerland]

Originally posted by Rictor
hmm, smart idea if it works, dumb idea if it doesn't.

If she pulls it off, i'll sue my arch-nemesis, Uzbekistan, for verbal harrassment.

[Goober5000]

Head tumors.  That explains everything.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
I hope he dies.

Who he?

[IceFire]

Take some responsibility for yourself....and where's the family?  People are "too" independant these days.  All the things that used to support people when they needed help (and we all need help sometimes) are gone...

[.::Tin Can::.]

I meant "she" aldo. My bad. I just realized that when I clicked on it again.

[vyper]

[q]People are "too" independant these days[/q]

There's no such thing as being too independent.

[redsniper]

I bet she'll get away with it. I don't know how, but she'll find a way. I hope she loses tho