Sometimes, stupid lawsuits pop up in the news. Spilled hot coffee on yourself? Sue because the coffee was dangerously hot. Claim a cleaner lost your pants? Sue for $54 million for the value of the pants ($1000), “mental distress” ($2 million) and the cost of renting a car to go to another cleaner ($15,000).

Now a California woman is suing for $1.7 BILLION because smart meters are making her sick. Apparently the radiation from the weak WiFi signal is giving her earaches, back pain, and an irregular period. The payout would also go towards everything she had gone through as a child, when she had received neurological damage in a car accident.

I don’t understand why people are so… intent on suing everybody else. Now I know that sometimes a lawsuit is needed or helps (Stella Liebeck got money to help recover from her 3rd degree burns), but somehow I seriously doubt the puny WiFi signals from these smart meters would really cause all of this woman’s problems when there are bigger things that could be to blame. I’ll be interested to see where this lawsuit goes.