When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

[geekchick]

Soon, we shall find out if you really can dig all the way through the earth and end up on the other side, thanks to the dedicated efforts of Charles Carreon.

http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/

On Friday, June 15, 2012, attorney Charles Carreon passed from mundane short-term internet notoriety into a sort of legal cartoon-supervillainy.

He transcended typical internet infamy when he filed a federal lawsuit last Friday in the United Sates District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland. He belonged to the ages the moment he filed that lawsuit not only against Matthew Inman, proprietor of The Oatmeal, but also against IndieGoGo Inc., the company that hosted Inman's ridiculously effective fundraiser for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society.

But that level of censorious litigiousness was not enough for Charles Carreon. He sought something more. And so, on that same Friday, Charles Carreon also sued the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society, the beneficiaries of Matthew Inman's fundraiser.

Yes. Charles Carreon, butthurt that someone had leveraged his douchebaggery into almost two hundred thousand dollars of donations to two worthy charities, sued the charities.

If you've been on the internet in the last week and somehow managed to miss this whole thing, follow the links at the top of the article to the previous installments for a pretty good summing up.

Comments

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy watching your trainwrecks happen in slow-motion legalese, the idiot has posted his filing at http://charlescarreon.com/Carreon.v.Inman.Gov.Code.25559.Redacted.pdf

The first highlight I've found so far, the twitter exchange in Exhibit B, to wit: "Who are you? Why are you impersonating me? I have reported you to the Internet Cyber Police?"

Also, something else related: http://archive.calbar.ca.gov/%5CArchive.aspx?articleId=83602&categoryId=83521&month=2&year=2007#s19

[geekchick]

I saw in the comments at either Popehat or TechCrunch that someone had found his suspension and mentioned it in comments.

It's too bad he didn't listen to Inman's lawyer, who flat out said "this is a stupid lawsuit, and you WILL lose, and lose badly" in his response.

[geekchick]

http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/#comment-844003

[free-of-whip.livejournal.com]

I'm still laughing over:

2. Charles Carreon appears as "attorney pro se," meaning "I am attorney but am representing only myself" and "I will continue to wreak havoc until forcibly medicated."

Sounds about right to me!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

All I can think of is... "this idiot will amply deserve what he gets in court, but too bad others have to devote time and energy to applying it to him."

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's enough popcorn for this one. His wife's been leaving comments at Forbes and TechCrunch that prove she's just as whacked out as he is!