Only in America.

A $10 dry cleaning bill for a pair of trousers has ballooned into a $67 million civil lawsuit.

Plaintiff Roy Pearson says in court papers that he’s been through the ringer over a lost pair of prized pants he wanted to wear on his first day [at work].

He says in court papers that he has endured “mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort.”

He says he was unable to wear that favorite suit on his first day of work.

He’s suing for 10 years of weekend car rentals so he can transport his dry cleaning to another store.

The plaintiff, by the way, is a friggin JUDGE.  Unbelievable.  No offense to any lawyers who might occasionally read my blog, but I hate lawyers.

“The whole city is aware of this lawsuit,” said Bob King, who represents Fort Lincoln on the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. “Everybody’s laughing about it.”

Everybody except the Chungs, who have spent thousands of dollars defending themselves against Pearson’s lawsuit.

“It’s not humorous, not funny and nobody would have thought that something like this would have happened,” Soo Chung told ABC News through an interpreter.

Her husband agreed.

“It’s affecting us first of all financially, because of all the lawyers’ fees,” Jin Chung said. “For two years, we’ve been paying lawyer fees. & We’ve gotten bad credit as well, and secondly, it’s been difficult mentally and physically because of the level of stress.”

Later, Soo Chung broke down in tears.

“I would have never thought it would have dragged on this long,” she told ABC News. “I don’t want to live here anymore. It’s been so difficult. I just want to go home, go back to Korea.”

“I’ve been in the dry cleaning business for 14 years, but this has never ever happened before. If anything happened to our customers’ clothing, we would always compensate them accordingly and fairly,” Jin Chung said through a translator.

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