A lawyer who claimed that his credit card company should have done more to prevent him from being defrauded by a prostitute has lost his case.
John Peoples claimed he had hired the woman for sex at a cost of $275 - $375 per hour. The lady concerned, a Ms Ginger Dayle who says she merely offered "pilates lessons", in fact charged him up to $800 an hour. As Peoples is registered blind, he claims that Dayle took advantage of the fact that he couldn't see what he was signing.
Peoples, somewhat surprisingly, says that he knew he was signing up to nookie rather than pilates lessons, adding that as he can barely walk, "sex is one of the few exercises I get to do". He sued both Dayle and the credit card company claiming that, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the company should have provided him with a safer way of signing his credit card.
Had Peoples stuck to the pilates story he might have got somewhere, but the judge ruled that since the payments were for an illegal act his claim was invalid. He left empty handed and with a very bad credit rating.
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John Peoples claimed he had hired the woman for sex at a cost of $275 - $375 per hour. The lady concerned, a Ms Ginger Dayle who says she merely offered "pilates lessons", in fact charged him up to $800 an hour. As Peoples is registered blind, he claims that Dayle took advantage of the fact that he couldn't see what he was signing.
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Peoples, somewhat surprisingly, says that he knew he was signing up to nookie rather than pilates lessons, adding that as he can barely walk, "sex is one of the few exercises I get to do". He sued both Dayle and the credit card company claiming that, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the company should have provided him with a safer way of signing his credit card.
Had Peoples stuck to the pilates story he might have got somewhere, but the judge ruled that since the payments were for an illegal act his claim was invalid. He left empty handed and with a very bad credit rating.