Robert Lee Brock is an inmate at the Indian Creek Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he is serving 23 years for breaking and entering and grand larceny. Brock is well aware that he has done wrong. In fact, he admitted that he was drunk when he committed his crimes and said, "I am a failure as a husband, a Christian, a Cherokee and a prisoner." So he's suing the person responsible—himself.

As the Virginian-Pilot/Ledger-Star reported, Brock's lawsuit indicts himself for violating his own civil rights and religious beliefs and asks for damages of $5 million—$3 million to ease the pain for his wife and children and another $2 million to support himself while in prison. The catch, of course, is that Brock doesn't have the money to pay himself with, so he's asking the state to pay it for him.

Judge Rebecca Beach Smith dismissed the lawsuit in short order, commenting: "Plaintiff has presented an innovative approach to civil-rights litigation, [but] his claim and especially the relief sought are totally ludicrous."

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