A Man Once Sued Himself After He Backed Into His Own Car

Despite how much we love them, cars make people do dumb things. Whether it’s willingly overpaying for them to being clueless while driving, cars can affect judgment in the worst ways. Vehicle accidents can really bring out the dumb in people. Take the man who tried to sue himself after a collision in this strange story I came across from nearly 20 years ago.

Curtis Gokey was both a resident and dump truck driver with the city of Lodi, California, a small northern California city just outside of Stockton. According to Gokey’s wife Rhonda, during a winter storm that December, Gokey backed the dump truck into his privately owned vehicle, causing damage.

Apparently Gokey’s insurance wouldn’t cover the damage because not long after, he filed a claim with the city for $3,600 in damage to his vehicle — a vehicle that was in both he and his wife’s name. He even admitted to the city that the accident was his fault, yet he still filed the claim. Let me reiterate that if you didn’t catch what’s happening here: this man backed into his own vehicle with a city truck that he was driving and expected the city to foot the bill for the damage. It gets better.