Fantasy Lawsuit

Where do they come up with these stories?

• The estate of a convicted felon fatally shot by police in March filed suit Friday against the city and the individual police officers.

Whoa whoa whoa...the estate? Of a convicted felon? Red flags all over the place to begin with. It gets more unbelievable as you read on:

• The lawsuit claims officers [#1] and [#88] entered the home of Matthias Mayhorn without permission on March 10, threatened him with injury and/or death by hanging him by his legs out of a second-floor window, fired a weapon at him while he was hanging out of the window, dropped him onto the pavement below and delayed in summoning medical assistance.

Uh, yeah, right, sure. It happened exactly like that. The other side of the story:

• According to a police news release, Mayhorn, 28, a convicted felon wanted on an investigative alert, was attempting to escape via the window when he aimed a gun at the officers, who then fired multiple shots. The shots knocked Mayhorn to the pavement below his window.

  A gun was recovered from the scene, and the incident is under investigation...

Call us slightly biased, but we kind of believe the second version there. Hanging people out of windows? Shot at him while he was hanging out the window? In a Hollywood script maybe.

The trouble is, of course, Cook County juries.