The Frat guys sue Borat

For those of you who have seen Borat, you know what I'm talking about when I reference the Frat boys. Out of all the offensive behavior in that movie, these guys blow them all away, and really stand out to me. Well, now they're suing.

Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie. The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera. The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says. The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen's character. The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States. "They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu. "They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker." After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said. The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said. Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit."

So, if what these guys claim is true, they may have a LEGAL case, but honestly, what they did and said really can't be blamed on the alcohol. I'm sure that jackasses like that would say those things with or without a camera in their face, and they deserve all the shit they're taking right now.

But also, this shows how the Borat film crew may have pulled some of this stuff off, and while the material is real funny, their methods seem kind of shady. Just something to chew on I guess.

[via Yahoo!News]