WITH all due respect to the woman who sued because Drive was too boring, we might have identified the most outrageous lawsuit in recent years.

    A complaint filed Wednesday in Washington federal court targets a weird series of coincidences in the film “Donnie Darko,” plus the TV shows “X-Files” and “Burn Notice.”

    According to the plaintiff, a congruence of fact and fiction adds up to News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and his Fox empire committing defamation and a privacy invasion against a Washington man.

    Michael Charles Bertsch presented the coincidences in list form.

    Bertsch also appears to be interested in numerology and makes it part of the basis of his lawsuit. For instance, he notes that the time code in “Donnie Darko” when the main character announces, “This is my house” is 13:46, which happens, yes, to be his address at the time.

    No surprise, Bertsch also is a fan of the occult show “X-Files,” which aired on News Corp’s Fox network, and he wonders about the show’s Ten Thirteen logo. He adds up the first three digits of his Social Security number, then adds up the last four digits and gets, ahem, 10 13.

    Other alleged coincidences include his murdered sister (like “X-Files” hero Fox Mulder’s), the fact that he was once burned (like the main character in “Burn Notice”), and the fact that his mother is a chain smoker (like the mother in “Burn Notice”).

    The allegations go on and on, until the last one in Bertsch’s complaint. “My phone conversations were recorded and used in the TV show,” he says.

    Obviously, that’s just crazy. Who at News Corp. would go to the trouble of hacking into people’s phones to get personal information?(SD-Agencies)