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I learned decades ago that if someone says "sign now or this deal will go away", run away as fast as you can.

Jackie is a loudmouthed bullying sack of shit. She pulls this off knowing that the production crew will protect her from any appropriate retaliation for her abusive and threatening (legally actionable) behaviour. After the show is over I hope someone meets her in a dark alley and calls her bluff.

I have always associated fine jewelry with bowling alley lobbies.

He deserved to lose because he didn't prove his case, however, I think that his claim was probably correct. JM does not understand how surge protectors work or the difference between line voltage and signal voltage. What the plaintiff described sounds like a grounding fault, which left the ground on his panel floating and would not have been prevented by a surge protector. When he connected to the USB port on his computer that could have dumped a significant charge into the USB port (low voltage/signal level) and cooked it. I am glad that in the hallterview he concluded that he should get an outlet tester (under $10), which plugs in and immediately shows if there are any faults in the wiring, missing ground and reversed hot and common show up more often than you might think. The only way he could have won was by bringing in an EE as an expert witness, which would have cost more than his damages.

lovesnark - me too! Missed all of JJ becaouse of local coverage of tornado warnings and watches. Sounds like I missed some good ones.

Most of my Mom's cats were also harness trained and seemed to be comfortable with it. I live now in an area where coyotes are a danger, so when I get my own cat (definitely a rescue cat) I will do the harness thing, hhave my new buddy out in the yard when I am working but within my range to protect him or her from an attack.

I doubt that. Because he was waiting for the plaintiff to come with the money for the repair, the warranty on the transmission expired, he is stuck with it.

Just a minor quibble (just saw the episode), he gave her the car outright, titled it over to her. I felt sorry for the transmission guy, he was getting the $2100 in dribs and drabs over an extended period but ordered the transmission as soon as she started paying him, while waiting for her to pay him more on the total bill. Meanwhile, the warranty on the transmission (30 days) ran out while he was waiting for her to scrape up the money, so he ended up eating the bad transmission. I think the final result was as fair as possible to both parties, in spite of the plaintiff thinking that on top of the $250 and the free car she was given, she was still owed $5000.

Actually, it was even worse. After the plaintiff said that he had text messages to her, she said directly and unambiguously that she has no text messages from him, and repeated it. Only after one of the judges pushed her did she come up with the lost phone excuse. Classic lying by omission from a lying stealing little snot. If you haven't noticed, I really despised her.

Oh my goodness, what a piece of work. If any of you are Terry Pratchett fans, this kid is exactly how I pictured Carcer (a character in Night Watch), a smiling laughing full blown psychopathic killer.

Thanks for the recaps SRTouch. PC was pre-empted by local coverage (4 whole hours) of the Mobile Mardi Gras Parade. Looks like I didn't miss much.

Exactly! Many times JJ aND JM have taken a sequence of payments (even incomplete) as proof of a loan.

Thanks for the heads up Pufferaroo, sounds interesting. Unfortunately, I have concluded that Miss Sonia (as Judge Joe Brown always called her) is a decorative piece, based largely on her stance, in a modelling pose standing straight up but with her legs crossed at the ankles. Not the way anyone who might have to respond in a hurry would ever stand.

SRTouch - Nice summaries. I agree with you that the first plaintiff seemed to really believe what she was claiming, but she had no evidence, and the defendant jeweler seemd to do everything right, even bending his store rules trying to make her happy. The other two plaintiffs, just complete smug dishonest jerks. Two nuggets, the gym member, apparently as soon as she heard the verdict she yelled "Liar, liar, pants on fire" across the courtroom to the defendant - way to show that you really should have won. The final plaintiff in her hallterview about the justice system not working (yeah, lady, you really convinced me) looked like she was about to say that the justice system always favors men but bit her tongue, hesitated, then went to the justice system in general.

Giant Misfit, I am anxiously waiting for part 2. Partly to see how it comes out (so far the plaintiff strikes me as pretty cray-cray but they may pull off a reverse play on us), also to see more of the hairdo, which looks almost exactly like the copper scrubbing pad I have next to my kitchen sink. (edited to add:0 Just finished today's reruns, starting with an older lady walking her dog on a leash on the public sidewalk who was attacked (her and her dog) by a pit bull that came out of a yard by pushing out the bottom of the fence. The good part was after JJ found for the plaintiff and was getting up to leave, JJ saw the pit bull owner laughing it up at the verdict. JJ came back to chew her butt, telling her twice that there was something wrong with her mentally. Haven't seen JJ that angry for a long time. Second case of the hammer wielding rat-killing squatters, not too interesting but I noticed the female defendant violating one of my rules for success, your eye makeup should not weigh more than your eyes.

I was thinking that also. It isn't like they didn't know how big the car they were driving was compared to the speaker. I wonder if this may have been some hair brained (or perhaps hare brained?) money making plan, something like "Speakers-to-Go".

Way too little, also too late since the plaintiff has already paid to have the laptop scrubbed and the OS reloaded to make it usable again if I heard corectly. I would rather that JJ had ordered Angel to stand still and let the plaintiff slap her foul mouth a few times.

Totally agree about the niece, she was smirking throughout the case, and changing the password and then responding with a snotty vulgar message when the plaintiff asked for the password were straight out malice. However, JJ was right, that the plaintiff (who I actually believed mostly) was negligent by having her "irreplaceable" pics and videos on only one computer, which was old and she let it get out of her control with no backup. One thing the JJ doesn't seem to understand in lost/destroyed computer cases is that for most people a $300 laptop is not ready to go without buying additional software. Many people add something like MS office, a graphics program and maybe a low end CAD program, all of which cost additional money. If the computer is lost or dies, it can be a real pain in the neck to get the program reloaded on a new machine without repurchasing it; I went through this when a somewhat pricey program (licensed for one computer) was lost when my primary computer died hard. The vendor gave me a lot of run around before I could reload the software and re-register.

Totally agree. The defendant was a low life scammer/thief or at least a fence, but the plaintiff was so sleazy and obnoxious, I not only wanted him to lose, I wanted Byrd to come over from JJ to beat the crap out of him.

Like a whole lot of other things, the initial intention is good but the hustlers and parasites latch onto it to scam normal people.

More than that, the witness was trying to friend-flirt with JJ as if they were BFFs. Needless to say, this did not go over well.

Yeah, I have thought about this, the only medication I take is for blood pressue and the only side effect is cotton mouth. However, if JJ didn't like me we all know that the script would go: "Are you on medication?" followed by "yes I take ..." cut off by JJ so she can leave the impression that none of my testimony is reliable because I am on "medication". For grammar nazis, I understand that the period should be inside the quote marks but that makes no sense since the quote is contained in the sentence so the period which ends the sentence should contain the entire quote. I know this is a lost cause but ... Don't get me started on "ordinance" and "ordnance".

Angelahunter, I finally saw the old Peoples Court case (I couldn't see the video until this morning for some reason). Just Wow!. That smarmy, smirking plaintiff was unbelievable. As was his son - "I saw him pay by check last month... or maybe two months ago" [approx quote]. We all suspect that Mr. Porsche never got the top fixed and just got some duct tape that (hopefully) match the color of the top. I think our current JM would have come to the same result, but made the award contingent on the plaintiff providing a cancelled check showing that he paid for the repair prior to the court date, otherwise no award for lying to the court. Maybe I am mean, but I hope that asshat subsequently went into criminal court and behaved the same way, I would watch that on pay per view.

And he can cook better than 50% of them.

I really liked the third case in today's new show. Started out boring, then JJ asked to see a picture of the plaintiff's "car", and he handed up pictures of a classic Deuce and a Half" truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M35_2%C2%BD-ton_cargo_truck! I priced one of these a few years back for fun, thinking how much I would enjoy one-upping annoying people who brag about their big and bad 4X4s. Then I could pull out a picture of my 6X6 and add that I could also load 2 1/2 tons of cargo in the back. When JJ called it a Jeep, I choked, and the plaintiff probably figured that there was no point in trying to correct her. If he got it for $2K, he probably had to put a lot of money into to get it running well and street legal. Also, since both rear axles are driven and independently suspended, damage from a rear end collision could have caused significant non-cosmetic damage. However, unless the defendant's car was totaled (too bad we didn't get to see pics of both vehicles' damage), I find it hard to believe that a vehicle designed to travel cross country with 2 1/2 tons of cargo would be badly damaged by a "normal" car rear ending it.