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You may be right but this could also be slip of the tongue or a brain fart. He seemed like a decent, composed grown up, unlike Mom and step-dad.

That was the defendant mother of the plaintiff daughter, right? I couldn't stand the defendants. Mom was so smug and self righteous (early on she admitted that as a mother she couldn't take care of her children, later she said that she was a great mother to her kids), and she and step-dad both came across as smarmy and dishonest. P.S. Any bets on whether the bag was a fake?

Angela, the game was "pin the torpedo on the sailor" and that cracked me up. Suppressors ("silencer" is a serious misnomer, everything you have seen in movies and TV is wrong) reduce the sound from really really LOUD to just really loud. They reduce the risk of permanent hearing damage that can occur from high power cartridges even with ear plugs and muffs on by significantly reducing the peak noise level. If you are out in the boonies where you can shoot on your own property, suppressors reduce any annoyance to your neighbors and also make shooting more comfortable. At this time they are handled as National Firearms Act (NFA) items, subject to the same restrictions as honest to goodness machine guns for no particular reason, and this involves lots of paperwork, extensive background checks which can be slow, and many beaureaucratics steps within ATFE. They are becoming more popular these days, perhaps because there is a much greater awareness of risks to hearing from even occasional very loud noises.

I can't figure out why the mother of the dog-kicking cat-killing potential psychopath was always on the edge of bursting into laughter whenever the camera went to a close up shot. Really, seriously sadistic behavior toward small animals in a young kid needs professional intervention, that is often a precursor to more severe actions directed at humans later in life.

It has taken me a while to figure out what these bozos reminded me of. It jumped out at me when Bear smeared himself with mud and ran through the woods pretending to be hunting. This how is a bunch of 8 year olds play cowboys and indians in the woods. The squabbling, the over the top dramatising of every action and event, it is all about being prepubescently and playfully immature. A lot of this may be faking but it does fit with what other posters have noted, namely that the boys and girls are stuck in (or staying in) an artificially childish state, with none of them growing up and acting and living as adults. The family is a self contained cult, or at least successfully imitating one for the cameras.

The case before DeLorean Kid really bothered me. I was up in the air until I saw the video. I have no doubt that the defendant was flying along at high speed (compared to moving vehicles in the background), and probably squeezing between parked cars along the curb and stopped vehicles in the driving lane. Whether or not she was legal in entering the bike lane (I would have liked to see a measurement as to how far back from the actual turn lane she was since apparently bike lanes are fair game if you are close enough to a turn lane), to me the primary cause was her excessive speed. The plaintiff as he turned would have had a broadening sight line to spot the approaching defendant and been able to stop if she had been moving at a reasonable speed. I also blame his insurance company because based on the fault finding of the police investigation, his insurance should have gone back against her insurance company. As always, YMMV.

Wyld grated on my nerves. He was too cute, too well spoken, and I believe extremey well coached. I was surprised that JJ didn't note that every time she looked him in the eyes and asked him a question, he immediately broke eye contact and looked at the floor as he answered. She has busted people out on this many times but I guess Wyld was just to cute to bust.

In the plane ticket case, did the defendant really say he was only 66 years old? Good lord, I am only a year or so under that but I was ready to swear that he was on the wrong side of 80. Other than that, I agree the case was boring, but I would like to have heard more about the son's illness, the miraculous recovery struck me as odd.

Maybe it is just me but whenever fierce, fashion forward hair artists, make up artists, couture dress designers, etc. show up on these shows they look like complete pathetic dweebs.

Maybe it is just me but if I was buying a Rolex from anyone except a Rolex authorized dealer, my purchase contract would give me some time period (10 days?) to take the watch to an authorized Rolex dealer for confirmation of authenticity and allow me to return it and get a full refund if it was not authentic. That is assuming that the seller would still be selling Rolexes out of his car trunk at the same bus stop.

From Bank of America's FAQ. I suspect that these limits change at least occasionally - six years ago when I was travelling in California, I needed $5,000 in cash immediately. Not knowing if there was an ATM limit, I went into the Bank of America branch and waited a couple of minutes to get to a teller and got the $5K but the teller told me that I could have gotten it from the ATM without waiting in line. Not sure what would happen if I tried it today.

Agreed, if I saw her walking towards me on the street, I would cross to the other side. However, I was struck by the way she managed to move her lower jaw horizontally from far right to far left as she talked, almost every syllable. I haven't seen jaw action like that since the last time I was on a dairy farm, and it wasn't a human doing it there.

Yeah, I remember a car crash case where she didn't believe a defendant's description of what happened. She (Judge Judy, just to be clear) tried to make a conservation of momentum argument and she seemed proud of it. Unfortunately, she was completely wrong.

The only thing that surprised me about this episode was the end card telling us that woman owner had gone back to her old ways almost immediately; not surprised it happened, surprised the show so openly admitted the failure of the rescue. Too many of the shows show completely unbelievable 180 degree turn arounds, with end cards with statements like "4 months later, sales are up 30%" - which means nothing, if the place still losing money hand over fist. Also, Eliza - wasn't it the owner who reverted, and the manager was the one employee that the end card said had left? I may have confused several of the completely unlikeable people.

Fake fish seller was really smarmy. He might have pulled it off if he hadn't claimed that comparable (apparently real) fish sell for $2900, but plaintiff was also foolish. Upholstery case - too distracted by the plaintiff's combination of Groucho Marx eyebrows with Donald Trump hair, not a good look.

The first time I heard this, I could have sworn she said sphinx and thought this could get interesting, a PC litigant with an interest in egyptology.

I loved the scummy herpes-facebooking-defaming women in today's first case. When JM called for a recess and started mumbling, I was expecting her to say that she needed to take a shower. Someone in the case mentioned screen capping stuff on facebook, this is really a good idea. A while back, an acquaintance unfriended and blocked me (not really sure why) but the result was that everything I liked or commented on on her FB page went away, but also everything she liked or commented on on MY FB page also disappeared. So if you plan on going on JJ or JM (or even a real courtroom), screen cap everything while you can.

That polling was hilarious, especially since the only person who raised her hand to agree with the plaintiff turned out to be the plaintiff's daughter.

Wow, what a case on today's new show! Poor innocent little shopper at the Vape store falsely accused (so she said) of shoplifting a vape battery by the evil store owner so she is suing the store owner about it. However, for once the store owner had high quality security camera footage, from multiple cameras, clearly showing her holding the battery, turning her back (switch to overhead camera) then putting the battery into her purse; this was after she made a big deal that she was wearing clothes with no pockets so she couldn't possibly have hidden the battery. More details, all carefully documented by the store owner. Absolutely a Judge Judy quality nuclear smackdown by the judges. My only quibble is that the term pathological liar was thrown around when it was clear to me that the plaintiff was a PROFESSIONAL liar and thief, who planned the whole thing and uses her little daughter to be a loud distraction while doing the stealing.

Actually, I have a real doctorate in physics but I am bombarded with spam emails for bogus doctorates. It seems to be a growth industry these days. I really noticed that, also that where the teeth were missing the remnant was bright red. Maybe the teeth were recently knocked out and there hasn't been enough time to heal? She clearly had a speech problem from the missing teetth, I suspect they were knocked out within a day or so of her court appearance. Might be an interesting story there.

Damn, I didn't get that show today, and don't remember it from the past. I do remember the park in driveway - go in house - move car - lock actual owners out of the their own house case from long ago, it was a doozy.

Slightly off topic but Judge Milian dropped in on Judge Mathis this afternoon. At first I didn't recognize her.

I loved today's first case, with the cray-cray ex-girlfriend, smeared feces and urine in the mouthwash. The greatest moment was when JM made a reference to "Waiting to Exhale" and the plaintiff chimed in with "Diary of a Mad Black Woman". Even JM couldn't keep a straight face after that comment.

I was curious also, but I give him points for not airing stuff that would have embarrassed the ex, since he didn't need it for his case.

You are Left Handed? OMG!!!!!! I won't tell anyone. LOL.