DoctorK

teebax, play it safe. Walk to the bar carefully, then stay there.

I was OK with the result of this case. However, JM screwed the guy based on his response to "did you see the gate open". This is ambiguous. JM meant it as "did you seen the gate open (adjective)" but the plaintiff heard it as "did you see the gate open" (verb). He didn't see the gate opening, but did see the gate open after the fact. JM skewered him on his inconsistency, but she asked an ambiguous question. I think she was correct in the long run, but this annoyed the heck out of me.

stewedesquash us old folks were taught basic english, basic tenses (present, past, future), many things that are no longer part of basic education.

I was thinking gin.

and nothing ever happened, it "transpired"

I loved the plaintiff in the second new case today, suing the mother of their son for restitution (court ordered for son's criminal actions) and child support over payment. He was polite, concise and organized, kept his claims simple and had the two amounts involved available down to the penny. Plus I think this is the first time that JJ has allowed a father to recover overpayment on child support. The mother didn't come across as a bad person, but she couldn't keep her stories straight, and finally admitted that she hadn't paid her share of the son's restitution because she didn't have the money. The son also seemd OK, his restitution was substantial but it sounded like a lot of penny ante 14 year old stupidity, not the level of thuggery that we have seen from other youngsters that age. Hope they all do well, a rare feeling for me when watching the participants on this show.

I have to say that the phrase "it is what it is" doesn't bother me. I have run across it, and used it, in situations where everything got fucked up from above, and the result was "reward the guilty and punish the innocent". When you get screwed like that, with no recourse (not that these people are necessarily in that situation) it is all that you can say. You got screwed, nothing you can do about it, get on with your life.

zillabreeze I have to agree. The "deliberations" really feel scripted, each of the judges with their lines and "bon mots".

That gave me a good laugh, thanks.

From Miss "Sunshine Hunter" (really!) on one of today's reruns:

girl friend was either very impaired or has a serious speech impediment. But her boyfriend belongs in jail for a long time, he's complete piece of of obnoxious trash. Sooner or later he will run into someone who pops him, thereby improving the gene pool.

How about NASCAR driver whose parents named him Richard Trickle?

RealityGal, I agree. I once spent a summer on a dairy farm. Cows will avoid barbed wired unless they are panicked and barbed wire is less substantial than the wooden fence. Panicced stock will break through alnost anything but normally rambunctious stock will not push hard against a hard or painful barrier.

Not only that, but the hands in the pockets posture would have gotten a talking to from JJ. Plus this woman was caught in a direct lie, saying that she had insurance at the time of the accident, then a minute or so later admitting that the insurance was suspended at that time. Surprised JM let that one slip by without a comment.

I finally caught up to this episode. I know I am not the first to say it but that redecorating was a travesty. For a building on the National Historical Registry, it was ham-handed vandalism. Just to add insult to injury, did you all notice that the new framed pictures looked like he grabbed just a bunch of copies of a few generic tree pictures with no connection to the history, framed them and randomly plastered every horizontal surface. Not sure I can stomach this show anymore.

From today's Father/daughter car/truck case of confusion:

I think we never found out. In the end, JJ gave the plaintiff a bunch of money, saying that the defendant definitely stole the dog but has no idea where it is now (I suspect JJ really thought that there was no way the defendant was going to provide any additional info). I think JJ also awarded punitive damages because of the defendant's admitted repeated burglary.

Oh great. Another "Gordon channels Dr. Phil" episode.

I saw it and I never watch Perez. However, I thought it was on Judge Milian instead if Judge Judy. I could be completely having a senior moment on this. I hate to admit it but these shows tend to run together in my memory.

As a result of my prescription medication, I have a significant "cotton mouth" side effect. If I was foolish enough to go on the show, I would not hesitate to drink the water. Sadly, I think JJ would bitch at me about it, and be obviously prejudiced against me because of that. Sad but true (I think).

I have to agree about the opening credits. To me they are grossly over produced, and work way too hard to try to be both cute and edgy at the same time. They don't add much if anything - at this point I don't remember most of the long gone contestants, in fact I didn't recognize them even before they got cut. As usual, YMMV.

Given the level of ignorance in the hammer case, "pointy" could be a claw hammer, a geologist hammer, or even a ball peen if the people involved are as ignorant and stupid as they came across in the show.

On the missing $50, I really wished that the store owner had managed to get the security cam footage just before going on the show, and it had been played in front of the plaintiff. Assuming of course that it showed what I think it would have shown.

I know that this is a minority opinion (even back in the fabled days of TWoP), but I can totally believe this happened. I have seen kids deliberately get off their boards while kicking the board back at other kids, in some cases getting some elevation and hitting the kid behind them in the shins. Then the kid that gets hit falls and all of the other kids laugh. At that age kids can be malicious (I can remember being that age, barely).

On the other hand, it is one thing to get a witness into court in your local court versus getting your witness to travel cross country. Even if your travel expenses are paid, I assume that it will include coach seats and a mid range (at best) hotel, so not much of a fun trip, especially if you have to take a couple of days off work.