Intocats

I agree, Toaster. Cases with dead people are so unsnarkable. Does anyone remember the case a couple of years ago where the grieving widow and the grieving mother were fighting over a life insurance payout? I believe the deceased was a professional jockey who committed suicide. It was the saddest JJ case I've ever seen.

Word, iwasish. I wondered about the whole boyfriend thing myself.But I was really scratching my head over how or why these two women became friends in the first place..

Amen to that, AngelaHunter. I'm not averse to snarking about Business Barbie but I'd hate to see her case profiled on 48 Hours (my second favorite show after JJ). Or Dateline! Can you imagine Keith Morrison narrating the sad story? (shudder)

The Case of Slim Shadi and Business Barbie….oh, geeze, where do I start? I wish JJ had let him do the show-and-tell with the Victoria's Secret lingerie. I wonder what Shadi wanted to show her. Was he hoping the underwear was Judy's size? Maybe he was looking to take JJ out afterwards for a lobster cocktail and some high-end purse shopping But dayyyum! His cards are probably all maxed out. You just know he's met several "soulmates" on match.com since the Business Barbie fiasco in January. Did anyone detect a slight accent on Business Barbie? Did she say where she comes from?

LOL, AngelaHunter! When this case first came on I was in my kitchen fixing a snack, and from a distance I thought it would be another May/December old fart landlord expecting a little nookie from his college girl tenant in exchange for rent. Then I came back into the living room and !WHOA! Alice/Imelda is the same age (or maybe older) than her landlord. And the cast of characters who were her roommates! Yikes! That household would have made a great season of The Surreal Life.

Mr. Alvarado is a shark who can sense blood in the water. In the hallterview, the plaintiff said that when she met him, she had recently ended a twenty-year marriage, and that she learned from this experience that she doesn't need a man. Honey bunny, a woman needs Mr. Alvarado like a fish needs an overcoat. His current wife/girlfriend is in the Ukraine? I wonder if they get JJ there.

Car Hop! They sponsor Judge Judy's program in my area. Their snappy jingle: "Caaaaaar Hop! Cars an' credit to go!" A down payment of $99 (and who knows what kind of usurious interest) gets you your very own vee-hickle to drive off the lot. I had no idea that car dealers in any state could sell to unlicensed customers. One gavel to Tychala's red-shirted witness who stood up (apropos to nothing) and was summarily shot down by JJ -- "like fish in a barrel".

I am a regular Judge Judy watcher who just started watching The People's Court. I *heart* Judge Marilyn! It is clear that she has a great sense of humor and her tough love approach is very refreshing. The case from yesterday (I think -- I DVRed it) about the young lady with three children (one of whom has Down's syndrome) who loaned her Lothario can't-keep-it-in-his-pants BF thousands of dollars…Marilyn's observation was right on. Why would an attractive young woman with three kids who need her have such low self-esteem that she needs to hang out with (and loan money to) such a loser?? "Who raised you to think you are worth nothing?" Pure gold. I do wish that JJ would make such observations, not just for the litigants, but for the people watching at home. ETA..it's great to see familiar "faces" from the Judge Judy board!

Was Googly Eyes the one in the bright green shades right behind Cannabis Nephew? Those glasses look just like fly's eyes. In regard to the motorcycle case: I couldn't even listen to what JJ and the litigants were saying, with "Jesus Take The Wheel" playing in my head!

Rick Kitchen, I'm going to stick up for Jennifer. The program didn't go into the back story of how they met, etc. But that guy struck me as the type who goes on eHarmony and Match.com and poses for all it's worth. Celebrity photographer with a million-dollar house, my ass! More likely he still lives with his mother and takes pictures with his cell phone.I didn't interpret her response to the Outback comment as bitchery or snobbery, just disgust with the whole situation. (Edited to correct the autocorrect)

How about no-money, no-credit, no-car, Outback-lovin', not-a-paparazzo Fernando Escovar? Jennifer, girlfriend...what were you thinking? You can do way better than that. Omg....Sailor Moon!! I read this post before I watched the case and couldn't stop giggling. Spot on, 27bored!

Did anyone catch the landlord/tenant rerun from 2012? I don't remember seeing this case the first time around. Margaret, around sixty, allowed her friend Christa (about the same age) to stay at her home for a few days, which turned into three months. JJ seemed to really dislike Margaret, even though Christa spoke out of turn (and got smacked down) three times. I couldn't tell if Christa was a total slob and mooch, or if Margaret was an irrational control freak. One thing is for certain...that "antique hobby horse" is hideous.

Yay! The Dick Stiff rerun case!

Yes, Florinaldo! You read my mind. Those two dog ladies were loopy. The poor dog looked sweet, but he needed a good bath and a brushing. And when the defendant said that she couldn't take Jesse to the vet because he wasn't up to date on his shots, I actually said, "Bullshit!" out loud to the TV set. Crazy Mother was a piece of work, wasn't she? Granted, the son probably thought he had won the lottery for receiving a $400,000 house in exchange for a couple of mortgage payments, but Mom fooled him yet again. Look up "toxic relationship" in the dictionary and you will see a photo of those two. I thought that Doctor Sicilia and Kenneth Dupree were in cahoots, too. The show pays the $4800 judgment, Kenneth keeps his settlement, and they and their wives go out for a nice steak dinner afterward. JJ is usually pretty good at sussing out those kinds of cases, but she missed the mark this time.

Quelle, I don't think the plaintiff can double dip. Teebax can weigh in on this, but how I understand it is that the defendant's insurance rates will increase if her carrier has to fix her car and can't collect from the uninsured defendant. If the defendant pays (as he should, since he caused the accident), the defendant can then reimburse her carrier and mitigate the damages. I agree that JJ can be quite pompous and "smarter than thou" with her multimillion-dollar salary. However, the honest, well-intentioned hard-luck litigants seem to be far outnumbered by the people who just don't want to take responsibility for their bad judgment and dumb decisions. Letting one's pitbull off leash at a park, litigants "borrowing" their student loan money to a lowlife boyfriend for rims or bail, attacking an ex and his new girlfriend with a baseball bat.. .and all the while not admitting to any wrongdoing or expressing any desire or intent to turn their lives around.

Detective Intocats did a little digging (I'm a San Jose native) and these folks live in South San Jose. While it's not the ritziest neighborhood in Silicon Valley, a single-family house will set you back at least $500,000 these days. I am betting that Vargas' girlfriend's mom probably bought that house 30+ years ago and owns it outright. A judgment would be quite a bonanza for Blonde Trophy Wife Plaintiff, but I would hate for the old lady to lose her property over that moron Vargas' dog. However, I have no sympathy for Vargas or his mooching girlfriend. I agree that the girlfriend was quite cozy with grungy old Vargas, and don't believe for one minute that she didn't want his "uninvited" ass in her garage.

What I hate more than the parking space "appointers" are the parking space "stalkers"! The ones (usually sweaty, creepy guys) who lean out their window and say, "You leavin'?" and then follow me to my car. Next time that happens to me I'm going to say, "No, I'm just going back to my car to get my gun."

AngelaHunter wrote: To quote a song, "This is fucking awesome!" Finally, something different. How I wish we had a video of these two, with their 1960's waist-length hair, duking it out. "I grabbed her bun.." Awesome, I tell you! I have friends I've had my whole life. We've had a few disagreements over the years, but not once did I ever talk about them and start the sentence with, "I took her down to the floor." Thank you, you two over-the-hill Alices, for making my day Thank you, AngelaHunter, for making MY day! I can't speak to their hair, as I'm a middle-aged long haired hippie myself. But Brawling Grandmas support themselves - aside from bingo winnings - caring for the elderly!! Just the sort of person I'd want looking after my father, when he gets to that point. Or maybe me in twenty years. Sheesh!

If Mr. Jeremy Bortle is challenged or disabled in any way, he certainly has an impressive LinkedIn resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremybortle

"Your Honor, I then proceeded to my vee-hickle which was currently parked-ed outside the bar."

She wasn't a litigant, but I loved Daisy the basset hound. Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant were unlikable in this case, and Daisy got her forever home.

I was bored and Googled the drunken landlady, and here's what I found: http://fox40.com/2013/06/05/woman-suspected-of-ripping-off-officers-badge/ That's the happiest looking mugshot I've ever seen. Must've been some really good moonshine! Yeah, but having Tourette's doesn't mean he can steal someone's check and forge their signature.

I wonder if you are thinking what I'm thinking? TLC has branded themselves as the "alternative lifestyle" channel, and I would say that the lifestyle of these couples is alternative, but it is of their own choosing. The men have made a conscious decision to suppress their "SSA" or whatever it's called, in favor of the wife, kids, and active church membership...the whole LDS package. That's not necessarily sad, it's just adults making choices. Later on down the road, some of the guys might have a change of heart. Or not. I did feel sorry for the wife who had been married to her husband for years (I think they said 16?) before he disclosed his "SSA". If this had been a dealbreaker for her, she didn't have the opportunity to break the deal before marrying him. The other two women knew about their husbands' inclinations and decided to marry and have children with them, anyway. Did anyone else notice the complete lack of chemistry between Tom (the bachelor whose friends were trying to fix him up) and Emily? Even before Tom walked her out to the porch and confessed that he's attracted to men, Emily couldn't have looked or acted less interested. It had to be awkward doing a blind date with a roomful of strangers and a camera crew, but still...

Then, in the hallterview, the delusional appliance thief, Mr. Chipperfield, had the nerve to say that he was trying to "win" his ex-wife back! Sure, pal...that's what every girl wants -- a guy who rips her dead mother's appliances out of the wall and sells them. It was satisfying to see JJ smack down the deadbeat dad who took money from his injured 19-year-old son to pay DUI fines and child support. It galls me when folks seem to think that they are entitled to someone else's money.

Nowadays people are worried about being considered "bad parents" if they don't encourage their special snowflake's every whim, no matter how untalented the snowflake. Kids are supposed to "follow their dreams", don'tcha know; no matter how ridiculous and unattainable that "dream" might be. Witness all the horrible singers who show up for the American Idol auditions. Mom and Dad have told these kids all their lives how great they are, and they are honestly dumbfounded to be told by TV people that they suck. If Kody and Christine were wise, they would encourage Mykelti to explore some other options. However, being the Browns, I don't think that will happen.