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17 December 2007
Judge Judy nails an EBay scammer There were some below-the-belt punches by the judge, but I really enjoyed watching the scammer's ass get handed to her. It's like MetaTalk but in video form.
I can't stand people who act like some sort of disingenuous weasel wording is a license for them to do something wrong. It's unbelievable that the defendant would be willing to show her cheating face to the whole country like this. She must have really thought she was going to win.
She wouldn't have received a $5000 judgment against her in small claims court either.
1. Judge Judy doesn't portray a real small claims court. It's more like binding arbitration.
2. If the plaintiff wins, I think both the defendant and plaintiff are payed an appearance fee. So yeah, I'd go on Judge Judy even if I knew I was a lying, cheating crook.
Okay, honestly? The woman may be a scam artist, but she doesn't deserve to be spoken to in that manner, not even on television. To be told she doesn't like to work, just likes making babies? Maybe Judge Judy doesn't realize that making and raising babies IS work.
If there's a nice website about this somewhere, perhaps with original images of the posting, maybe after I'd read it I'd be more prone to mocking the woman. But not for making babies. You know?
Judge Judy is one of my guilty secrets. Her old shows (from 2001 or so) are shown on ITV2 at about the time I'm eating dinner. Most of the time her bullshit detector is spot-on. I wish I could be as firm with the complainants in my cases.
Also, while yes, making babies is hard work - but the scam artist brought up her daughter in that mother-is-upset-about-kid-being-victimized-tone she shouldn't be using in this case. "They left bad feedback on my daughters account!!" Ho-kay, your daughter is five at the most (oldest kid was five) and should not be having an eBay account to begin with. That was just a shrieking scam-artist waving the mommy-flag to me, and that makes me see red - and I think that's what pushed Judge Judy's button as well. She's a mother too you know. You don't play that mommy-card unless it's serious and someone really is picking on your kid.
I still have my solicitor's gown and jabot. The woman on the bottom row, second left is wearing solicitors' court robes. Solicitors don't wear wigs in court, unlike barristers.
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