Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ten years or more ago I admired Judge Judy Sheindlin. She showed a lot of common sense.
Lately it looks like too many people have complimented her on her common sense, and she's now going overboard, and thoroughly pissing me off.
It started getting really bad perhaps five years ago. She'd hear about something that happened, and she'd say she didn't believe it happened that way, because it didn't "make sense", so the person must be lying. Several times that pronouncement lifted me right out of my chair, because the exact same thing had happened to me! How can she say I'd be lying if I told her about it? It can so happen!
I'm getting sick of hearing her shout, "That doesn't make sense!" in that nasty tone she has.
Just because something doesn't make sense doesn't mean it didn't happen. Lots of things don't make sense, but people act that way anyway. Some people are just plain nuts. That doesn't make the recipient of those senseless actions a liar.
I stopped watching her show.
She has recently turned up again on the station that's on by default in my day's background. Some bits break through my filters, and Judge Judy is off her rocker.
Yesterday a young woman plaintiff testified that her books, needed for a college final, were in her car, which had been taken by her aunt two days before the final exam. The aunt had permission to take the car, but a) she took the car unexpectedly several hours before the agreed-upon time, and b) the aunt did not return the car the same day, as agreed, in fact she never returned the car.
Judge Judy decided the plaintiff was lying, because a college student studying for finals would have the books with her at all times (huh?), therefore they were not left in the car, therefore she was lying about that, therefore she was lying about everything. She completely ignored the part about the aunt taking the car sooner than expected, before the girl had an opportunity to retrieve the books.
It sounds like Judge Judy has decided that everybody does everything exactly the way she'd do it, and if they claim otherwise, they're lying.
Time to hang up the robes, lady. You've got hardening of the brain.
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1 comment:
It's obvious Judge Judy hasn't hoisted a college textbook for a few decades. First of all, most of them cost about $150, new. They are printed on heavy paper. The bindings are made of bricks. Altogther, a course load of books could cost about $500 (if not more) and weigh over 50 lbs.
Get a grip, JJ.
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