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"I tattooed 'KRUD' on my forehead for $250,000" · Yo Gavel Gavel! - Court TV Commentary

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This is a bramble Jam podcast this week on Yo gavel Gabble. If your
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kid gets hurt while your nanny's watching him, can you sue her? Judge
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Rows is here to sort out this nanny. No, no, the radio
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station tricks you into getting their call letters tattooed on your forehead. Is it
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their fault? Judge Gina tells us real people, real cases, Hey justice.
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This is yo gabble gabbo. H. That was a comedy of errors.
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First I realized I didn't have my mic anywhere near here. You.
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Then you kept the camera on me, your entire thing, and I'm just
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trying to get my computer turned back on and do the facial recognition. I
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look up, it's still me, and I'm like, real cases, fake
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justice. Everyone. This is your gabble gabble though it is. We're just
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already on Christmas break. We're just Merry Christmas, everybody. Christmas one week,
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yes, man, We're one week away from Christmas? Can you believe
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it? A week from today you'll be sitting around your Christmas tree, open
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up those presents with your immediate family. See what See what Santi brought?
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Yes, santy Claus, Santa is uh he's immune to mistress, is what
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I heard. Or he's already had or something. I don't know, Mistress,
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I don't know why unless he's a mall Santa, because I did see
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that there was a little situation somewhere recently. Yeah that makes sense, So
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there you go. Um, if you were Santa, would you take the
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year off? Oh? Yeah, for sure? Yeah yeah, coal for
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everybody. Yeah, I always laugh. There's a special that I watched going
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up a year without a Santa claus Um and it's a ranking and baths sitch
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and it's great and Santa is a little bit under the weather and Christmas spirits
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down. Oh he takes takes you. He wants to take the year off,
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and so the elves go down to see it prove that they're still Christmas
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spirit. And my I just I I every year, even as a kid,
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I was like, it's one day, like just like even if you're
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throwing up, just like fight like, it's literally one day. Even as
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a kid, I had that counting on you. Yeah, I had that
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rational. So, um, we've got some doozies today. Who do you
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have? Judge Ross went back to America's court, baby, and I go
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back to I went back to the personal injury court, which I just love
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you has to be. I saw I was watching mine and looked up and
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just saw a guy with crud tattooed on his forehead. So I can't wait
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for yours, but I feel like it's the main course. You think mine's
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a little shorter. Okay, you want me to go ahead? Let okay,
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So let me introduce you to Tara and Jerry Oakford. I don't want
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I've had it with that. Yeah, I think we all hope. They
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are suing Madison Walsh for two thousand, three hundred forty seven dollars and sixty
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six since. Um, they both need to speak to the manager. They
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are the parents of a three year old named Cameron. Now I need to
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tell you this before we go any further in this case. Apparently I just
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clicked on the YouTube TV DVR. This case is from twenty ten. Okay,
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wow, so there's gonna be a lot of referencing the internet on this
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case. And if you have the question of wait a minute, that's not
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that big of a deal. In two ten, how does Judge Ross look?
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Um, he looks great, just a fox Chris. He doesn't look
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at his age much in ten years. It's unreal. Um. This was
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in season one apparently of this is the first season ever of Judge Rows.
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So h. This takes place in twenty ten. That should help us technologically.
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Are you now ready to go? Ready to go? Okay? Good?
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So U. The parents are suing Madison for their three year old emergency
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room bills. H not their three year old emergency room bills, their emergency
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room bills from their three year old while the child was in the care of
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wash. The child's name is Cameron. They said they hired Madison in March
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of twenty ten, and they they wanted her to be a part time nanny.
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Basically, while Tara was at work Monday Wednesday Friday nine am to three
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pm, she would nanny them, so roughly eighteen twenty hours a week.
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So on May twenty eighth, roughly three months into Madison's care of Cameron,
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there was a call made from Madison to Tara saying, oh my goodness,
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Cameron has fallen down the stairs. Were going to the emergent. He can't
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get up, He's fallen down. This hate that so um. Judge Raws
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stops and talks to the dad and says, hey, uh, Jerry,
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during the three months before this incident, were you pleased with Madison's performance?
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He says, yep. She was a great nanny. She cared for her
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son. Our son loved her, no issues, great references. Um,
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how long did she work with them? Three months? Started March, all
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of March, all of April. This happened May twenty eight most so they
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met at the urgent Care clinic and you know, there were some bills associated.
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I don't know what all happened, but he has a cast on now
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and we're reminding the boy. The boy does okay. So um, Judge
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Ross turns to Madison Walsh and says, miss Walsh, h you're responsible for
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caring for Cameron. Is it every day? No, they do this whole
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part time. Bid it's three days a week. And then he says have
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you ever worked as a nanny before, and she says, yeah, I've
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worked on and off for five years. I'm a student and so I do
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this to help pay for my college. Um, and I love Cameron like
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he's my own boy. Um. We were playing in the living room.
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We were playing hide and see kind of like an I'm gonna get you a
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game. You know, like three year olds they run around, I'm gonna
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get you, and that's what we were playing. Wow, I know I
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know the game well as well anybody's had a three year old and knows the
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game. So without like, it's not it's not as good as to say,
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hey, I'm gonna go to sleep game. That's my favorite. Yeah,
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the favorite game. The best is my kids now are into knock knock
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jokes. They don't quite know how they work, and it's fantastic. Give
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me one, um uh and uh, this is one. Rady's knock knock.
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He's there, Daddy, daddy, daddy. Tickle there's one that's good.
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That's a good one. Turn it into a tickle bit. I love.
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Their favorite is I say knock knock, and I say night, night
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night, and I fall asleep and they come and wake me up. And
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when they wake me up, I yelled good morning and tickle them and they
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literally every day after dinner, Jay comes over dead. Can we play knock
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knock? I think it's a jam. I love it right, so I'm
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not, no, no, well let's try it. That's not knock knock.
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No no, no, no, no no. Brand So this three
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year old tickletill, tickletil. Today you are doing the answers even though I
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didn't ask the questions. That's impressive. Knock knock brand tickletill, it's good
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stuff. This is where yours where bramble jam plus sign up ad free.
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Uh. So, she says she's playing I'm Gonna Get You, and car
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Cameron darts up the stairs. Yes, he runs up the stairs. He
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thinks that's part of the fund, so she immediately follows him up the stairs.
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He's in his room playing and they continue to play the game in his
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room. I'm Gonna get you, blah blah blah. He runs out of
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his room and the staircase splits the parents' bedroom and the kid's bedroom. So
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are you with me? Staircase parents better room one side, kids better room
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on the other. He runs like he's going and this is her observation.
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She gets up to chase him. He runs like he's going to his parents'
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bedroom, and in her witness, she says, it either he turned or
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he stopped, but his foot slipped on the top step. He fell all
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the way down the stairs. Immediately, I called the parents, made sure
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he was okay. We took him to the urgency, urgent care clinic,
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the urgency. That is what happened, the urgency. So Kevin Ross says,
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mister and missus Oakford were either of you there when this incident occurred.
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They both say no. He says, okay, do you have a nanny
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camp or some sort of surveillance device in your home to see what's going on
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there? They both say no, and he says, so how do you
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know this is negligent? And they said, well, I went on the
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Internet the evening of the incident and saw that Madison had posted board come a
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babysitting five minutes before she called me, by five minutes before she called me,
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posted that on the internet. You know the internet. You've heard of
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it. And Ross said, Madison, did you post that on the internet?
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And she said, I don't remember putting anything on the Internet. The
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only time I get on the internet is when Cameron is napping and mister Oakeford
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starts waving around. She had a paper waving around. Ross is like,
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what Internet? Well? This my space? Facebook? They don't say,
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but they say the social site. I think it's Facebook. Oh they can't
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use it. That's what I think is happening here. So um, mister
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Rogford says, I have printed this. He says this, I printed this
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out from the internet. I printed this out from the internet. And this
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happened five minutes before the phone call. And she says, how do you
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know what happened five minutes with a phone call? I got called on my
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lunch break. I would have lunch, I had to clock out twelve thirty's
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when I got the phone call. We can match it up five minutes ross
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because hey, have you seen this yet, Madison? No, I've not
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seen it yet. He says, Well, the timing of this call and
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this post doesn't describe the same incident that you described to me. I need
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you to explain the difference. And she says, I understand why you have
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questions. I don't remember posting that at that time, but I with a
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three year old, a lot can happen in ten minutes. Their computer is
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in the living room. I don't recall being on the internet at the time
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before the incident. That's right, because it's not like she had a smartphone.
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She would have had to be on a desktop logged in to the internet,
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right, So then missus oaks a computer. It's in the living room,
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where they were playing. Okay, Missus Oakrad said she shouldn't be on
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the internet at all, and Ross says, is that an agreement that you
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have and and missus Oakford says yes. He says if it's written, it's
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not written anywhere. But that's an agreement he said they had. Mister Oakford
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said, look, she's on her phone. We understand accents happened. She's
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on her phone all the time. Anyway, it would not see Yeah,
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she would not surprise me if she's also getting on the internet as well.
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And Madison said, it's never been a problem. You've never complained to me
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about that. Ever. Ross says, hey, you said she was a
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good babysitter for three months, so that seems like it's not not adding up.
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So um, Ross said, hey, is this what like? Is
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this the only way this could have happened? And and uh, mister Roakeford
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said, I think it's highly probable based upon this post, and Ross says
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I do too, I think it's highly probable as well. And then rossays,
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how she was on the internet, and yes, how's Cameron doing?
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And and uh, the mom says healing, but he's in a cast just
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like that like, how dare you so? Now? Ross is ready for
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the ruling two thousand and six whatever, it doesn't matter, you know that,
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Like they're not going to split it up? How much two thousand wait
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for it, three hundred forty dollars and sixty six cents. You know.
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I think the evidence in this case shows that at the at the very least,
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it didn't go exactly as she's saying. So in my mind, that's
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enough to give them the full amount. Ross is going to disagree with it.
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Interesting, he says, I always like his reasoning. So, look,
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I'm dealing with a three year old. I've had a three year old
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who had a couple of them. They're they're everywhere all the time there,
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Yes, that's exactly right. Is it possible that she was negligent and posted
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this and he felt? Yeah? In fact, I think it's highly considering
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the social media post, I think it's highly possible. But is it possible
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that she was watching this child the whole time like a hawk and this still
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happened? Yes, it is. It's still possible she was doing a great
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job and this happened. I have a witness from the dad that says she
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was a great nanny for three months with great references. I have two very
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believable witnesses. One was there, one wasn't. I cannot, with any
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judgment tell you that this definitely happened, and because of that, I have
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to judge in favor of the defendant for the entire man. No money given.
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My thing though, is yeah, I don't disagree. You can't prove
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that. But at the same time, she lied, well, she says,
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her thing is is I don't remember posting that at that time. A
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lot can happen. But she all at whether or not you said that.
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She said she was not on the computer, said I only get on the
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internet when he naps. Exactly right, Yes, So is that true or
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not? If if if she was on the internet this time and he wasn't
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napping, that's a lie. Therefore her witness she's thrown out. There were
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no phone records. There is a woman who got the thing on lunch break.
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She clocked out for lunch break, and there's the post um and then
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in the in the afterwards, the mom just says for the little after post
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thing, yeah, she shouldn't have been on that internet. Yeah, which
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shouldn't have been on that You don't get on that internet now, you don't,
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you shouldn't. Yeah, this internet, that Internet? What about this
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one? This one? Yes for no way no, Uh, we're gonna
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come back, Judge Gino, Personal injury for the legal legal sauce. We're
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gonna get to it here on y gotta go. Well back, everybody,
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it's time for personal injury chords, Judge Gino. I want to introduce you
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to a couple of people. One. Uh, he's to Plankton. His
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name is Joe Bell, joey. Uh. You know in personal injury court,
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Dan, big money is big money is at stake half mil steak Yeah,
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well a little more than half mil. Oh didn't know as possible.
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Here's what we got here, suing Joe bells uh two hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars in damages okay, ten thousand dollars in future medical and then two hundred
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and fifty k and paint and suffering for a total of five ten okay.
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He is suing the k r u D radio station Crude, namely DJ Crazy
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Silence. DJ Crazy silas one of my favorite names. Let me introduce you
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to everybody. I did that already. Here we go, Joe Joe Bell.
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No, Joe Bell started listening to k r u D a few years
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back and he loved it. Good music, good programs, good DJs,
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and he was especially fond of DJ Crazy Silas. Yeah, who wouldn't be
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he's you know you remember you know or not? Or mid two thousands,
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shock jock radio was at its peace. Oh yeah, the pranks, the
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craziness of all of it, and that's kind of DJ Crazy Silas was that
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guy. They loved the pranks. Now he gets a call from a friends
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says, hey, are you listening to kru D And he's like, no,
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not right now. And he says, well, here's the thing.
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They are offering the first person to tat two k r u D on their
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forehead two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Wow, now big money. He
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sees this as a godsend because it's a godwink. Because my guy, he's
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a little bit down on his left. He's had to move back in with
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his parents and his parents are about to lose their house. You know what
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would help there if he had a crud tip dude on your forehead. If
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you did that, you can get a job pretty easy. Well no,
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but the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars would be enough to save the house.
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Okay, cool, Yeah enough to save the house. Now, Gino
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is like, so you are willing to get kru d crud tattooed on your
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head to save your parents' house. Yeah, you're a great son. Maybe
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a little crazy, but you're a great son. So, speaking of crazy,
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I we got to talk about Crazy Silence. Now, Crazy Silence.
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He's the DJ. He's a big deal on campus and he is known for
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his pranks, his games, and his contests, including the classics such as
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bobbing for pigs feet and the ever popular Mayo belly Flop contest that they have
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every year where they fill an inflatable pool with Mayo and people do belly flops.
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Winner takes all, loser walks loser walks, Yes, I think everybody's
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a loser in that situation. Yes, so that's the type of show Mayo
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belly Flap. I know exactly, you know exactly who he is. Now
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back to Joe. Joe says that he heard about it, heard about the
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contest from a friend, called him out, and so he want to do
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his due diligence. Called the station the station said, go to the website,
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check out the page, all the informations there. Okay, okay.
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So he goes to the website and it says first person to get kr U
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D right on the forehead, says on the website right. Okay. So
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he does not waste any time, marches down to the first tattoo parlor that
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he can find. You don't have to apply or anything, No, you
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just do it. Okay. Goes down, finds the first tattoo parlor,
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gets a tattooed right on his head. It's thick, you saw it.
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It's mess it's big, it is thick requirement he went big. No,
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he went big. It is from I it is, and it is thick
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letters. Yeah, it's not like a bold all caps all caps kr U
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D. And he goes from the tattoo parlor down to the station and he
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walks into the station and everybody in the station is staring at him in disbelief.
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They start to laugh at him. They start to take pictures of him,
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which he thinks they're posting on social media. Yeah, and he starts
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to get a bad feeling, and so a station representative comes down to meet
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him and says mister Bell. There's been a horrible misunderstanding. What give him
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all the money? Silas is like the crazy. Silence is like, never
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in a million years did I think that someone would actually do this. Now
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there's a station manager there, and a station manager brings us to the website.
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Website very clear. Here it is small link on the bottom right that
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says click for official rules. When you click for the official rules, a
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new web page pops up and says April Fools. It's April April first.
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It's an April first bit, April Fools now. And she says not only
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that, but four weeks leading up to this, on the station, we
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had an ad running that said our biggest April Fools joke ever is coming April
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first. Oh my goodness. So that's been running for weeks. Gino says,
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did you ever hear that at And he says no, And he says,
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well, I thought you were a big fan. And he says,
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well, maybe they weren't running it as often as they said they were.
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That's neither here nor there, So that's happening. Joe says on the website,
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I didn't see it. I have bad eyes, both eyes bad.
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I can't see something that's small. Man, he's starting to sound him like
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a scamer. So U Joe explains how this is negatively, negatively affected his
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life. One fired from his job. I would imagine, two girlfriend broke
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up with him, three no love life sense, and four parents still understand
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parents lost their house. I think, I don't know. I don't know
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if they were able to save it or not. Plus the removal, he
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can't afford it. It's a very expensive surgery and it's so thick you saw
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it that it might not even be able to fully remove that. It sounds
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like it's uh ten to only ten thousand dollars because that's the only yes.
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So that's not super expensive, it's he can't afford it, Okay, I
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can't afford it. Um. So Gino, you know, as he often
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does, brings in his own witness to give some sort of you know,
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third party. So he brings in a world renowned radio DJ, Ricky Smiley.
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I did google Ricky and he's a big deal. Apparently now he gave
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some insight on the relationship between DJ and listener. Everyone cheers for Ricky Smiley.
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The crowd is going nuts in Gino's courtroom, and even even my boy
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Joe bell is Rickie Ricky. He's a big fan of the DJ's now um
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Ricky tells you know, he's done some pranks in his day, including um
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telling everybody that they're going to drop one hundred thousand dollars out of a helicopter.
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It caused a block of backups in Atlanta, which is already a big
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deal. Turns out it was just one hundred thousand dollars worth of Monopoly money.
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Big haha, funny time classic classic. So what does this have to
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do? Gino says, what would would you be able to do something like
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this? And he says, if I wanted to do something like this,
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I would have had to get approval from the station. Yeah, and Gino
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says they did, they gave approval, and he says, well, they're
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also in court and everyone cheers for Rickie's final and Ricky's finally goes on its
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way. That's all Raggy gave and it is now time Dan for Judge Gino
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to rule. I can't wait to see it. Sounds like the crowd is
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really on the side of this dude who got the Jerrymander? What's his name?
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Joe Bell, Joe Bell, and I think he's just trying to scam.
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I mean, and second of all, nobody made you get it in
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bold prints. There was no size requirement, you did zero readsearch, you
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acted negligently, and there was a terms and conditions on the site that they
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said you could click if it is me, I am giving him ten thousand
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dollars to get it removed, and not a pennymore for any pain and suffering
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or for anyone's house. I think is it's a sob story he's making up
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to get rich quick. That's what I think. Now, Gino's gonna tell
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you have to be at least fifty one percent responsible. There is no way
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the radio station is that, But personally that's what I'm doing. I think
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Gino is gonna give him at least two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That's
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what I'm going with. So here's what Gina says. Gena says, when
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it comes to presenting stuff to the public, whether it be on radio or
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TV, if there's terms and conditions, you have to make that as clear
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as possible. Okay, the radio station did a couple of things here.
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One, they made the information about it being April Fools on a separate web
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page. It was the second web page. It wasn't on the first web
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page that they sent him to. It was on a completely separate website.
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And two, they did this without thinking about the fact that they are praying
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on desperate people. Desperate people aren't going to go find the second website.
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They're gonna go to the one website that you sent him to and they're gonna
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see that and be like, this is real. I'm desperate. I need
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the money. And because of that all the money he is giving him five
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hundred and ten thousand dollars. Silence and the radio manager are freaking out.
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They're saying, you don't deserve a penny. You don't deserve a penny.
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Joe is sobbing, crying, can't believe it, is yelling at them.
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He says, there's order in my court. There's order in my court,
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and there's like, what are you doing? Wow. Joe walks out of
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the courtroom and Silas and the radio manager just watch him in disbelief. Fade
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to black. Half million dollars. That's bunkers, that's bunkers. Yeah.
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The only thing in thinking about, like I still stand by what I said,
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But in thinking about it, did you say he called the radio station
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to ask He called the radio station to ask, is this read they sent
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him to and they said, for all the information about this contest, go
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to this website and the terms of conditions. The terms and conditions were not
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on the website. It was a link to a second web page. And
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that's what screwed them. My problem is is that's a better reasoning than he's
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desperate, because had they had those if you scrolled down to the bottom of
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the page, didn't see it initially, scroll down in very small print,
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this is an April fool's joke. Your gino is saying, that would have
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covered them. I I don't you know he's desperate. People aren't looking for
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that either. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's a um it's
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that's obviously hard to predict. I think his point was you did this and
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and knowing like two hundred forty thousand ards is a lot of money, there's
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someone that might be desperate enough to do it. He basically said he believes
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that they like that. They actually did think that somebody was doing We're gonna
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do it, man, that they made it they made it and increasingly difficult
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for someone who was desperate. It was quite the case. It was a
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lot of fun. I love Judge Gino. He's just so good. He's
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so good, and there's there is a lot of money. It's I could
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believe it. I I agree. I you know, I would have given
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him two hundred and sixty. I think it's the radius, like, that's
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an awful contest. Ye, give him the money that he deserves plus the
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ten to get it fixed. No pain, no pain and suffering, Like
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at the pain and suffering. My problem. He still chose to do it.
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There is there has to be some onus, on the person. Yeah,
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but that's the problem. Is is that what when you give him the
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two fifty for the contest, what you're saying is is the radio station is
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at fault for the fake contest. If you give him that two fifty,
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in my mind, you have to give him pain and suffering. No,
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because here's the thing. You do that if you get the two hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars. He's doing that knowing there are consequences. Yeah, there's
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consequences. Yes, you know what, I would have a tattoo on my
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forehead and it's going to have consequences, but it's worth it because of the
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two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Yeah, I agree, you're right.
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That's why we have a hot bench. Whoa, we have guys. We
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have one hard Merry Christmas. We hope you have a wonderful next couple of
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weeks. We'll be back in the new year with more guys. I think
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it's the same gabble, do your same gavel? Well, okay, fair,
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I don't know. I will surely mix it up. I don't know.
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I bet the same. You're the best and until next year, all
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