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'IS IT TOO LATE NOW TO SAY SORRY?' 'YES.' · Yo Gavel Gavel! - Court TV Commentary

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This is a Bramble Jam podcast. This week on your gabble gabble. If
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your dog gets bitten by another dog in a dog park, can you sue
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them for vet bills? Judge Jerry Dodds head first into this ship zoo,
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Oh my gosh. And if you write a really long email, is it
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bad? Judge Faith thousands, real people, real cases, Thank Justice.
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This is your gavel gettle in the ropes, in the ropes, Wow in
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the ropes, Gavel gabble in the rope. I was in the road and
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off by the ship Zoo by the ship. Su I didn't you were like,
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did he just cuts? Are we live or we just record? All
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access members getting this get to see this show. And that's a bonus because
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people like to see us. It's a weird thing, that weird thing we're
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in robes were dancing around. You would have gotten to see Brand's reaction.
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Let me saying shit too love, big fun, big fun, big fun.
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So another reason to upgrade grade. Let me let me upgrade you,
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Dan, How are you? I'm great? How about you? But I'm
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so so good, so excited to be back in the chambers with you.
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The chambers of the Galmers the gall Well, that makes more sense. What
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is the chamber of commerce? I think it's just an area where trade happens.
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I'll give you two first rounds for a bunch of sour Patch kids.
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Yeah, deal, deal, What are you gonna do those first rounds?
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You're probably gonna flip them. I think I'm gonna flip them for the the
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Mambas Sour Mamas. Yeah. Do you think it'd be a good GM sports?
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I would enjoy it very much, I think, but I would have
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to really be just fully invested in that one. You really got to play
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in a long game. You really gotta Yeah, you gotta think ahead while
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also caring about the now going game short game, long game, both so
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both man, we got judge from Judge Faith. It's your first time on
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the Jerry, it's the first time. I could be wrong on that.
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Yes, yes, it is time and it's and he's canceled now, which
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I hate. But he canceled on the up and up like he can.
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As far as we know, Jerry hasn't done anything to get canceled. How
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is he not? I don't know. Yeah, that's as far as we
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know correct, But uh, yeah, I I feel like all of the
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Jerry Springer Show was one cancer canceled, canceled fast. The fact that he's
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not been canceled is unbelievable. I feel that way about Howard Stern. Yeah,
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dude. You know what else people go nuts about Howard Stern. I'm
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like, how's that guy not canceled? My favorite TV show of all time
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is Arrested Development. And if you watch that show now, I don't know
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how it gets like, well, that's a lot of shows I know,
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but it's more than I ever remembered. Yeah, it really is. There's
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a lot of stuff in community that I watch now and I'm like, huh,
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they did it. They were for it, dude, not as much
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as Arrested Developments. I mean, come on, they correct me if I'm
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right. They have a little Asian fellow that lives in Young Yeah, and
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and but that's not his actual name. They just that's the one word for
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hello. Yes, that lives in the attic. He lives all over the
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house. Yeah yeah, sometimes he's yeah, he's in the walls. Yeah
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on Young. I need to rewatch that show there. It makes me chuckle
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a good bit. It does. Turns out he's a spot Yeah, yeah,
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Oh gosh, yeah, good fun. What do you want to do?
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You want to go first? All right, let's get caught in the
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air. Heads. It's heads. Do you want to go first or second?
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Oh? Okay, go ahead. Let me introduce you to Richard Richard,
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who brings his puppy Jack into the courtroom with him. Jack walks in
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a musically not a ship, Sue, I just put that in there because
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it's a great dog. Pun looks like a mix of some sort maybe some
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sort of terrier mix. Okay, he can have some shit to it.
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I think he's a kid. He's a good boy. He's a good boy.
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He sits and lays down immediately right away. And Jerry's like, is
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that his temperament? And he said Jack is in it? Or Jack's owner,
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Richard is in a suit and is like, he's responding to the treat
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that's right here in my pocket, sitting waiting on it. Very very impressive.
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We learn later does everybody start clapping for Jack? They don't because it's
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COVID and it's like six people in the room with masks on. It's weird.
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We learned later that Jack works on movie sets. He actually gets a
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sag rate as a as a performer and works on different shows. Do you
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remember that time we did we're extras and we were sitting on the ship all
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day and we heard that guy bragging about all the shows. Is there a
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worse brag than that brag? That's the bottom of the barrel. So he
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claims that Maara's dog Maara attacked his dog at the dog park and is suing
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her for six hundred and fifteen dollars in bills. Now he's before Richard gets
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started. Jerry asked one question and then I'm pretty sure Jerry doesn't talk for
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the rest of the case, save for maybe one other question until oh wow,
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okay, he says, Now at this park, are you required to
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have your leash on the dog? And he says no, once you're in
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the park, your honor, you don't. And you get a picture of
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Jerry at that point doing this. Oh he doesn't like Brown shake his head
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like he doesn't like that, Like, I can't possibly rule for you because
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of this. He's never been to a dog park apparently, so, uh,
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that's kind of the whole Richard's dog park. That's how that works,
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Richard's Like I was out with Jack I decided to take him a dog park.
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Inside of the fence area is no leashes. But I was in that
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middle space, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, there's this first
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fenced in area, yes, which is like a transition area. Is to
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make sure the dogs don't escape. So you open the first fenced in area,
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you go in there, you stay in that little leminal space there,
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and then once that gate is closed, then you open the next just want
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to let your dog in so if any dog gets out. Nbdstory dog purgatory,
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doggatory, doggatory. And uh so I'm in there and I'm waiting,
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he said, I'm waiting for other dogs to get an owner's to get a
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hold of their dogs to make sure they don't run off. And Mara is
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just not even in the picture. And her dog, she she, her
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dog comes in there. While I'm in there, I still have a hold
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of Jack, I still have him leashed up, and Marara pop just pops
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up and goes, how did my dog open the door? My dog didn't
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open that door, Like this is I think you opened the door. I
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think you open the second gate. My dog can't open the gate by himself.
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That's ridiculous, and Richard continues as like, I tried to get the
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gate open for Jack to get in the main area. I'm still I'm still
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got him on the leash. Mara's dog jumps on Jack, bites him in
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the ear, his ears bleeding. Mar's like, there's no proof of blood.
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There's no proof that there's any blood. I just want to let you
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know that, Richard, I haven't even gotten off the gotten him off the
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leash yet. This is one of the most aggressive dogs I've ever ever seen.
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Uh. And Mar's like, but who opened the gate? That's my
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question, Judge Jerry. My dog didn't open the gate. All of a
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sudden, the gate's open. Two dogs are fighting, isn't there Mar's dog
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is there? Oh, that's the whole Mars dog is already in there.
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No, I'm sorry, in the in the in the court. No,
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no, no, that would have been something. Yeah, I'd have been
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here for that. But Mar's like, my dog's been fine. In fact,
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she had three dogs there. This is the biggest one. My dog's
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been fine the whole time. He's not bothering any other dog there. All
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of a sudden, your dog shows up, the gate gets open. He
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goes nuts. Maybe it's your dog. Richard's like, she said, the
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reason my dog got attacked is because he's not fixed, apparently. But then
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he says, I've got a pick of her at the park. He's got
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a pick of Marra sitting at the park with her mask on, her two
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little dogs and her third dog all around her. She's on her phone.
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Richard says, this is her nonchalantly two verse four, nonchalantly sitting on a
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bench with the cell phone. She's not watching her dogs. This is what
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she did. This is the dog that bit Jack. The dog looks like
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a really good boy. Uh. I secured Jack. I got Jack away.
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Jack is bleeding. She's still on her phone. I don't know whose
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dog it is. I approach her, I said, is this your dog?
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Yes? She never apologized. She just said your dog must not be
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neutered. That's why this happened. She refused to do anything. And then
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Richard says Jack deserves justice because all he wanted to do was to play like
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the other dogs, and he never got the chance. This guy sounds fun.
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He is something. He's wearing a bow tie? Is he does I
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don't know if he's wearing one, but it certainly feels like he was.
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I don't remember. She didn't even get her dog off of Jack. I
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had to do everything Mar's like. There was no screaming. Dogs scream when
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they're hurt. They make noises, yelp. Yeah, there was no noise.
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There was no noise. I don't know how the gate got opened.
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I didn't see any blood. There isn't any noise anywhere. I just what
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he's saying doesn't line up with how my dog interacts with any other dog.
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And there's just no proof of it. And Richard says, your honor,
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you can see my dog's temperament. He works for a living. He's used
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to being on set. He does not go after other dogs. This is
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who this dog is. And the dog's there, literally still down the whole
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time. Wow, it's very impressive. Mars says, My dogs were all
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playing peacefully. Your dog showed up. I don't know what you're talking about.
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We can't say whose fault this is. Maybe he was only defending himself.
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We don't know. So Richard says, I have proofd from the vet.
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This was a dog bite. He was on meds for two weeks.
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I got marssel from her I sent her the vet bills. Mars says,
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the picks I saw and even show much of a laceration. We see a
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pick, there's clearly like four stitches. It's definitely a big bite, big
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boy bite. And then she's like, I'm looking at the receipt here and
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this bill is excessive. It is there's no way this should cost six hundred
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and fifteen dollars like these, These prices are like double what I would see,
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like normally, it's just too much. Normally are people sending you a
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lot of vet bills? She has three dogs, she goes to the vet,
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but for stitches, she just said, they're too they're double. Well,
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I don't know. Richard says, I sent her the bill. I
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texted her to her she immediately stopped texting me back. Mars says, there's
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no proof my dog did any of this. I'm not paying. Jerry's now
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ready to rule. Boy, oh boy, I do struggle here. It's
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a tough one because it is a lot of he said, she said,
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and it is a lot of She uh, the dog bit. There's no
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proof. There is no proof that the dog bits. The only proof we
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have is the medical bills. I think it's gonna be tough to make her
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pay without some sort of proof that it was her dog that did it.
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But I think Jerry's gonna give him the money, so uh we do.
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She does admit that her dog was in an altercation with him. Jerry says,
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I can't help but think that there is some assumption of risk if you're
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going into an area where with other dogs that you don't know, and you
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don't know if they're friendly or not, and you're sending your dog into a
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space where these things happen, there is enough evidence to suggest that both of
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you are at risk for something of this happening. And so I'm gonna split
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it. I'm gonna cut it in half. You're gonna get half that money.
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Three oh seven fifty is yours. You're welcome. That is the end
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of the case. I don't hate the ruling. I don't know if there's
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any five most boring case I've watched in this program in the years of this
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program. I don't know if it's a bad ruling. I don't think there's
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any legal presidents for it. Presidents yeah, but good lord, But I
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like the ruling. I don't think he's incorrect. There, like you go
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to a dog park. You're accepting that risk, but also stuff happens and
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you should be willing to pay pony up a little bit, pony up a
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little bit. So I think it's not a bad ruining. It is not
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a bad ruling because Mara, I think probably would have paid the three hundred,
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because according to her, it was just too double. It's double,
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it's double and up, it's double and half double and half. You know,
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I want to introduce you to Chuck Man, Chuck May. Chuck Man
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is injured, called Chuck May Chuck Man. Ummm. She He is suing
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his ex girlfriend Sarah Sarah for uh ten nineteen one nineteen dollars for a vacation
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reimbursement. Oh boy, she left him. Sarah is Sarah's countersuing him for
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one thousand dollars for a combination of reimbursement and harassment. That breakdown is six
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hundred dollars for reimbursement for him, four hundred for harassment. She came up
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with that number. I'm sure even and even thousands sounds right. So they
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met on match dot com. There's multiple mentions of match dot com. I
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don't know if they were a sponsor or? What but shout out to match
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dot com. Show up. They go on, they're talking, they love
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talking to each other, they love you know, they're really enjoying each other.
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They start to date and he says that she was everything that he was
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looking for. Wow, beautiful, smart, fun man to be around.
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How does go south? Well? Uh? They dated for six months and
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he has no idea why they broke up. No idea what? Uh?
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Sarah. Sarah says that she was recently divorced. She was with her husband
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for over twenty years. Her husband cheated on her for seven years and ended
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up getting the old divorce there and you know who can blame her? So
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she gets a divorce and a year later she joins Match. So she lets
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a year go by and truck. I'm ready. I'm ready to get back
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into the pool the love. I don't know if that's enough time twenty years,
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seven of which you rein cheated on. Everybody is different. I would
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have a hard time in a real time. I would have a hard time
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just from a trust I gotta stay. I can't imagine dating again at all.
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Yeah, well yeah, they we don't need to get into that.
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I can't imagine. Yeah, me either. So uh, she says,
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I met Chuck and it was great at first. We started dating. We
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went to Vegas on a trip, but both of us got very sick,
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and so we agreed that we would do a do over. What happens in
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Vegas stays in Vegas, especially if it's sickness. Hopefully again mull again.
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So they decide, uh to go to can Kun, Mexico. We're not
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messing around, no, and so this trip to can't Kun is the trip
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in question Dan, They're wondering. So they start to vacation and it gets
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to be more expensive than Chuck Old Chuck was anticipating, so he asks Sarah
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if she could chip in three hundred dollars. She says, no problem,
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totally not if he was paying for everything everything. Yes, Wow, by
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the end of the trip he needed another three hundred dollars, so six hundred
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dollars total. Chuck says, yes, that is what happened. About a
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week after Mexico, she breaks up with him. She says that she got
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to see who he really was on the trip. Big anger issue never stops
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talking, which I can you know see with this guy. He freaked out
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that I made a friend and left him for fifteen minutes. I come back
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in the room. He's crying, crying that I was gone for fifteen minutes.
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Chuck says, this is nonsense. She was jealous that I was at
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dinner. When we were at dinner, I started to talk up with some
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gals from Canada. So there you go, she says, you know,
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if you say the sentence I started to talk up with some gals from Canada,
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No one is jealous of you, that's right. Uh so she you
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know, She's like, no whatever, no, no, no. So
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after she breaks up, he asks for more of the money. He asked
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for one thy nineteen dollars for her half of the trip, so that would
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have been less than six hundred less. The six six sixteen nineteen would have
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been half of the trip, So thirty two thirty eight would have been the
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whole trip. Got wow, wow, show off. That would have taken
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me years. Go dude, ten nineteen That nineteen is a trigger. Tis
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thirty eight seventy six so six times. So after the trip, Sarah says
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that shuck fifty two. I was right the first time. Quid thank god?
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What hey for someone to think that you're in current After trip, Sarah
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says that Chuck starts to harass her every day, sending emails and texts just
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kind of like wanting the money, wanting to get back together, blah blah
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blah. These emails are crazy long. She brings a few of them.
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One of them is five pages long, single space, Oh my gosh,
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subject line my nightmare that is over, And Chuck is like, that's right,
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I'm gonna sell an ebook. Chuck's so. Judge Faith says, I
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see here that two months after you break up, you're still texting, You're
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still emailing every day. Two months in you send a text saying that you
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can't stop thinking about her and that every song makes you think of her,
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such as is it too late now to say sorry? To what? Sarah
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says, Yes it is. Judge Faith then goes on a little bit of
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a random says, you got a man up a little bit here, Chuck,
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Uh, you had good times? Move on? You think daily texts
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are going to work? And then she does whole lesson on break how to
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break up with somebody. When someone breaks up with you, they go the
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other way, and your instinct is to follow them in that direction. But
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what you should do is go the opposite direction. You want her to start
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wondering, why doesn't he text me? Why hasn't he called me? Play
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a little hard to get Chuckster, Chuckster, you can go your own way,
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So, Sarah says, it's not just that. It's not just a
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constant. There's a restraining order. By the way, Wow, she got
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a restraining order on him. Um, and Chuck's like, yes, that
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that that didn't happen. Faith. It's like, we didn't have to we
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didn't have to come to that, Chuck. She keeps saying his name,
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Chuck, which I really appreciate. Uh. Sarah says, it's not just
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that. Though while we were dating, he would say things like, if
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you ever leave me, I'll cut you up into a bunch of little pieces.
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What And Chuck says I may have joked here or there, and Faith
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cuts him office says there is no joke there, Chuck. Judge Faith asked
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Sarah if he stopped reaching out to her once the restraining order was put in
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place, and surprisingly to everybody, Chuck did stop reach out. Wow.
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And Judge Faith is ready for the verdict and to remind you, he is
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suing for oneenty nineteen dollars for her half of the trip, and she is
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suing for one thousand dollars six hundred dollars. She wants her six hundred dollars
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back, plus four hundred dollars for the five page emails. So an earlier,
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younger version of me hosting this show would have messed this up. I
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think there's a very distinct right answer here. I have learned that you can't
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ask for money for gifts or return that unless it is an engagement ring.
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That's the law. So if Faith doesn't go that way, then that's wrong.
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He cannot get anything back for buying her a trip. That's not how
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that works. She also cannot get anything back for lending him money that for
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the trip. That is not how the law works. She should have asked
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for way more for harassment because it would have been granted to her, because
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there are there is significant grounds for harassment here. She's gonna get the four
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hundred for harassment. He's getting nothing. She's getting a them for the trip
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four hundred dollars only in old you're close, you're what Faith? No,
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Well, let me get you, let me get you there. She's gonna
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give him more. Uh, So, she says to Chuckster, you can't
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just say, uh, this trip was only for while we were dating.
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After the fact, if they break up, you can't be like, I
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want more money. Now, That's not how those stings work. So no
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money for you. Your case is dismissed. Goes over to Sarah and uh,
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same thing. You paid the six hundred dollars while you're on the trip.
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You can't get that money back. Now. She's not going to give
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her any money for harassment because she followed the law. She got a restraining
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order for the harassment, and he followed the restraining order. If you would
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have continued to harass her after the restraining order, she would have gotten the
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four hundred dollars or whatever she asked for. But because he followed the law
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cost her money. That's exactly right, man. You have to file the
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restraining order and then if he follows the restraining order, no harassment. Interesting.
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So there you got to learn something new. Judge Faith, you're back
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in my good grace. There you go, there you go, we did
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everybody. Congratulations, What a great day, gable, what a great gavel.
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Indeed, always a good day when you get a good day when you
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get together. We did. Everybody Until next time, All Rise Yo.
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