OT - HS player sues coach on Judge Judy!
 

Was watching a Judge Judy episode this afternoon. A HS traveling team player was suing his coach for stealing his ipod! The coach was counter suing the kid and his mom for harassment for disrupting a team practice. I didn't get to see the very end but here's the story.

The coach has a traveling neighborhood team in Bakersfield, CA. They were going to a tournament in Vegas during the summer. The coach drove the players there in a van. The kid couldn't find his ipod and thought one of the other players stole it. He felt that was justification for him to steal $20 out of the wallet of another player. The other player knew this happened and told the coach, who gave that player $20 out of his own pocket. He then told the first player that he was sure the ipod was still in the van and that he was going to look for it. If he found it, he would keep it since he reasoned he "bought" it for the $20 he gave to the other player. The coach searched the van and found it. He told the kid he was going to keep it.

When they got back to CA, the coach went to the kid's father (who was a friend of his) and offered to return the ipod. The father declined to accept it because he suspected his son stole it in the first place and he didn't want anything to do with it. The kid, his custodial mother and her boyfriend then went to a practice (the kid had quit the team after all this) and demanded the return of the ipod. The coach said he had already sold it on ebay.

The next step was court. The coach's defense was that he did try to return it to the boy's father but he refused it, so that meant the coach could keep it (and sell it, if he wanted). As you might imagine, Judge Judy ripped into the kid and his mother because the kid stole the $20 in the first place. As I said, that's about all I saw of it, but it seemed like she was going to dismiss both cases.

The coach came across as quite sympathetic since he runs this program for "at-risk" kids and raises money for it through community events such as car washes. He also puts some cash of his own into the program.

This world would be a better place if half the people that showed up on Judge Judy knew how to use that grey thing inside their skulls.

That show is still on?

You betcha. And I'm glad it is. Judge Judy is the coolest chick on television. When she says, "Liar, liar, pants on fire", I picture her reffing with me. Now that would be really cool. Can you imagine her dealing with coaches!

And I bet none of the games we work together would go into OT. ;)

Most would be reduced to 'one on one' as a poster in another thread put it.

Do you know what I like about Judge Judy?

Nothing.

Figures! ;)

This forum would be a better place if one of the people who watched Judge Judy would stop ...

aw forget it. It's Christmas.

I watch Judge Judy regularly. I saw that episode a while ago.

I like Judy because she openly calls people out for being stupid and for those stupid people expecting others to be just as stupid. Good teaching tool for my son. :D

The world would be better if television judges could give the death penalty.

Sometimes I wish C-SPAN had a television judge.

Being forced to watch that show would be the equivalent.

Apparently, you're in the minority. Not only are her ratings huge, she's one of the highest paid people on television.

I also really like Judge Joe Brown. The guy tells it like it is. I'm not a big fan of Judge Marilyn on People's Court, but recently they had on a guy (who I know and have worked games with) from the Portland area who is a referee and he was being sued by another ref.

Marilyn Millian is the epitome' of a Hot Mom.

How about when Judge Judy's husband was on TV?