Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 23:27:26 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:27:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0e7c23ba7de356d770348dfcaa1d305"; logging-data="3984279"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+hjpyjNaPfcCdUHDkdlgOYv2GD93hWP7Y=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:uqmbL7OmUecRU2UdQ/OJsF1rpZI= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2262 BTR1701 wrote: >This case is amazing at all levels. >https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0LMEL6_b15o >First, we have a guy suing his neighbor because she password-protected her >wi-fi signal, which he had been leeching off for free, claiming he's >entitled to it because the wi-fi waves are in the air which belongs to >everyone. It's radio. There's no privacy. About time she put a passcode on there. >Then we have a judge who, in rightly ruling against the guy, also decides >to issue a restraining order against him from contacting his neighbor >and/or harassing her and warns him that if he violates the order, he (the >judge) will issue a warrant and have the police pick him up and bring him >back to court for further proceedings. >Except this is a TV judge. Then why did they carry out the death warrant he issued on the previous episode? >He's not a real judge and this is not a real >courtroom. It's a TV set. The only power this judge has is to decide the >monetary split the two parties agreed to in order to appear on the show. He >can't issue retraining orders and he sure as hell can't issue warrants and >have the police arrest anyone. >Apparently he never actually was a judge in his prior life, either. His >only previous claim to fame was as an actor playing a police captain in a >YouTube show called SOUL SNACK.