Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 18:42:58 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:42:59 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1967 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c46f5764f02035$75608$3265$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2345 On 4/8/2024 6:14 PM, 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. > > 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. 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. This sounds like standard TV courtroom practice. The capital (as it were) penalty is the cancelled -- albeit substantial -- remuneration.