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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 23:27:26 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> 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.