Top 10 Strangest People to Appear on Judge Judy
#10: Petty Ex-Friend Sues for Broken Toilet
Sometimes things break. It’s a natural part of life, and something that everyone has to deal with. In this case, however, the plaintiff, Lisa, decided she’d rather her ex-friend, Barbara, deal with it. After realizing Barbara broke her toilet by sitting on it, Lisa sued for damages. Unsurprisingly, Judge Judy was quick to call out the ridiculousness of the case and asked why Lisa thought the defendant should be responsible for her toilet. She didn’t have a good answer, and Judge Judy quickly dismissed the case as being stupid, telling the woman to “grow up” before determining the case closed.
#9: Woman Tries to Give Her Mom Her Friend’s Baby
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Sometimes a situation has no easy solution, but the response to frustrating circumstances should never be violence - especially towards the people you're asking for help! In this case, a mother sued her twenty year old daughter for damages after she went on a bizarre rampage following her mother’s refusal to take her friend’s child. The friend was unable to support the baby, but instead of asking her mother to adopt the child legally, this woman thought it best to pawn the child off to her “like a kitten.” After hearing the story, Judge Judy was clearly perplexed by the audacity of the young woman to ask such a thing of her mother and, by extension, her stepfather.
#8: Man Accuses Woman of Faking Death
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It’s easy to blame a store or salesperson when something is wrong with an item days after you’ve purchased it. In this case, however, the plaintiff wasn’t complaining about broken furniture, but a sickly puppy! Steve Lightner had purchased the puppy from someone in a Walgreens parking lot on a Saturday and realized that it was sick the following Monday. After being told it was underweight, he sued the woman he bought it from, insisting that she was at fault for selling him a sickly dog. He even went so far as to accuse the woman of faking her death, and the deaths of her children - a claim for which he seemed to have very little evidence.
#7: Car Salesman Sells One Car to Two People
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Car salesmen are sometimes known for using persuasive double talk to convince you to buy a vehicle, but this salesman skipped the pitch and went right to a full on scam. Salesman Robert Martin promised two separate people a car that he valued at $1500, and collected money from them both, before being taken to court by the plaintiff. As Judge Judy points out, he was effectively paid twice for the same car - and a car that was only valued to be worth $825 at that! Somehow, even after this revelation, the defendant still doesn’t understand what he’s done wrong and pushes for a $5000 countersuit. Even more baffling: his nephew, who was promised the car alongside the plaintiff, actually agrees with him!
#6: “Defective” Pug Purchaser
This woman is the real “Karen” of dog owners. Having never owned her own dog, Rachel purchased a pug from a breeder. She and her son were happy with him, and they even wanted a second dog. So far so good! …That is, until her vet told her that the dog had to be neutered - which she appeared to think meant the pug was defective. Having wanted to breed the dog, she felt cheated, and demanded her money back. Even stranger, she insisted she should get the money and the dog. She even went so far as to call the attorney general! Judge Judy scoffed at the case, pointing out that a first-time dog owner had no business breeding a dog anyway.
#5: Pot Belly Pig vs. Show Dog
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To own a pet is to be responsible for its actions. This is a lesson the defendant, Lisa, learned the hard way when her pot-bellied pig escaped her backyard and bit the prized show dog of the plaintiff, Deborah. Interestingly though, this is a case where both plaintiff and defendant acted pretty strangely. Although most of the blame can be laid on Lisa and her unconventional pet, it’s hard to overlook the fact that Deborah videoed her prized pooch sniffing at the unfamiliar animal for an extended period of time. She only reacted and pulled the Great Dane away when the dog was bitten by the pig. Seems like both could be better pet owners to their “beloved” animals.
#4: Mustard Vandalizer
It’s not uncommon for “Judge Judy '' cases to revolve around the damaging of personal property. What makes this case so unusual is that the defendants decided to vandalize a man’s car with mustard. Prior to the condiment crime, Billy Dye had gotten a restraining order against his cousin, and allegedly quit the job they worked at together following her promotion. Unfortunately, he still lived in the area, and had to drive past his former workplace on the way to his new job. He said this is when she, and two friends, attacked - first with mustard, and then with rocks. To make matters worse, the trio snickered throughout the entire trial, and frequently interrupted both Judge Judy and the plaintiff.
#3: Johnny Rotten
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Although “Judge Judy” often deals with cases between everyday people, occasionally a familiar face will appear on her show. One such case was when John Lydon, better known as “Johnny Rotten,” appeared on the show as a defendant against a drummer named Robert Williams. You would think that charges of assault, battery, and neglected payments would cause the singer to be on his best behavior for Judge Judy. True to his bad boy reputation, however, the Sex Pistols frontman consistently acted out in front of the famous judge, antagonizing and interrupting her as she attempted to hear both sides of the case. Surprisingly, she ended up ruling in his favor regardless, as the drummer lacked adequate evidence to support his claims.
#2: eBay Scammer
On eBay, most items are used, meaning what you see is what you get, but this seller took that sentiment a little too literally. When someone won two cell phones by bidding on the items in Kelli Filkins’ online shop, she instead sent two photographs of the phones that had been shown online. Even as Judge Judy insulted the woman’s moral compass and called her an idiot, Kelli refused to back down. Her stance was that the listing was, and always had been, for the photographs, and that the plaintiff suing her received what they had paid $467 for. She even gave a bad review on the website when they complained!
#1: Pregnant Woman Busts Friend’s Windshield
Sometimes it’s not just one person who might seem strange, but an entire case. This episode saw two former roommates at odds when one of them moved out of their shared home. Realizing she still had belongings there, Rosalyn began “blowing up” her roommate, Latona’s, phone and social media (a term Judge Judy was unfamiliar with) before giving up and enlisting the help of a friend to break in. The pair successfully broke in - but got much more than they bargained for. The then-pregnant Latona allegedly emerged from the home naked, holding a knife and a stick and screaming “I’m gonna kill you!” before smashing the plaintiff’s windshield. Certainly a peculiar way to come at a burglar, but Judge Judy ruled in her favor anyway, deciding the break-in justified the unconventional defense.
