Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant

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.