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Rental Home Owner Sues 83-Year-Old Woman over Broken Mirror - YouTube
Channel: Judge Judy
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an interesting case.
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You can sit down, please.
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Mr. Clark, you own a condo that
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you rent out in Florida.
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>> Yes.
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>> Judge Judy: And Mr. Lewis
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rented that condo for how many
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days and when?
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>> Six days from July 2 through
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the 8th, I believe it was.
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>> Judge Judy: And who was
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going?
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>> Myself; my mother, Joyce; and
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my daughter, Kylie.
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>> Judge Judy: How many bedrooms
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does the condo have?
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>> Two bedrooms.
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>> Judge Judy: Had you seen it
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online?
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>> I'd seen several of them
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online.
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I stay there every year.
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I had not seen this one online.
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>> Judge Judy: This is the
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story.
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Mr. Lewis's mother was sharing
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one of the bedrooms with his
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daughter.
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And sometime during the night,
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she wanted to increase the fan.
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Either she didn't see or
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there was not a mechanism on the
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wall to increase the speed
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of the fan.
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Is her last name Lewis?
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>> Yes.
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>> Judge Judy: So Mrs. Lewis
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stood up on the bed in order to
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reach the fan and pull the cord
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to see if that would work.
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And she fell, and she broke a
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wall of mirrors in the bedroom.
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You want her to pay for the
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wall -- not her, but Mr. Lewis,
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who is the responsible party
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because he rented the condo --
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for the damage that his mother
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did during that fall.
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It's an easy case.
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Mr. Lewis says it's your fault.
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He's counterclaiming for $3,000
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for pain and suffering because
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his mother fell trying to turn
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on the fan.
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That's actually ridiculous.
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>> Okay.
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>> Judge Judy: Even your mother
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knows it's ridiculous,
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if she was thinking.
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I would never
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stand on a bed to turn on a fan.
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You're an intelligent woman,
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right?
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And if you do and if you fall,
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then it's your fault.
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You can't blame somebody else.
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You have a different theory?
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>> I do.
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She had no other option except
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to get on the bed to turn on the
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fan, Your Honor.
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>> Judge Judy: Yeah, she does.
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She comes in to you and say,
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"You know what?"
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What's your first name?
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>> Michael.
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>> "Michael, I want to turn
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the fan on."
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Was there air conditioning
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in the bedroom?
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>> Yes.
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>> Judge Judy: "Even though
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there's air conditioning, I like
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the fan going around.
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I like the air circulated.
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Michael, but I like the fan."
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And how old is your mom?
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>> She's 83.
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>> Judge Judy: And you're
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a lot younger.
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"So would you see if you could
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turn the fan on?"
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I'm younger than your mom,
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and I wouldn't stand on a bed.
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Because you say she stood on the
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bed, and the mattress was so old
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it was sagging, and that caused
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her to lose her balance.
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That's her fault.
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And if it's her fault and if
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property was broken as a result
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of that, then it's your
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responsibility to fix it.
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Common sense.es of the wall, pl,
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and then...
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>> Yes, ma'am.
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This is before.
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This is the mirror.
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And then this is the after.
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>> Judge Judy: Just for my own
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information, not that it's
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particularly relevant, but I
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would just like to know, is
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there a switch to turn this fan
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on, on a wall?
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>> No, ma'am, it's just
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on the fan.
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>> Judge Judy: Okay.
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I would get rid of that.
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It doesn't look smart.
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I mean, you can put a ladder up
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there to put it on if you like.
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>> Actually, if Michael had went
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in and adjusted it, he could
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have reached it
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with his height.
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I can reach it.
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It's just, I guess, she was so
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small and all that.
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It was hard for her to --
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>> Judge Judy: So you
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can reach it?
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>> Oh, yes, ma'am.
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>> Judge Judy: By the way,
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Mr. Lewis --
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>> Yes.
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>> Judge Judy: I'm sure that at
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some point, you then went in to
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see if you could, in fact,
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pull the string.
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>> I never did go in to see if I
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could actually reach that.
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No, I did not, Your Honor.
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>> Judge Judy: Why?
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>> It's the last thing
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on my mind.
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I went in.
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My mother was laying
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on the ground.
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I just wanted to get her up
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off the ground.
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>> Judge Judy: She was okay.
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She wasn't hospitalized.
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>> She did not go to the
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hospital.
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>> Judge Judy: So she was lucky,
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very lucky.
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>> Yes.
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>> Yes.
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>> Judge Judy: Because as a
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very famous gerontologist once
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said, "If you want to live to be
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a nice, ripe old age, I only
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have two words for you --
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don't fall."
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[ Laughter ]
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How much is the mirror to fix?
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>> $540.
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>> Judge Judy: Judgment for the
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plaintiff in the amount of $540.
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We're finished. Thank you.
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>> Byrd: Parties are excus
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