This girl looks like she's 12, not 20. It breaks my heart. And yet, I want to break her face.

I am sad to say, I actually watched this yesterday (or should I say, my brothers were watching and I happened to be in the room). Anyway, I was more or less agreeing with J.J., except her "zero tolerance" for girls who get drunk and don't remember things leaves a pretty bad precedent for rape cases, no?

Judge Judy's halfway to the Batman eyes I used to make as a kid!
But agreed - girl is a douche for driving drunk. She doesn't seem even the least bit fazed by it, does she realize that's a horrible thing to do?

I should think of suing the hippie whose tool shed I stumbled into after a frat party when I was wasted. I woke up and he was doing some voodoo qi dance to rid my aura of toxins. Scarred me for life. Judge Judy would be lenient in that case, no? Wait, there would be a countersuit because I puked on his macramé hammock. Nevermind.

I want to strangle anyone that talks the way that plantiff does. with the little whine at the end of every word. so i guess i want to strangle about 88% of highschool girls.

@LaComtesse: Yeah, I thought that too. But otherwise I agreed.

@FourInchHeels: word. I had a roommate like that. When she got a DUI she acted like it was no big deal. I was stunned. I don't get people who drive drunk.

@LaComtesse: Yeah I accidentally watched it yesterday too. Although I live alone. And by accidental I mean I put it on and sat on the couch enthralled with how stupid this girl is to think Judge Judy would be sympathetic. Luckily the country has been reduced to trying rape cases on daytime judge shows, so I think JJ is allowed to have a zero tollerance policy.

pls don't touch your eyebrows for just a month or so

@FourInchHeels: I have a funny DUI story, er kind of.
At college graduation rehearsal the head of campus security made a speach about how showing up for the ceremony drunk would result in being dragged off to jail, and "You will stay in jail all night. They serve Rice Krispies for breakfast, so I hope you like those."
The girl sitting next to me scoffs and says "Whatever I've been to jail for DUI TWICE and all I got was TOAST!"
I was amazed that she was a)graduating and b)still alive after two DUI's.

@blondegrlz: yeah, not too worried about that, but I worry whenever someone holds it as a personal policy... regardless as to whether or not s/he is a judge. For example, my grandmother saying "It's just not rape once you get to a certain point. Men can't control themselves. You go up to that room with them you can't say no after that!"

... siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

@blondegrlz: @BeAgrestic: Oh wow. Both of those stories are just precious.

My husband is a freelance writer for an educational video company. He creates teacher packets that go along with the videos. He doesn't drink and had to do one about driving under the influence. So has asked me what excuses people use. So I ticked off a ton that I had personally heard "I've driven worse than this" "I'm not drunk, you're drunk" "I'm only driving 10 minutes" "I drive better when I'm drunk", etc. He was stunned... I think I'm numb to it...

@BeAgrestic: The problem is that they don't seem to die off. There must be some strange mechanism in natural selection that keeps these people alive, perhaps to be a cautionary tale for the rest of us.

@LaComtesse: Well that is obviously faulty logic. You're right though, about the precendent. I would like to believe in that case Judge Judy would tell the man "Not saying NO is different that saying YES! Do you have a mother? Would your mother be proud!? NO!!!"

@blondegrlz: I hate to say it, but you can kind of lump Judge Judy in with Jerry Springer. It's just putting stupid people on display for people's amusement.

I've been on a JJ kick all day, I happened across a youtuber who has uploaded a massive amount of JJ episodes that were only broadcast in the UK. Here's the person's page if'n anyone else was interested.
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I was watching a clip today and JJ asked, "Where is the VCR?" and the answer was "She told me the VCR was out of town." Makes sense, my VCR is always going out of town too.

@NefariousNewt: Jerry Springer has just turned into a freak show. Is he even on anymore? I always wondered why these idiots would put their stupid court cases out there, until I realized the court paid them to appear. I know it's doubtful that any of these girls went home and said "You know, JJ is right! I'm never drinking again!" but maybe someone recognizes a part of themselves and rethinks that 14th beer.

@LaComtesse:Yeah, don't even get me started on the 3 am phone call to come bail her out. I let she sleep it off in the drunk tank. I think her legal bills were hefty, but she's still driving.
@NefariousNewt: I have no tolerance or drunk drivers. Even when I was too poor to go to the bar I ALWAYS made sure I had a safe ride home.

The apathy certain members of generation have towards drunk driving blows my mind.

@BeAgrestic: her

Judge Judy is my hero. I like when the girl started crying when things were going badly...the typical move of silly girls trying to manipulate. NOT going to work on my Judy! What I wouldn't give to see Judge Judy in front of Lindsay "not my pants" Lohan.

@BeAgrestic: Not at all surprising, seeing as how every celebrity convicted of driving under the influence gets out of jail in 5 minutes. They have to realize they are setting a precedent for what is acceptable behaviour.

@BeAgrestic: wow. I can't type when I get riled up. *my generation

@Bridesmaid4: yeah I agree completely. Drunk Driving seems to be the new underage drinking citation. This is very bad.

I Have strong views on this because I stopped drinking a few months ago. I don't know that I had a problem with it, but I was heading down a path that I did not want to go.
I'll step off my soapbox now haha.

@BeAgrestic: Dude, that is one soapbox no one needs to get off of. I have a good friend who is a drunk driving vigilante, and he'd report even his own MOTHER if he saw her get behind the wheel drunk. I think until someone really high profile actually dies from drunk driving kids won't think of it as a big deal.
Now get off my lawn.

@blondegrlz: Well, if it saves even one person. Still, you have to wonder.

@BeAgrestic: There is every reason for your outrage!! Especially given the barely-wrist-slaps that starlets are getting, why isn't this getting more honest attention? Why aren't starlets that get caught being forced to do PSA's saying "Yeah, this is a serious business and you will do time for this somehow"? Ridiculous.

@BeAgrestic: It's that feeling of invincibility. You drink, you drive, you make it home, and it reinforces the notion that you can handle it, that you are above it all. Really, the only true convincer is when someone gets into an accident or causes one, especially one with fatality. When you're standing before a judge in criminal court and they tell you that you're going to spend part of your life in jail, that tends to erase the invincibility.

@bellethellama: Lane Garrison, that dude from prison break who killed that teenager last year, has done a few PSA's, but I have yet to see a youn starlet do one. Lindsay Lohan did one waaaay back in the day and we know how that all played out.
@blondegrlz: I don't want to seem self-righteous about not drinking. I don't judge people who do, it's just something I choose not to do.

Horrible drunk driving story:
Ex-BFF's boyfriend (the reason she is EX BFF is she stayed with him) killed 2 girls while driving drunk. He failed to share this with BFF until he was arrested, meanwhile, I had witnessed him arriving at our house driving drunk several times AFTER the accident. Sigh...

@NefariousNewt: Stop making me feel guilty for watching Judge Judy!

@BeAgrestic: I didn't get a self-righteous vibe from you at all and I'm sitting here sipping my second gin & tonic of the night. Although the only place I'm going is to bed, so no DUI's here. I don't abstain but I don't drink like in my college days. Yah for a family history of alcoholism.

@denises_24: that's awful. A friend of a friend got in a drunk driving accident (she was the passenger) and had to get 90 stitches in her face. Yeah, that is fucked up!

@blondegrlz: We should start a campaign for JJ to ream out Brit and Lilo. That would make for an excellent sweeps episode!

@blondegrlz: Heaven forbid -- I don't want you to feel guilty. On the contrary -- at least Judge Judy is not Rock of Love.

@NefariousNewt: Damn straight, I don't watch that trash. Now I'm going to go watch that episode of American Idol I just Tivo'd. D'oh.

@blondegrlz:

If not for that pesky thing called a day job, I would be all over Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, Jude Joe Brown, Judge Larry Joe, that judge that looks like Herman Munster, and every other judge show out there (I usually make it home in time for 1/2 of People's Court). I'm a trash TV junkie and I have no shame.

@SikeChick19:
That would be "Judge" Joe Brown, not Jude. And how could I forget Moral Court.

@blondegrlz: ^Drunk Driving Vigilante^

I think I've called the cops with license plates late at night 3 times this month.

@NefariousNewt: Yes. I think it's also one of those it-won't-happen-to-me things.

I am the dumbass who has gotten into cars with people driving under the influence (booze, drugs). It is extremely stupid. Our car was rear-ended once by some people who were raging drunk (our driver had sobered up quite a bit) - no serious injuries but of course, the douches didn't pay for my medical exam.
It's a totally irresponsible and selfish thing to do because it often screws people who are acting responsibly.
See: that Hogan kid.
Our generation often disappoints.
Like people who continue to have unprotected sex w/ multiple partners, then contract and spread STDs. No excuse in a time of AIDS.
Zero tolerance for that shit.

@LaComtesse: Hmm, I think Jude's zero tolerance for violence/assault/aggression towards women would override her zero tolerance for drunks.
Mostly, I think she has zero tolerance for stupid people.
There's that other JJ clip featured on Jez where she severiously schools the dude that grabbed his babymomma.

Dear Jezebel,
I would like to politely request a daily Judge Judy recap (hey, we're nearly there now). I also nominate her for patron sainthood.

Many thanks and much love,
QC

@QueenCanada: @SlutMachine: I DVR this everyday so I have something ridiculous to come home to. If need be, I have no issues providing these recaps when Slut Machine becomes disenchanted.

Judy is getting a bit to morality police recently though, but today its a dad suing his daughter, so that should be fun!

I DVR this show everyday and watch them marathon style on the weekends, usally with a beer (or 6 or 7)...I pretend Judge Judy would approve.

I Tivo JJ everyday. Sometimes I can't wait until the weekend to watch them. They're like TV crack to me. The more loutish the people, the crankier the JJ, the better I like it.

Thanks to AlphaFemale for the mother lode of JJ on YouTube. I am off to feast on previously unseen episodes....