01x32 - Storage Container Wars

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[Judge Judy]
That looks like a whole bunch of junk.

You couldn't get your junk
off the property and therefore

you're suing her for $10,000, right?

Yeah, yeah, you got it.

You're, you're right on point.

- [laughing] You're ridiculous, sir.
- It's your courtroom.

That's the first thing
you got right today.

[announcer]
This is Judy Justice.

[♪ theme music playing]

[announcer] Gladis Gutierrez
is suing storage buyer Cesar Galvez

for the cost of shipping containers.

[Kevin] Court come to order.

[Judge Judy] Be seated, please.

[Kevin] Hello, Judge.

Case 1065, Gutierrez versus Galvez.

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

I am so confused about this case
and that's not easy.

You buy storage containers?

I do storage auctions.

So sometimes containers come up
with merchandise in them,

so then I could get it free.

[Judge Judy] Okay. Let's go back.

You say that as if I really understand it.

I apologize.

[Judge Judy]
I really don't totally understand it.

I've seen Storage Wars
on television once or twice.

Correct. So the...

[Judge Judy] Where you go
and you bid on something

- and you don't know what's inside.
- [Cesar] Correct.

And then you open it up
like a cr*cker Jack box.

- Correct.
- You know what cr*cker Jacks are?

- [Cesar] Yes, ma'am.
- Ah, you're older than you look.

- [Cesar] Thank you.
- Do they still have cr*cker Jacks?

- I think they do.
- Yes.

- They do. I don't know.
- Yes.

- They do.
- Mm-hmm.

Do they still have little prizes inside?

- Stickers.
- [Judge Judy] Stickers.

Used to have little toys and stuff
inside.

Anyway, so Storage Wars is like

a grown-up version of a cr*cker Jack box.

Yeah, you open it up,
and you pay some money.

- Now, you buy those at auction?
- Correct.

When you buy them at auction,

- do you already know what's inside?
- No.

[Judge Judy] So you go to a big place
where people haven't paid their bills.

- So they...
- Correct.

Or sometimes it's homes of family members

- [Cesar] that passed away and the family
doesn't want anything.

So they, they auction the stuff off.

But had they gone inside to look first?

The family has but we haven't.

So the family knows
whether you're buying junk,

or whether you're buying dead bodies,

or whether there's
something valuable in there?

Correct.

But sometimes families
don't take the time to go in there.

[Cesar] They just wanna sell...
they wanna sell the land.

They wanna sell the land.

And these storage containers
are on the land?

Correct.

[Judge Judy]
How do you know the plaintiff?

[Cesar] I've met her a while back.

Uh, I needed somebody to move a container
for me that I had sold to somebody...

[Judge Judy] To move a container?

Yeah, that I had sold to somebody
that the person that purchased

a container for me needed
a transport company

to move the container
and that's how I met her.

You have a transport company?

Yeah, I do.

I...I move shipping containers
and that's how I met him.

[Judge Judy]
What's the name of your company?

D&J's Transport.

[Judge Judy]
What kind of trucks do you have?

Sixty-foot long Dually.

[Judge Judy]
And who drives it for you?

- I do.
- Personally?

Personally and I...
I work together as a team

with... with my worker.

How many workers do you have?

Uh, not... in my responsibility just me.

- Do you hire people to help you?
- Yes.

[Judge Judy] You bought
some containers and an RV

- or two RVs?
- [Cesar] Correct.

But the auction that I was at,

there was people
that bought the containers.

I didn't buy the containers,
they bought the containers.

And they were taking the stuff
that was inside the containers

and they wanted to sell the containers

because it was their responsibility
to get rid of them.

And since I know Gladis...

[Judge Judy] Okay.

- So you didn't buy the containers?
- No.

[Judge Judy] Mr. A bought the containers.

Mr. A didn't want the containers,
just what was inside the containers?

- Correct.
- [Judge Judy] So Mr. A...

was supposed to get
all the stuff out of the containers?

He was actually supposed
to take the container with him too.

But he asked me if I knew
someone that wanted to buy 'em

since he knows that I communicate
with a lot of people.

On whose land were these containers?

The person passed away from that property
and the niece of that man

hired American Auctioneers
to do the auction of everything

that was on the property,
so that they can clear the property.

That's how the containers
went up for sale.

So buyers come
and they all beat each other up

and whoever gets the highest bid takes it.

So you didn't buy anything?

- [Cesar] No, I did buy something.
- What did you buy?

I bought everything
that was outside the containers.

So pretty much you had six containers
on the property,

you had motorhomes,
you had the contents inside the home.

I bought everything
that was outside in the yard.

There was air compressor,
there was a gold digging machine,

there was a carburetor, generators,

just a bunch of things
just all over the place.

So you bought all of this...

[Cesar] For one price.

How much did you spend
for all of that stuff?

- Five hundred dollars.
- And you bought it as one lot?

Correct.

[Judge Judy] Somebody else was there
and bought these six containers?

[Cesar] One person bought four containers

and another person bought two containers.

[Judge Judy] But they weren't
interested in the containers.

- How big...
- [Cesar] They couldn't move 'em.

- ...give me an idea...hmm?
- They couldn't move 'em.

[Judge Judy] They couldn't move them why?

They're just so big and they don't have

the transportation mode
or where to put them.

So they wanted to just go through
the inside of the containers?

Well, if you wanted the stuff
in the container,

you had to buy the container.

I understand that. But they wanted
to just go through the containers...

Take what they want,
and leave what they didn't.

And they were
gonna give you the containers?

[Cesar] No, they were...
they were...they were...

I don't know what they
were gonna do with them.

But I know that Gladis has a container.

[Judge Judy] No, no, no they...
listen, you're in this business...

- [Cesar] Correct.
- ...to make money.

- Correct.
- [Judge Judy] So somehow

you were gonna make money.

The nieces got the money
from the two people

- that bought the containers?
- [Cesar] The nieces...

The nieces got money from the two people
that bought the containers.

What I'm getting from you
is that the two people have bought

the containers just wanted
the contents of the containers.

They said, you know,
anybody who wants the containers,

you say, "I know this lady
because she buys containers,

and I know she can move them because
she has the equipment to move them."

What was your vigorish?

What was your vig?

What was your payment
for making this marriage between

- I got...
- [Judge Judy] the moving company,

and Mr. A and B?

Am I getting that right?

Is there something that I'm...

[Whitney] It sounds right to me.

- [Sarah] Sounds right.
- [Judge Judy] It... does it...

well, does it sound like what he said?

Is my...okay.

- Am I getting it right?
- [Cesar] Oh. Yeah, yeah, you got it.

You're... you're right on point.

[Judge Judy] Okay.

So I wanna know how much money?

[Cesar] That I make off the deal?

- Yes, because you charged her...
- [Cesar] Correct.

- sixty-four hundred dollars
- Yes.

[Judge Judy]
which she sent you for six containers

- and two motorhomes or RVs.
- Correct. Correct.

Of the sixty-four hundred dollars

how much can you prove to me

that you gave to Mr. A and B

who bought the four containers
and the two containers?

So I'm trying to figure out...

- [Cesar] Well, I go...
- [Judge Judy] Or did you get everything?

- [Cesar] No, I...
- No, no, just...

- [Cesar] Okay.
- Just take a breath.

[Judge Judy] Take a breath.

- The truth will always be the easiest.
- Correct.

[Judge Judy] Cause if these guys wanted
the contents, didn't want the containers,

part of the deal was they had
to get them off the property.

- Correct.
- Right?

And they were gonna have to pay somebody

to move 'em off the property
because that was the deal.

Well, they were all gonna
try to sell 'em too at the same time.

We had two weeks
to get them off the property.

[Judge Judy] Not we,

you have two weeks
to get your junk off the property.

[Cesar]
Well, my stuff out of the property.

They had two weeks
to get their stuff off the property, so...

[Judge Judy] Okay.

And you knew
you had two weeks to get all your

- [Cesar] Correct.
- compressors, and weed whackers,

and whatever else it was off the property?

- Correct.
- Did you get your property off?

- No, ma'am.
- Why?

[Cesar] Because when I did
the deal with the containers for her,

the niece of the owner of the property

was really on top of us

to get those containers out...
of them to get the containers out.

Because it was gonna cost her money
if they left the containers behind.

Part of the deal with the auction company,
when you bought the stuff

was that you were gonna
get those containers out,

or you get banned
from the auction company.

So it was pressure on everybody
to have to move all their stuff out.

[Judge Judy] No, no, just a second.

I'm not interested in the other guys
with the six containers and the two RVs.

I'm interested in the stuff
that you paid $500 for.

- I got a lot of my stuff off.
- [Judge Judy] You...

you were responsible
to get that stuff off the property.

- Correct.
- And you got a lot of it off.

Correct.

I assume you took
what was most important to you first.

I tried but I couldn't get the

most, most important thing I couldn't
get out of there because of the same thing

that I had to find someone

who's gonna help me transport it
because it was big.

Well, that's nobody's fault but your own.

[Cesar] Correct.
That is my fault.

- [Judge Judy] That is your fault.
- But that was... I had...

Just a second, that's your fault.

With all due respect,
we're not here to find out

if I bought something or didn't.

We're here to let you know that she didn't
show up to pick up what she paid for.

No, [laughing] we're gonna find out...

[Cesar] It is not my responsibility
to pick it up for her.

Sir, whatever I wanna find out.

- So be it.
- That's what we're here to find out.

Again, it's your courtroom.

That's the first thing you got right
today. [audience laughing]

[♪ theme music playing]

[announcer] Gladis Gutierrez
claims storage buyer Cesar Galvez

is responsible for refunding
the cost of shipping containers.

Cesar is countersuing
claiming he lost valuable items

after Gladis refused
to pick up her containers.

You have a counterclaim for $10,000
because you say that

because she didn't get the containers off,
if I'm reading this right,

because she didn't get her
containers off the property in time,

you couldn't get your $500
worth of junk off the property,

and therefore you're suing her
for $10,000. [laughing]

[Cesar] Well, it's not that I couldn't get
my $500 worth of junk off there.

- I'm saying that
- So do you understand...

- [Cesar] I wasn't able to move my...
- Do you understand...

my stuff that was being blocked
by her container.

[Judge Judy] No, just this... no.

Your stuff according to you,

I am right, he said his stuff

was all the stuff outside the containers.

Outside.

- [Judge Judy] Do you understand?
- [Cesar] Yeah. You're correct.

- You're right.
- [Judge Judy] Right.

And there was nothing
preventing you from going in

and taking out the stuff that you wanted.

There is when the containers
are in the way of the property.

No, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

So would you like me to let you know
how the containers were?

[Judge Judy] I would... show me
that the containers were in the way

of the stuff outside the containers.

- You have a picture of that?
- The closest I could get to...

[Judge Judy] Because you
took out... because you took out

a lot of the stuff according to you.

- I did.
- You did.

And you only paid $500 for all of it.

- That's beside the point.
- [Judge Judy] Just a second.

- It is the point... you're in a court.
- It is, it's besides the point.

What do you mean it's not the point?
Of course it's the point.

[Cesar] It's not how much I paid for this.

How much value I have to... of the stuff
that I was gonna make my money on,

it prevented me from making my money.

Ha! You're ridiculous, sir.

You paid $500 for it. According to you,

It doesn't matter how much I paid for it.

[Judge Judy]
you got off a lot of your stuff,

and you're suing her for $10,000?

Do you know how ridiculous
that sounds to me?

Do you know how ridiculous it is?

- It does when it's not your money.
- [Judge Judy] Just a second.

Do you know how ridiculous it is?

It can sound different to everybody.

What... just... what you're saying to me,

I mean, you may be able to get over
on your wife, your mother,

somebody else with that nonsense,
but you're not getting over on me.

You paid $500 for a whole
load of junk, according to you,

you went and you got
most of it out of there.

I never said most.
I said I got a lot of it.

Out of there
and you're suing her for $10,000

because she didn't get the containers off,
you couldn't get your property off.

[Judge Judy] And all I said to you
is I wanna see a picture

[Cesar]
Well, I don't have a picture of that.

for her containers
blocking anything that you bought.

[Cesar]
The closest you got to is this... the...

everything's behind these containers.

Sorry, that's the closest
I can get to you.

Could I have that, please?

What?

This is a junkyard.

To your eyes.

[Judge Judy] But just a second.

Hm.

Yeah.

All right. So I've just disposed
of your counterclaim.

[Judge Judy] That's done.

Now, we're gonna get to your claim,

because he still hasn't
answered my question.

He's done a lot of talking
but he hasn't answered my question.

What was your vigorish from Misters A and
B,

who bought the containers for you

putting together a marriage

to get the containers off the property?

I made $200 per container.

[Judge Judy]
Do you have any proof of that?

I have a witness here
who purchased two containers himself.

- [Judge Judy] Just a second.
- [Cesar] Okay.

- Your last name, please?
- Hernandez.

You're not in business together,
is that right?

No.

What is your business?

Well, I bought the storage too
but separately to him.

What do you do with them?

I sell the stuff at the swap meet.

[Judge Judy]
So you sell the stuff that's inside?

Yes.

[Judge Judy] Not the...
not the containers themselves?

- No.
- [Judge Judy] Okay.

So you pick out what you think
is valuable that you can sell?

Correct.

And where do you keep it?

I keep it in my... in a storage.

I rent a storage.

And you're renting
that storage unit for a long time?

Uh, actually, not anymore,
I just get rid about it.

- [Judge Judy] You got rid of it?
- Yes.

[Judge Judy]
Take your hands out of your pockets.

I think better
with your hands out of your pockets.

[audience laughs] Okay.

[Judge Judy]
You think this is gonna be easy?

- I don't think so.
- [Judge Judy] Good. [audience laughing]

[Judge Judy] So you got rid
of that private storage, why?

Because I don't have much
merchandise inside there.

I don't need to be paying
for the storage no more.

So you're not selling it's...

[Neddy] I'm still selling.

- You're still selling stuff?
- [Neddy] Yes.

Well, where do you keep
the stuff that you sell?

In my truck.

[Judge Judy]
And what kind of a truck do you have?

I have a 14-foot of, uh, four...

- Okay. So you have a big truck
- [Neddy] Like a U-Haul, yes.

where you keep your merchandise?

Yes.

- [Judge Judy] Right?
- Correct.

What were you doing buying
two of these huge storage containers?

Think, ha-ha, I want you to think
about what you just testified,

that you keep
all your merchandise in your truck.

And you sell the inside,
that's in the inside of these containers.

- [Neddy] Correct.
- That you... at swap meets, flea markets.

Yes.

These are very big storage containers.

I understand.

[Judge Judy]
So you didn't want the container?

[Neddy] No, I don't.

Right. How much did you pay
for the two containers?

I pay 250 for each one.

And was there a lot of stuff in each one?

- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] Good stuff?

A lot of junk.

[Judge Judy]
A lot of junk. Anything valuable?

[Neddy] Not really.

[Judge Judy] So what did you do
with all this stuff?

[Neddy] Some of the stuff I put
in my truck and take it to the swap meet,

- like, I went, like, twice.
- [Judge Judy] Okay.

And what do you do with the stuff

if it was a lot of junk
that you didn't want?

You wouldn't put that in your truck?

- Left... left... left them in there.
- You left it in the...

In the container, yes.

In the container?

[Neddy] That's, that's correct.

- You left them in the two containers?
- Yes.

[Judge Judy]
Now you paid $250 for each container.

- [Neddy] That's correct.
- [Judge Judy] How much did you pay him?

[Neddy] Pay who? I don't pay anything.

[Judge Judy] How much did he give you?

He give me $500 for... for both.

Him. How did he make money
from your two containers?

He sell it to her.

[Judge Judy] So you sold him
the containers for $250 apiece?

Yes.

Sit down.

How much did you make
on the two containers?

I made $200 on each container
when I sold them.

You sold her six containers...

Correct. That she never picked up
or never went to go see 'em...

[Judge Judy] Just a second. Stop!

You sold her six containers.

In addition to the six containers,
there were two RVs?

Correct.

[Judge Judy]
Were they also on the property?

[Cesar] Correct.

[Judge Judy] Were those things that you
had bought or somebody else bought?

- Those were things that are...
- [Judge Judy] The two RVs.

They belong to the owner...
of the... to the niece

because nobody purchased them.

So she asked me if I...

- To get rid of them?
- [Cesar] Yeah. To... if I can get...

- [Judge Judy] To...
- [Cesar] If I can sell 'em for her.

Not to get rid of 'em.

If I can sell 'em for her.
Not to get rid of 'em.

Well, she...
you can't tell me what she asked,

so far you haven't paid a thing for that,

I mean, you didn't pay any money to her.

What do you mean
I didn't pay the money to her?

Show me proof that you sent
the owner of the property any money.

A lot of this was done in cash.

That's the thing,
all these auctions are cash.

[Judge Judy] Did you... did you...
did you pay him in check or cash?

[Gladis] I did a transfer.

- Uh, and I have bank account proof.
- [Judge Judy] Okay.

So I assume you did the same?

No. And that's the thing, you're assuming.

And you're in business.

[Cesar] Correct.
But you're assuming how I do my business.

You're in business. You're in business.

You're assuming how I do my business.

[Judge Judy] She gave you...
she gave you $6,400.

- You don't dispute that?
- For merchandise she didn't pick up.

Just a second.
You don't dispute that?

[Cesar] I'm not. It's the truth.

But it's not my responsibility
to pick it up for her.

[Judge Judy] And I'm... I'm trying...

I'm trying to figure out
how you made money.

- You neither bought...
- [Cesar] Well, because the...

...the contents of the containers
nor bought the containers themselves,

yet you sold the containers to her,
and you sold the two RVs to her

that were on the property for $6,400.

With all due respect, we're not here

to find out if I bought something
or I didn't.

We're here to let you know that she didn't
show up to pick up what she paid for.

It is not my responsibility
to pick it up for her.

[laughing] We're here to find out, sir,
whatever I wanna find out.

- So be it.
- That's why we're here to find out.

Again, it's your courtroom.

That's the first thing
you got right today.

- [laughter]
- [Cesar] Okay.

That looks like a whole bunch of junk.

It looks like a whole bunch of junk.

I wouldn't spend $6,000 on that.

A reasonable person would not invest
$6,000 on a bunch of junk.

It wasn't a smart business deal.

Yes, sorry.

[♪ theme music playing]

[announcer] Gladis Gutierrez
has accused storage buyer Cesar Galvez

of refusing to refund her money
after she could not retrieve

the shipping containers she purchased.

According to you, you paid him $6,400

for something that you hadn't
personally seen, is that right?

Yes.

When did you make this contract with him?

March 4th.

Do you have any proof of that contract?

- [Gladis] Yes.
- I'd like to see it.

When I make the deposits,
to the process and I...

- [Judge Judy] Now just a sec.
- Okay.

[Judge Judy] Just one second.

No, no, no. Just a second.

I wanna see a contract.

Oh, no. He didn't sign any contract.

Because I trust him.

Who is Pereira Trucking?

He called me to say
that containers are ready to pick up.

So I said to driver
because I was in Vegas,

I have pictures when they came,
they send me those pictures,

the container is still
with a lot of stuff inside

and the area it wasn't clear.

It was a lot of things.

- May I see it please?
- [Gladis] You couldn't even walk.

The pictures.

All the pictures are there.

I got it from the drivers.

[Judge Judy]
These are the pictures of the two RVs?

[Gladis] Yes.

Just... but it wasn't clean.

- [Judge Judy] It wasn't cleared out.
- Yes. Yes.

[Judge Judy] Oh, that's what he said?

That's why... that's why they couldn't...

they charge me for the trip

but it was just a empty run.

Did you have a discussion with him
when you made this deal with him?

[Gladis] Yes, I called him right away.

- [Judge Judy] No.
- [Gladis] Oh.

[Judge Judy]
When you made the deal with him?

Okay.

Is this the first time
you ever made a deal with him?

No.
This is my second purchase.

He sold me two storage container before.

Why would you send him money
without seeing these?

I'm looking at the...

He send me a video, I have the video.

He sent you a video
before you sent him the money?

[Gladis] Yes.
Before sending the money.

- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] I'd like to see the video.

Okay.

This mess is the one
we'll have to remove.

This we'll have to throw away.

So we have to throw away this mess here

so that your trailer
comes in through here.

That there, we have to remove
so that it's better to see,

otherwise I don't know.

But we have...
Excuse me, guys.

All this will be moved
so that you can come in,

this will be the first container
that you'll take.

[Judge Judy]
Just a sec.

When you saw this,
it looked like a whole bunch of junk.

Did you send her that video?

- Yes, ma'am.
- [Judge Judy] Okay.

Well, Ms. Gutierrez,
that looks like a whole bunch of junk.

It looks like a whole bunch of junk.

I wouldn't spend $6,000 on that.

A reasonable person would not invest
$6,000 on a bunch of junk.

I didn't care about the, the stuff,

I just care about the boxes
because for me,

that way it seems
it worth the money that I pay.

But empty.

He acknowledges that he sent this video

before you made the transaction.

What I saw is a whole bunch of junk.

Yeah, in the... on the video

I just was watching the...
the... the shipping container, I...

[Judge Judy] Okay.
I don't care what you were watching that.

It wasn't a smart business deal.

Yes, sorry.

Now he was the man
who bought two containers.

- [Cesar] Correct.
- She gave you $6,400.

The RVs are worthless.

Let's say she gave you $6,000
for the four containers.

Six containers.

[Judge Judy] Six containers.

He says he got his money out.

$500.

What's the name of the person
to whom you say

you gave money
for the other four containers?

I don't have that name with me.

I wanna know who you gave the money to.

With the guy that bought it
but I don't know him personally.

He bought them that day,
I met him that day.

- When the auction was...
- Well, but you didn't have...

you didn't have the money then, sir.

Because you didn't have the money
until she sent you the money.

- [Cesar] Correct.
- [Judge Judy] You had...

well, she didn't send you the money

on the date of the auction,
which was February 23rd.

Yeah, that's when the... that's when
everything was sold but not to her.

- Oh, I... No, I understand that.
- Correct.

So, I wanna know
what you did with the $6,000.

Who you gave it to?

I already know about him.

You got $500, right?

- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] From whom?

- From Cesar.
- [Judge Judy] From him?

So he gave you $500
for two containers

that you left a whole bunch of stuff in.

- Yes.
- [Judge Judy] Right.

[Judge Judy] So now you have
four containers left.

Correct.

And you said you made $200 per container.

That's correct.

- [Judge Judy] That's what you said.
- Correct.

[Judge Judy] So I'm taking off his 500.

That leaves $5,500.

So I'm gonna take off
from the $5,500, $800.

Now you're gonna tell me
who you gave that money to.

Again, I can't tell you who it is
because I just met him that day.

[Judge Judy] Just a second. How much...

you're gonna tell me how much money.

How much money?

I mean, they bought them.

Right now there's about $4,000

floating around
and I don't know who has it.

So far, you didn't spend any money
except for the $500 for everything around.

That still leaves us $5,500
for the four containers.

Yeah, so I charged 200 per container.

So that would put 800
in my pocket for those containers,

so the balance on that would go
to the man that I met at the auction.

You didn't give it to him
on the day of the auction.

- [Cesar] No, I didn't.
- No, because you didn't have it.

I did it when she sent...
when she sent me the money, is when I...

[Judge Judy]
When she sent you the transfer...

[Cesar] That's when I did the deal.

Which was on...
when she sent you the transfer,

which was on March 4th,
and she sent it to her bank account.

So you got it into a PayPal, or a Vimo,
or whatever they call it.

You know, hocus pocus.

- I try to understand.
- [Cesar] Yeah.

[Gladis] And the $2,200

are working in his business

and give it to him in person.

Cash.

But I take it from my bank account.

- [Judge Judy] Really?
- Yeah, I took it from...

[Judge Judy] Just a second.

Explain to me why you would go

to give him $2,200 on March 10th?

Because he called me and say,

"Hey, you need to pay for the RVs
before you get 'em."

You know something?
I'm not believing you.

You wanna know why?

Because this delivery receipt
is dated March 10th,

which is same day
that you sent your guys there.

- Yeah. That's the date. Hours before.
- To, to pick up the stuff.

Well, why in the world
would you pay him $2,200 in cash?

[Gladis]
After... when I give him the money,

when they called me
and say not even the RVs are worth it.

I called him again and I say,
"Hey, I need my money

that I just gave you right now."

And he was like, "Oh, come and get it."

She made a bad deal.

She made a bad deal.

She's a businesswoman.

She should've known better.

You made a deal to buy six containers,

there's nothing in here that says

that the six containers have to be empty,

ready to go.

You made a bad deal.

But it seems to me
as a smart business person

you don't buy things that look like junk

and spend $6,400 on it.

You don't look like
that kind of lady to me.

I'm dismissing your case.

Your counterclaim,
I dealt with a long time ago.

It's full of baloney.

- [Judge Judy] We're done here.
- [Kevin] Court is adjourned.

What?

I feel like I did a very, very bad,
um, uh, purchase.

I sold her a container,
she didn't pick 'em up.

He promised me
that he's gonna clean everything

and fill the containers,
then the containers

are still with a lot of stuff inside.

You know, sometimes
people show up to the work site,

they see the work,
and it's too much, they don't wanna do it.

[Judge Judy]
Actually, that case was almost

as confusing to me
when I finished it as when I began.

The only thing that was a takeaway from me

was that the defendant
had lots of side hustles,

and paid 500 bucks
for a whole lot of stuff

that look like junk.

For that he had a counterclaim for $10,000

because one man's trash
is another man's treasure, I guess.

So that was clearly a hustle.

And I actually had real problems, Sarah,

believing that a smart businesswoman

like this is would separate herself

from $6,000 based on a video of trash.

In any event, she didn't have a contract

in hand that said
he will deliver the stuff clean,

she didn't pick it up,
she wants her money back.

- That's a problem.
- [Sarah] That's too hard to follow.

Too hard to follow the cash.

Too hard to follow the cash. You're right.

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