Editor's Rant: Judge Karen's Unfair Ruling

This is none of my business and I don't why, but what I'm about to tell you got me riled up. So I guess someone out there needs to read this on my blog.

I'm into Judge Shows and recently I was watching the Judge Karen show where there were two litigants. The plaintiff, a Scottish man had let his American friend drive his car. The friend had been drinking, but wasn't obviously drunk. On his way home, he was pulled over by the cops. He failed the sobriety test administered, was hauled off to jail, and the car was impounded.

He called his friend, the Scottish man to get him out of jail. The Scottish man posted bail for his American friend and got him out of jail. The Scottish man went and got his car out of impound.

After all this transpired, the Scottish man asked his American friend to pay him back for the money he paid to bail him out of jail and the money he paid to get his car out of the impound. The American man refused, saying he shouldn't have let him drive his car and he should've left him in jail.

They ended up in Judge Karen's court. After explaining the scenario above, to my utter shock, Judge Karen ruled that the American should only reimburse the Scottish man for the bail money he posted and not for the substantial amount of money he had to pay to get the car back.

She said her judgment was based on her belief that he knew he was drunk when he gave him his car to drive, but she also believed the American called his friend to come get him out of jail, which the American had denied.

I felt Judge Karen's decision was wrong because no one would give a visibly drunk person their car to drive not for fear of cops pulling them over, but for fear of them getting into an accident with the car. Also, ultimately, the American man caused the car to be impounded and he should've paid to get it out.

I felt very bad for the Scottish man, who sarcastically said, "Thanks" to his American friend. What happened to “judgments are to make people whole”, which Judge Marilyn Milian always says? In this case the Scotsman was not made whole. He was left in the negative. Maybe one needs to shop around for the right judge to judge ones case?

To Judge Karen, it’s because of judgments like this that kindness will slowly but surely be a thing of the past in this country, and that's really sad.

To the Scotsman, my prayer for you is that God will bless you financially, so you will be able to afford the burden of the cost you have to shoulder. Also, take heart, God says vengeance is mine and his vengeance will be visited upon the American, because he was clearly wrong. By the time God is through with him, he will wish Judge Karen had ordered him to pay the money.

To the American guy, somehow you will lose much more money than the amount of money your friend paid to get his car out, so you learn the lesson that what you did was wrong so you don’t repeat it in the future.