I commend the plaintiff's patience with the judge because i really like the way the man basically said he could only afford 2 tires which were obviously used for $80 and later when he states he still had to drive the car while it rattled she says "because you didn't want to pay for a tow!". No, lady, if the man didn't have the money for a full set or at least 2 brand new tires, what makes you think he had the money for a tow? Yeah its dangerous for him to drive like that but sometimes life hits you out of nowhere and the answer isn't so cut and dry. I do think she makes sound judgments ultimately and does right by the law but sometimes her side comments sound ignorant and, even worse, ill-intentioned.
This is unfortunately very common for people who are, and have been, wealthy for a long period of time, not having to worry or think about their finances and because of that, they've kind of lost touch with reality and the ability to relate to the average person. I see it all the time with Judge Judy as well. She will make comments about how a few hundred dollars isn't that much money, when in reality, it's a lot of money to the majority of average people. I have also noticed how it has hindered her ability to properly determine the value of certain things, typically significantly undervaluing them, most likely because she probably doesn't do her own shopping or handle her own finances and it's been so long since she has done those things, that her only point of reference is from decades ago, before she gained her wealth.
He is going to school and working struggling making bad decisions. Many ppl don’t know about the struggle and you’re judging this young man. I pray his situation has changed and he’s doing better.
I’m with the plaintiff. There’s no way the lug nuts should have fallen off in a day. He should not have had to make a second trip to the shop for a job done poorly the first time around. Period.
I was a mechanic for 10 years automotive and diesel. They didn’t put those nuts on tight enough. Most of those cheap tire places don’t even use torque wrenches. Every car has a different tightness for the lugs. Not torquing them enough can allow them to back off. Tightening to tight can cause your rotor warp causing vibrations.
My dad taught me how to change tires and and change oil at 14 before I got my license at 16. At 4'9"/90 lbs soaking wet, I've had to stand on my star to get lugs off AND to ensure they're on tight enough for me to trust anyone who might've stopped to help me change it (just because I know how, doesn't mean I want to do it in a dress😂) Then I worked for a dealership in the service dept my last 2 yrs of HS & 2 yrs of Jr college. My mouth kind of dropped when the defendant's guy said that they have a 'really expensive impact gun.' Like the cost of the impact gun is somehow going to make the person using it competant🙄
@@kimberlyc84 yeah just hitting each lug with an impact and calling it a day is crazy for a shop. That’s some tree shade mechanic stuff. It’s too easy to buy a torque wrench(they’re not too expensive), look at the sticker on the inside of the driver door for the torque specs and tighten the tires correctly. They’re putting people’s lives in danger being lazy.
I caught that too Sis as he was walking in the door. I’m 🏳️🌈 and I know mechanics will screw you over if they know this too. But in his defense he has a wife so…
@@Hazel.Eyed.Gemini HHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! OK. AND? If he came across a government/work vehicle on tires with wires exposed, then he would report it and it would be out of use.
I love the defendant first comment outside the court room. "I feel it's time wated but we gotta take care of our customers!" Like forcing your client to take you to court is taking care of them. Bwahahaha
I've been a mechanic for a long time. I've seen even experienced techs not get lug nuts tight. I used to believe that I could get lugs properly tightened with an impact wrench. Well, you can't. A lot of guys use "Torque Sticks" in shops today. But I religiously use a torque wrench after many years of working on the same cars in the long term. It's honestly the only way to be sure they are right.
Sometimes life's like that. You have to go out on a wing & a prayer (bald tires or wobbly wheels) because that's just the situation. I wish I lived in a 2-judge income yielding household so, I didn’t have to live from payvheck to paycheck. Not to mention how extremely happy that I elevated from living in the negative between paychecks. Can I get an Amen?!
No. As a mechanic, you guys don’t have the right to drive with no brakes, bald tires, or wobbly suspension. You’re going to KILL somebody! Take the bus. Ride a bike. Hitch a ride. Trust me, I was a poor single mom and I fixed ALL my cars issues myself because all I could afford was the car part. Theres no excuse and it’s not ok.
@GirlsNDragons Been there and as someone who also fixed their own vehicles, mostly by going to a junkyard to pull the parts needed. None of those places was on a bus line & you're only going to get folks to take you out there every once in a while.
I work for a school system. Some resource officers get paid like a substitute. It's either 4 hours or 8 hours. I'm clerical, but I'm on salary so I get between hour pay. He might also not be eligible for any type of benefits, which would give him PTO/ paid time off. In Rochester can be pretty rough. So they're probably just thankful that he even comes to work.
Exactly.... all he lost was 44.00 in wages, but if he thought he could get 500.00, of course he is going to waste his time... I mean look at him, he doesn't look like he missed any time doing anything physical...
@@AnneOhn123 Oh that's just terrible. His appearance has nothing to do with him being an opportunist over 500 dollars. He has a job. What a big waste of time that would be. Thank goodness Jude Milian has more common sense here.
This happened to my dad. He went to a tire shop they changed his tire and he got on the highway and boom tire came right off!! Hit a lady driving behind him and messed my dad’s truck up too. The tire shop had to pay up!!!
I been in that same situation where I had to choose. Pay the lights or get a new tire. Things were hard for me then. Never been in a situation where the Lung nuts fell off, but if they did. I would be upset because....do you know I waited another 2 weeks to get paid and used my last. Last thing I need is you guys not doing the job correctly
The dude drove for two days knowing lug nuts were falling out without even attempting to tighten them? No jack in the trunk? No rtieds with an iron to help him tighten them? What a careless individual.
in 1960s this happened to my father also, got new tyres and later that afternoon he picked up something wrong,. three lug nuts had come out, all he did was take one out from the other three tyres and put them in ,
I’ve had this happen to me twice. First time was 30+ years ago, and felt the car start to shake, then the wheel came off. Second time was this past summer on our way to vacation 300miles away. Luckily I realized why the car was vibrating (all the nuts were loose on one wheel and one lug bolt was broken) I called my mechanic, who took full responsibility as we just had brake work done. He contacted a shop at our destination and paid our bill.
Those defendants didn't put on the lug nuts or tighten them . The poor plaintiff should have gotten more compensation for the unsafe condition he was put in . I will never visit the defendants business .
He has a wife. Didn't see that coming. 😜 Also...what kind of man doesn't know how to tighten a lug nut! My dad taught me (his daughter) when I bought my first car how to change a tire and that included making sure lug nuts were tightened really well before driving it. How to check all the fluids change the battery and jump-start it if I needed to. That first rumble should've had him tightening those lug nuts right away...not driving around making it worse. Duh! That's assuming he didn't loosen them himself to try and scam the defendant.
@tcudahey9550 he didnt loose a whole day of pay which is why she only awarded him 3 hours. She literally said: "I see where you would have gone in earlier than you did."
I see everybody on this thread don't drive a volvo.... Volvo doesn't have the same lug nuts you have on yall cars. These cars have a one piece lug nut and stud. If it's missing, there is literally nothing there. No stud at all.
3 hours of work is 44 dollars for this gentleman. He clearly doesn’t make that much money. Being poor is expensive and I feel for him. Sometimes the judge (and the comments) are insensitive to the plight of others
At first the plaintiff is likable and no way did he loosen the lug nuts however the $511 he sought made me like him less. He wanted extra money for things he's not due plus he had been driving around with dangerously damaged tires. The Judge doesn't reward greed. The litigants each receive an "appearance fee" of $300 so the plaintiff did very well.
it happened in the 1960s to my father, he had new tyres put on, and later that day think 3 of the nuts had come out on one of the rims, , those years most cars had five nuts, so all he did was take one from the other 3 rims and put them on the lost ones, and bob was your uncle,
You could tell that JM wasn't even listening to the Plaintiff. I heard him clearly say, he was already out a half day's pay being at the shop at 9:30 because he starts at 6am. By the time he's leaving the tire shop at 1pm, his work day is over. Then if you weren't sure that she wasn't listening. Her backup assumption that he could have went & filed another day. Why would he miss another day's pay to go file, he had already missed that whole day of pay already? He went & filed that day because he couldn't afford to miss ANOTHER day!
Most schools are closed on the weekends. Most tire shops are open on the weekends. I think that was JM's point. He didn't HAVE TO choose a work day to go in.
A school safety officer who doesn't care about the innocent lives on the roads as he's driving the dangerous car. He has no business having the children's lives in his hands as he's shown a lack of personal responsibility.
3:10 Usually a “little shimmy” feeling from a car can mean a tire is off balance, or the tire is loose. Who doesn’t carry a crow bar in their car, or basic tools?
If he hadn’t asked for free tires I might believe the shop was at fault. But since he wanted the lugs and the cost of his tires to be paid for it’s possible he loosened them on his own to initiate a lawsuit. What grown man doesn’t know how to tighten a lug nut? A five yr old could figure that out. He was trying to scam.
I'm with you, asking for the money back on the tires and causing a scene at the tire shop. 500 is a lot of money to a opportunist, he tried it and got $44.
something wrong with that case. the guy is driving around on tires so bad that the belts are exposed and he's worried about matching lug nuts. $187 for lug nuts???? Where can you buy 2 new tires for $80.???? who doesn't have a lug wrench in their car? What tire shop doesn't have spare lug nuts kicking around? Why would it take 3 hours to put a couple of lug nuts on? Why is he driving a car with loose and missing lug nuts?
A man that can't tighten a lug nut is just sad. He felt a vibration and just kept on driving. Thank God he made it to the shop and they made it right. However that wasn't good enough, he wanted free tires. What happened to court is for righting wrongs, not a bonanza? She just made the cash register ring for him lol.
I don't know why he even took his case to this Judges court she can be so out of touch and very bias with certain cases. $44 dollars is a slap in the face she really agreed with the defendants.
This is exactly why I never trust a shop to install my wheels, impact guns are not what you need, they need to be torqued properly and then retorqued after the car is driven a bit
First , the tires were beyond bad at least 2k miles (minimum) ago. If he works for the school system (which I do) he gets paid monthly. **Correction: unless he's paid as a sub, then it might be bimonthly** Even driving from work to school & home in Atl could put him close to that in one month. BUT there is public transportation more than not. Even in surrounding suburbs. And if he has to be to work that early, he's at the high school level. Our high schools employ minimum 500 staff, ALL staff. Custodians & cafeteria workers get in at the same time 6am. We have 10 custodians & 15 cafeteria & I'm at one of the smaller elementary schools. So you know that means there are at least twice as many of each at the high school level. Not ONE person was available? And that means that there are at least 50 people he could ask to bum a ride with. Just need to put it out there. Years ago, a young mother who went to our church was driving on bald tires (& this case goes to show that it is not necessarily just women who don't pay attention to their vehicles). She was driving w her daughter and niece. Car hydroplaned, crashed, ejected her niece, daughter died in the car fire. It was all over the news for months. Few years later, the grandmother (paternal) tried to sue her (the mother) for wrongful death of the granddaughter. As if losing your only child, the child of that mother, wasn't torture enough. Judge dismissed it. I've been in a situation where my former spouse actually would NOT take the car even to get used tires (which is what this guy did because new tires on any Volvo would be more than he paid) Anyway, I literally was on tread and the air seeeped out. Called spouse (only because I was in a dress that day. Dad had taught me how to change oil & tires before I even got my license when I was 14. Then I worked for 4 years at a Cadillac dealership in the service Dept thru hs & jr. college). Spouse wouldn't pick up. So I put a sweatshirt on upside down over my legs, changed it. Got home. Filed for dv a few months later. (This was the pinnacle of stupid isht that had befn piling up over the years.) So I got rid of two guzzlers, one was a gas guzzler, the other was a sanity guzzler! I've maintained all my subsequent vehicles top notch. But it's just my automatic habit to look at my fellow teachers' cars when I pull into the lot & I hate to see worn & bald tires & if I mention it, they just say, 'Oh, my husband will take care of it.' Then why are they bald?🙄
I'm on the side of the defendants, the plaintiff didn't care that he was driving on such bald tyres that wires were exposed, but now suddenly claims that his new tyres weren't screwed on properly so demands the defendants to refund his tyres and refund the extra lug nuts. Sounds like a scam to me, it's not like the tyres came off while he was driving, supposedly he continued to drive around even with loose lug nuts. I don't believe the plaintiff at all. The judge didn't ask the plaintiff for any proof of what he was claiming. He should not have been awarded anything...
every car comes with a lug wrench and a jack simply take one nut from the other 3 wheels, not too bright driving on one lug nut. How is it that a grown man has no idea how to work his nuts?
I could have sent him the $40 for all that !!! Are you serious smh ! I’m pretty sure the gas, the cost of the flight, to get to court, lunch dinner hotel stay? the court case for $44 😮
6:56 they over torqued the lug nuts and pulled them threw the hub! They seem like a shady place so probably just impacts the nut on not checking if it’s torqued to the required level! They are definitely at fault and playing completely stupid! Anyone that has changed a tire knows this and they claim to have 9 years experience between the two of them? 😂😂😂
If the Judge had believed Plaintiff story he would have been awarded a tidy amount, paying for his tyres etc. It’s very suspicious that anyone would be driving around on an obviously loose lug nuts.
I wonder if this tire shop had anything to do with tightening the door plug bolts on that Alaska Airlines 737-9 Max? Seriously, the tire shop obviously didn't torque down the lug nuts to factory specs like they should've. However, Mr. School Safety Officer, the plaintiff is an idiot! Once he noticed the lug nut issue, should've parked the car and made the shop come take care of the problem on the spot or at least have the car towed in for safety reasons.
He is irresponsible as heck to drive like that but went to file a lawsuit immediately. People and their priorities. I’m sorry but as a grown man and you someone husband you need to have sufficient funds for tires. For the tires to get that bad they had to be almost a decade old that’s trifling. Tires last like 5 years and then you can still run them down another year after that. Ain’t no excuses for the wires to be out to the point where the police stopped you that’s trifling, lazy, childish, and absurd.
Thank you! Walmart has less expensive tires. Buy two at a time, just figure something out instead slacking. Somebody said the plaintiff man card is revoked, I agree.
I commend the plaintiff's patience with the judge because i really like the way the man basically said he could only afford 2 tires which were obviously used for $80 and later when he states he still had to drive the car while it rattled she says "because you didn't want to pay for a tow!". No, lady, if the man didn't have the money for a full set or at least 2 brand new tires, what makes you think he had the money for a tow? Yeah its dangerous for him to drive like that but sometimes life hits you out of nowhere and the answer isn't so cut and dry. I do think she makes sound judgments ultimately and does right by the law but sometimes her side comments sound ignorant and, even worse, ill-intentioned.
AGREED!👍😊
IF U don't have the $ for something , U DON'T HAVE the $$$ .
Thank you - I came looking for this comment. It is terrible to be the working poor.
This is unfortunately very common for people who are, and have been, wealthy for a long period of time, not having to worry or think about their finances and because of that, they've kind of lost touch with reality and the ability to relate to the average person. I see it all the time with Judge Judy as well. She will make comments about how a few hundred dollars isn't that much money, when in reality, it's a lot of money to the majority of average people. I have also noticed how it has hindered her ability to properly determine the value of certain things, typically significantly undervaluing them, most likely because she probably doesn't do her own shopping or handle her own finances and it's been so long since she has done those things, that her only point of reference is from decades ago, before she gained her wealth.
@@sashabenoit1518 Yeah , I agree .
He is going to school and working struggling making bad decisions. Many ppl don’t know about the struggle and you’re judging this young man. I pray his situation has changed and he’s doing better.
Exactly!!
Been there, done that and it’s still funny 😂 he’s gone be ok
He’s 38
I’m with the plaintiff. There’s no way the lug nuts should have fallen off in a day. He should not have had to make a second trip to the shop for a job done poorly the first time around. Period.
@@panamafernandez4641❤
I was a mechanic for 10 years automotive and diesel. They didn’t put those nuts on tight enough. Most of those cheap tire places don’t even use torque wrenches. Every car has a different tightness for the lugs. Not torquing them enough can allow them to back off. Tightening to tight can cause your rotor warp causing vibrations.
My dad taught me how to change tires and and change oil at 14 before I got my license at 16. At 4'9"/90 lbs soaking wet, I've had to stand on my star to get lugs off AND to ensure they're on tight enough for me to trust anyone who might've stopped to help me change it (just because I know how, doesn't mean I want to do it in a dress😂)
Then I worked for a dealership in the service dept my last 2 yrs of HS & 2 yrs of Jr college.
My mouth kind of dropped when the defendant's guy said that they have a 'really expensive impact gun.'
Like the cost of the impact gun is somehow going to make the person using it competant🙄
Yep, they will ruin your car with the impact gun
@@kimberlyc84 yeah just hitting each lug with an impact and calling it a day is crazy for a shop. That’s some tree shade mechanic stuff. It’s too easy to buy a torque wrench(they’re not too expensive), look at the sticker on the inside of the driver door for the torque specs and tighten the tires correctly. They’re putting people’s lives in danger being lazy.
The way the plaintiff came into court seem like he is still mad. He couldn't wait to get to the lecture 🤣🤣🤣 And he turned out to be a teddy bear 🧸
He was pulled over twice concerning the exposed wires on his tires and yet he's talking about he could have lost his life with the loose lug nuts 😂
Not to mention the risk of being killed by the cops.
Exactly
Right! I despise people who know their vehicle needs repair and it could put themselves and/or others at risk and still drives the car smh
Hey idiots. He didn't get it fixed because he couldn't afford it.
😂😂😂
Wife? As sassy as he is? Okay girl!!
😂😂😂😂
His wife name is Derek 😅
😂😂😂 The Sass in the plaintiff’s face during the announcement.
I caught that too Sis as he was walking in the door. I’m 🏳️🌈 and I know mechanics will screw you over if they know this too. But in his defense he has a wife so…
@@dougedoug2105He’s giving I got a wife but I like to bottom 🍑🌈 in my spare time. How he doin’? (in my Wendy Williams voice) 🤭
Uh yeah! That kind of says it all!! lol! I’m assuming he was not happy with JM’s ruling?? 😮
Everyone is focused on his shortcomings target than the negligence and lack of care from the professionals. 😂 The American nightmare!
I agree
A safety officer who's driving around on tires with the wires exposed? The irony of it all!!!!
OSHA
@@Hazel.Eyed.Gemini HHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! OK. AND? If he came across a government/work vehicle on tires with wires exposed, then he would report it and it would be out of use.
If this is who we hire for school safety I think we figured out the problem. lol
safety officer means security guard.
The pay at the school must be minimum wage.
I love the defendant first comment outside the court room. "I feel it's time wated but we gotta take care of our customers!" Like forcing your client to take you to court is taking care of them. Bwahahaha
I totally agree! And then still accusing them in the post-interview of messing with the lug-nuts to maybe make a few bucks! Super professional.🤣
The plaintiff is the black guy😂 You're talking about the defendant
@@JustinDAMusic You are correct. I corrected my comment. Thanks
He has a respectable job ...and he has a nice demeanor
He has a sweet demeanor
Sir, ain't no way you cared that those lugs nut matched when you drove those tires until they disintegrated😂😂😂
I've been a mechanic for a long time. I've seen even experienced techs not get lug nuts tight. I used to believe that I could get lugs properly tightened with an impact wrench. Well, you can't. A lot of guys use "Torque Sticks" in shops today. But I religiously use a torque wrench after many years of working on the same cars in the long term. It's honestly the only way to be sure they are right.
I will use the impact to remove wheels, but never to install them
@@kellismith4329 That is the best way. If you do that you will more than likely never have an issue.
They actually do say at some shops that you should come back 1-2 days later to have the lug nuts RETORQUED.
Yup! 100 km or 3 days. Always, and every time/place.
Any shop worth their salt will beg you to come back to retorque after 100 miles
Sometimes life's like that. You have to go out on a wing & a prayer (bald tires or wobbly wheels) because that's just the situation. I wish I lived in a 2-judge income yielding household so, I didn’t have to live from payvheck to paycheck. Not to mention how extremely happy that I elevated from living in the negative between paychecks. Can I get an Amen?!
No. As a mechanic, you guys don’t have the right to drive with no brakes, bald tires, or wobbly suspension. You’re going to KILL somebody! Take the bus. Ride a bike. Hitch a ride. Trust me, I was a poor single mom and I fixed ALL my cars issues myself because all I could afford was the car part. Theres no excuse and it’s not ok.
@GirlsNDragons Been there and as someone who also fixed their own vehicles, mostly by going to a junkyard to pull the parts needed. None of those places was on a bus line & you're only going to get folks to take you out there every once in a while.
Kind of ironic that he's a school safety officer but lives his life in the most unsafe ways possible 😂 $44 for 3 hrs? Ouch
"safety officer" means security guard.
@@kyoto32001does that change anything about what he said?
@highlander666 the plaintiff doesn’t make a ton of money.
I work for a school system. Some resource officers get paid like a substitute. It's either 4 hours or 8 hours.
I'm clerical, but I'm on salary so I get between hour pay.
He might also not be eligible for any type of benefits, which would give him PTO/ paid time off.
In Rochester can be pretty rough. So they're probably just thankful that he even comes to work.
$14.71 an hour
I love how they keep saying that no one would waste their time like that, yet people do it everyday hoping to make a dollar or two.
Exactly.... all he lost was 44.00 in wages, but if he thought he could get 500.00, of course he is going to waste his time... I mean look at him, he doesn't look like he missed any time doing anything physical...
Yup
@@AnneOhn123 Oh that's just terrible. His appearance has nothing to do with him being an opportunist over 500 dollars. He has a job. What a big waste of time that would be. Thank goodness Jude Milian has more common sense here.
@@AnneOhn123 Looking at your face , right back at ya .
Plaintiff walked in super zesty.
What are you talking about? He has a wife 😂
@@ang3lb0y85 lol, he can still be zesty.
I said the same thing lol
@@atriah7934 LOL
“We could’ve been visiting you in a graveyard” 😂
😂😂😂😂
You can tolerate a lil shimmy
Begins to do a lil shimmy
I love watching this judge
He’s sassy.
Lol 🤣 very. 😂
Who else was shocked when the zesty plaintiff said "my wife"?? By the way, he's a good looking guy; making us chocolate brothers look good 🙌🏿🙌🏿
I feel you just have to assume he's straight, although as a Gay Black man myself radars were going off on Plantiff. but still lol.
He wasn't that zesty.
"Wife" compared to "Boo" or "Gf"? ;)
Lug nuts not tightened happened to me and I WAS almost in a severe accident. It happens!!!
I tripped out when he said wife
This happened to my dad. He went to a tire shop they changed his tire and he got on the highway and boom tire came right off!! Hit a lady driving behind him and messed my dad’s truck up too. The tire shop had to pay up!!!
I been in that same situation where I had to choose. Pay the lights or get a new tire. Things were hard for me then. Never been in a situation where the Lung nuts fell off, but if they did. I would be upset because....do you know I waited another 2 weeks to get paid and used my last. Last thing I need is you guys not doing the job correctly
The dude drove for two days knowing lug nuts were falling out without even attempting to tighten them? No jack in the trunk? No rtieds with an iron to help him tighten them? What a careless individual.
Many years ago this exact thing happened to me after getting a tire at Sears. When I went back the shop completely denied it of course.
in 1960s this happened to my father also, got new tyres and later that afternoon he picked up something wrong,. three lug nuts had come out, all he did was take one out from the other three tyres and put them in ,
I watched a car pull out of a tire shop and then one of the tires flew off into oncoming traffic.
$44 is not worth a full day pay. Waste of time coming to court
The way ya’ll going in on the plaintiff lol
He needs to Sue ya’ll for pain and suffering lol
THIS DUDE IS AN ABSOLUTE DANGER TO EVERYONE, ON THE ROAD 😮😮
I’m still more afraid of police on the road tho 👀😱
And don’t get me started on the drunk drivers 😱😱😱. The world today 😞
Exactly. So uncaring as long as he gets where he needs to be F everybody else.
Tire shop employees should know that lug nuts must be re-torqued after the wheels are mounted. Standard procedure at every tire shop I ever went to.
Did he really say "my wife"?? He probably meant my 👰🏿♂️! 🤔🤨
This dude his man card revoked.
So you feel the car has a vibration, and you continue to drive it for days! - thats the problem right there.
I’ve had this happen to me twice. First time was 30+ years ago, and felt the car start to shake, then the wheel came off. Second time was this past summer on our way to vacation 300miles away. Luckily I realized why the car was vibrating (all the nuts were loose on one wheel and one lug bolt was broken) I called my mechanic, who took full responsibility as we just had brake work done. He contacted a shop at our destination and paid our bill.
Those defendants didn't put on the lug nuts or tighten them . The poor plaintiff should have gotten more compensation for the unsafe condition he was put in . I will never visit the defendants business .
Now, I've had a hoopty with a shimmy. You gotta check on these things.
He has a wife. Didn't see that coming. 😜 Also...what kind of man doesn't know how to tighten a lug nut! My dad taught me (his daughter) when I bought my first car how to change a tire and that included making sure lug nuts were tightened really well before driving it. How to check all the fluids change the battery and jump-start it if I needed to. That first rumble should've had him tightening those lug nuts right away...not driving around making it worse. Duh! That's assuming he didn't loosen them himself to try and scam the defendant.
Yes! My mom and dad taught me how to work on my own vehicle.
Thought it was just me lol..I said WIFE???
More like his beard
😂👍
So why in the world can't he have a wife??!? He's a MAN isn't he??
$44 bit of an insult to the man , probably cost him more than that to get to court .
They pay for all travel expenses.
@@GRB22But to file for court costs
$44 means that he earns around $14.50 per hour. The judge could have given him a bit more like half a day’s pay. Sheesh.
@tcudahey9550 he didnt loose a whole day of pay which is why she only awarded him 3 hours. She literally said: "I see where you would have gone in earlier than you did."
@@tcudahey9550 she is soo stingy and bias
I see everybody on this thread don't drive a volvo.... Volvo doesn't have the same lug nuts you have on yall cars.
These cars have a one piece lug nut and stud. If it's missing, there is literally nothing there. No stud at all.
The episode with the funniest repetition of words (lug nuts) along with the one about black caulk and white caulk.
3 hours of work is 44 dollars for this gentleman. He clearly doesn’t make that much money. Being poor is expensive and I feel for him. Sometimes the judge (and the comments) are insensitive to the plight of others
At first the plaintiff is likable and no way did he loosen the lug nuts however the $511 he sought made me like him less. He wanted extra money for things he's not due plus he had been driving around with dangerously damaged tires. The Judge doesn't reward greed. The litigants each receive an "appearance fee" of $300 so the plaintiff did very well.
Cars come with a jack and lug wrench. He could have tighten the lug and borrowed a lug bolt from other wheels to get him back to dealer.
it happened in the 1960s to my father, he had new tyres put on, and later that day think 3 of the nuts had come out on one of the rims, , those years most cars had five nuts, so all he did was take one from the other 3 rims and put them on the lost ones, and bob was your uncle,
Alll that for 40 bucks 😂😂😂C Mon mayne !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You could tell that JM wasn't even listening to the Plaintiff. I heard him clearly say, he was already out a half day's pay being at the shop at 9:30 because he starts at 6am. By the time he's leaving the tire shop at 1pm, his work day is over. Then if you weren't sure that she wasn't listening. Her backup assumption that he could have went & filed another day. Why would he miss another day's pay to go file, he had already missed that whole day of pay already? He went & filed that day because he couldn't afford to miss ANOTHER day!
Most schools are closed on the weekends. Most tire shops are open on the weekends. I think that was JM's point. He didn't HAVE TO choose a work day to go in.
@@GrettaGouchie JM needs to try to live 1 day in his life & see if she would still be that snarky
Did I hear right? $8 whole dollars? EIGHT? oh! For the lug nut. LOL. I am like a TIRE?
This man does not have a Wife. Maybe a wife in Atlanta
😂y’all so mean, poor guy
Lug nuts are NOT supposed to fall off with ANY sort of ease!!! I know nothing about mechanics AND EVEN I KNOW THAT!!!
A school safety officer who doesn't care about the innocent lives on the roads as he's driving the dangerous car. He has no business having the children's lives in his hands as he's shown a lack of personal responsibility.
they’ll hire anybody to install tires when no real skills are needed..it’s good practice to always double check the work
I think the judge overestimates people’s work ethic…anyone in management knows the lengths some people go to to avoid work
The lug nuts he.s nuts . The plantiff try to get a full pay day 😮
He came to court and only got $44. 😂😂😂
For three hours of work 😂
So you went to court just to let everyone know what you earn!! Man O Man!! Good luck to you brother
Not sure how a grown ass man can be driving around without a lug nut wrench in his car.
Happened to me decades ago, but luckily just had to tighten them.
Do these defendants really believe he loosened his own lug nuts? 😂 They know they didn't torque them to spec.
3:10 Usually a “little shimmy” feeling from a car can mean a tire is off balance, or the tire is loose. Who doesn’t carry a crow bar in their car, or basic tools?
Aqua guy gave himself up “we bought an impact gun that rare- it never happens”
If he hadn’t asked for free tires I might believe the shop was at fault. But since he wanted the lugs and the cost of his tires to be paid for it’s possible he loosened them on his own to initiate a lawsuit. What grown man doesn’t know how to tighten a lug nut? A five yr old could figure that out. He was trying to scam.
The problem is it's super hard to loosen machine tightened lug nuts. Which is the reason that machine is used.
I'm with you, asking for the money back on the tires and causing a scene at the tire shop. 500 is a lot of money to a opportunist, he tried it and got $44.
@@panamafernandez4641 that can certainly be true
something wrong with that case.
the guy is driving around on tires so bad that the belts are exposed and he's worried about matching lug nuts.
$187 for lug nuts????
Where can you buy 2 new tires for $80.????
who doesn't have a lug wrench in their car?
What tire shop doesn't have spare lug nuts kicking around?
Why would it take 3 hours to put a couple of lug nuts on?
Why is he driving a car with loose and missing lug nuts?
Anybody else did the math to see how much he makes an hour? 🤣🤣🤣
He's a broke scammer for sure.
IMMEDIATELY 😂
Me😂
The guy in the teall shirt is smokin hot
Agreed I’d take the other defendant tho ❤
The plaintiff is shady
The two who were well-dressed took the proceedings seriously
I had wires coming from my tires in the past. I use to buy used tires when i was short on cash.
A man that can't tighten a lug nut is just sad.
He felt a vibration and just kept on driving. Thank God he made it to the shop and they made it right. However that wasn't good enough, he wanted free tires.
What happened to court is for righting wrongs, not a bonanza? She just made the cash register ring for him lol.
Common sense would have allowed the plaintiff to make so many other better decisions than the ones he made lug nuts excluded.
The plaintiff is a crazy and really trying to come up on the people’s court!! Lol!!
The fact that all 5 lug nuts were loose sounds shady.
A safety officer driving on tires like that hmm
Is that a rosary around his neck???
I don't know why he even took his case to this Judges court she can be so out of touch and very bias with certain cases. $44 dollars is a slap in the face she really agreed with the defendants.
Never go to that shop
This is exactly why I never trust a shop to install my wheels, impact guns are not what you need, they need to be torqued properly and then retorqued after the car is driven a bit
Safety office how ironic
First , the tires were beyond bad at least 2k miles (minimum) ago. If he works for the school system (which I do) he gets paid monthly. **Correction: unless he's paid as a sub, then it might be bimonthly**
Even driving from work to school & home in Atl could put him close to that in one month. BUT there is public transportation more than not. Even in surrounding suburbs.
And if he has to be to work that early, he's at the high school level. Our high schools employ minimum 500 staff, ALL staff. Custodians & cafeteria workers get in at the same time 6am. We have 10 custodians & 15 cafeteria & I'm at one of the smaller elementary schools. So you know that means there are at least twice as many of each at the high school level. Not ONE person was available? And that means that there are at least 50 people he could ask to bum a ride with. Just need to put it out there.
Years ago, a young mother who went to our church was driving on bald tires (& this case goes to show that it is not necessarily just women who don't pay attention to their vehicles).
She was driving w her daughter and niece. Car hydroplaned, crashed, ejected her niece, daughter died in the car fire. It was all over the news for months.
Few years later, the grandmother (paternal) tried to sue her (the mother) for wrongful death of the granddaughter. As if losing your only child, the child of that mother, wasn't torture enough.
Judge dismissed it.
I've been in a situation where my former spouse actually would NOT take the car even to get used tires (which is what this guy did because new tires on any Volvo would be more than he paid)
Anyway, I literally was on tread and the air seeeped out. Called spouse (only because I was in a dress that day. Dad had taught me how to change oil & tires before I even got my license when I was 14. Then I worked for 4 years at a Cadillac dealership in the service Dept thru hs & jr. college).
Spouse wouldn't pick up. So I put a sweatshirt on upside down over my legs, changed it. Got home. Filed for dv a few months later. (This was the pinnacle of stupid isht that had befn piling up over the years.)
So I got rid of two guzzlers, one was a gas guzzler, the other was a sanity guzzler!
I've maintained all my subsequent vehicles top notch. But it's just my automatic habit to look at my fellow teachers' cars when I pull into the lot & I hate to see worn & bald tires & if I mention it, they just say, 'Oh, my husband will take care of it.' Then why are they bald?🙄
I'm on the side of the defendants, the plaintiff didn't care that he was driving on such bald tyres that wires were exposed, but now suddenly claims that his new tyres weren't screwed on properly so demands the defendants to refund his tyres and refund the extra lug nuts. Sounds like a scam to me, it's not like the tyres came off while he was driving, supposedly he continued to drive around even with loose lug nuts. I don't believe the plaintiff at all. The judge didn't ask the plaintiff for any proof of what he was claiming. He should not have been awarded anything...
*tires
He must’ve didn’t have his impact on the highest setting for them to walk off
every car comes with a lug wrench and a jack simply take one nut from the other 3 wheels, not too bright driving on one lug nut. How is it that a grown man has no idea how to work his nuts?
I was looking for this response. I could change my own tire when I was in my early 20's.
You don’t use an impact gun to tighten lug nuts, you use a torque wrench
Hes a School Safety Officer, yet, he drives as unsafely as possible. Wow!
You are not supposed to tighten lug nuts with an impact gun. It's gotta be torqued to spec with a torque wrench.
I don't think the lug nuts were ever there.
Being Lugs Nuts 😂😂🎉😂😂
I hate gauged ears.
It's the case of "You're a real nut job". 😂
Knowingly driving on tires in that shape is inexcusable!! He could have seriously injured or ended the lives of innocent motorists.
I could have sent him the $40 for all that !!! Are you serious smh ! I’m pretty sure the gas, the cost of the flight, to get to court, lunch dinner hotel stay? the court case for $44 😮
the plaintiff should of also made sure that the lugs were on before he left
I love Judge but sometimes she’s a little inconsiderate and not understanding of people who fall of hard times with financial issues
I’m really concerned about how many people abdicate their agency and interchangeably use the phases“I had to” versus “I chose to”.
Thats means they are being accountable! No!!!!!
Always keep your AAA current. They will save your a**.
missed opportunity saying they will save your aaa hehe
6:56 they over torqued the lug nuts and pulled them threw the hub! They seem like a shady place so probably just impacts the nut on not checking if it’s torqued to the required level! They are definitely at fault and playing completely stupid! Anyone that has changed a tire knows this and they claim to have 9 years experience between the two of them? 😂😂😂
So he couldn’t take a one lug nut off of the other three tires so that he drive the car to the shop!!
If the Judge had believed Plaintiff story he would have been awarded a tidy amount, paying for his tyres etc. It’s very suspicious that anyone would be driving around on an obviously loose lug nuts.
Side note: the plaintiffs skin is BEAUTIFUL!
I wonder if this tire shop had anything to do with tightening the door plug bolts on that Alaska Airlines 737-9 Max?
Seriously, the tire shop obviously didn't torque down the lug nuts to factory specs like they should've. However, Mr. School Safety Officer, the plaintiff is an idiot! Once he noticed the lug nut issue, should've parked the car and made the shop come take care of the problem on the spot or at least have the car towed in for safety reasons.
He is irresponsible as heck to drive like that but went to file a lawsuit immediately. People and their priorities. I’m sorry but as a grown man and you someone husband you need to have sufficient funds for tires. For the tires to get that bad they had to be almost a decade old that’s trifling. Tires last like 5 years and then you can still run them down another year after that. Ain’t no excuses for the wires to be out to the point where the police stopped you that’s trifling, lazy, childish, and absurd.
Thank you! Walmart has less expensive tires. Buy two at a time, just figure something out instead slacking. Somebody said the plaintiff man card is revoked, I agree.