good day everyone I was born and raised in Detroit growing up there I saw people like me running things this is a courtroom not a circus so we going to Cal them down I'm sorry what I found there was a passion that I didn't know existed this is the bottom line I'm excited to freef fall into the Limitless possibilities with we the people so many are fearful of the law they think it's something that works against them I think you need to begin to accept responsibility for your mistakes we are the people sha Carroll claims
his roommate threw his pet tarantula against the wall which ended his best friend's life all right Brad Lopez says when he took a selfie with the spider the arachnid bid him Mr Lopez is counters suing for $1,200 court is now in session the honorable Judge Lauren Lake presid residing you may be seated hello your honor hello Sean good day everyone this is the case of Carol versus Lopez Mr Carol you are suing Mr Lopez for $700 for harming your pet is that correct yes and Mr Lopez you say that the plaintiff gave permission and you're
counter suing for $1,200 in medical expenses is that correct that's correct your honor all right I'll start with you the plaintiff Mr Carol what brings you here today they may start from the beginning this was about nine months ago when we first met and I placed I was looking for a roommate okay I'm kind of I live by myself it helped pay the bills and have somebody a companion I don't have many friends so would be have somebody to talk to so I put an ad out on Facebook Marketplace so Lopez here had responded to
that ad I showed him the apartment he saw the his bedroom it's a two-bedroom two B apartment details on the rent would be 1,000 a month we agreed we had a verbal agree agement on the rent 1,000 a month and everything was fine after about a month he noticed a that I had a he happened to go into my room for whatever reason or saw my in my door that there was an enclosure and wanted to know more about that that was my pet tarantula sassr SAS sasas that is her name yes she is interesting
name how' you get that name for a tarantula you know they could be a little sassy but this is somebody this is my pet I've had her 11 years this was somebody I could confide in it was my personal friend as well as my pet so when you showed him the apartment originally and he decided to move in you never gave him any indication of what your personal space looked like there was no reason to because this is my personal space I just as I didn't show him the tarantula I did not show him tell
him about my computer that was on my desk or what books are on my bookshelf this is a room that would be for that's my personal room if I'm moving into an apartment with somebody and they have a t I want to know but that's just me Mr Lopez so you responded to the ad so when he showed you the place was it very odd to you that he didn't show you like and this is my room it was odd um cuz he didn't not mention nothing else he just said thousand for the room I
was coming from Nevada he just showed me the room that was it so but I was desperate um I needed to have somewhere to live and so I just took it I didn't question it after until one day that I was just passing by the room and his room was his room door was open okay it was dark and the only light that was in it is into this cage um that was be me light on on that cage um I I don't know what it was and so I told him like hey what do
you have in your room and he told me like oh it's a it's a tarantula creature whatever mhm and I told him there there's no he he said no pets allow I want to have like a little dog just a little one nothing crazy he said no pets allowed so I confronted him about that that creature arachnid how did we get hurt why are we here well after a month and when he first saw it he kept asking me questions wanted to know more about it he kept nagging me I want to see it I
want to see it I want to see it so finally I said okay I will let you see it and I brought him into the room I opened up the enclosure and he wanted to take a picture he took out his phone he took a picture of it and then he said oh can I hold it can I hold it and I kept telling him no I don't think get a good idea they're venomous they won't bite unless they're scared but if you don't hold it right he kept going oh please I want to hold
it I want to hold it I want to hold it please please please so I said okay fine I had him put out his hand I gently nudged her so that she would crawl into his hand so that he could hold her and he decided Hey look it's a tarantula and picked up and put it on his shoulder it bit me on her and of course it did because you scared her all right you got bit what I warned you I had here I was going to take a quick quick selfie until didn't say Mr
Carol how about if I put the tarantula on my shoulder I really want to get a picture of it on my shoulder did you say that before you did it I I didn't ask him you just went from holding the hand open like this to just slowly cuz it was it was was that slowly it was calm and I was just slowly putting on my neck until and I was have my phone ready to take a selfie and during this slow process process you never said don't do that coming up but did you say it
I just said did you say it I was in shock to be honest I was in absolute shock that he would do that and you just stood like this and later I found out while she was babysitting for me that she was actually sleeping with my boyfriend at the time oh yeah rabbit just came out the hat right quickly if you'll be in the Los Angeles area area and want to bring your case to court call 18885526638 [Music] then I'm going to move it to my shoulder let's see if you have time enough to say
don't do that okay ready 3 2 1 don't you do that by the time you said that it was already on your shoulder but did you say it I just said did you say it I was in shock to be honest I was in absolute shock that he would do that and you just stood like this I was like what are you doing I didn't say stop I just actually literally said what are you doing that's not what you would say about a tarantula it's the first thing that came to my mind I don't know
what to say I was I was I told him very clearly did you Gest did you try to get the tarantula off his shoulder or you just watched him do it I watched it happen and it just happened so fast and as soon as he put it on his shoulder that's when she bit him and that's when he took the tarantula and slammed it against the wall and I'm watching this po tarantula this tarantula don't want to be bothered with either one of you it would been better really doesn't don't want to be bothered no
they they don't they be left feel like being nobody science project I wish I it was left in the cage I only took it out so that for his benefit to see him but you gave the permission you know how when people want to pet the snake they always give you very specific instructions on how you are to stand and what you are supposed to do as the snake comes on you right yes hon did you give any of those instructions hon I told what did you say I told him to hold his hand out
steady and not to move not to make any sudden movements and just to hold it it was only so that he took it on himself and tried to put it on the shoulder for the picture yes and that's when you went in a shock yes okay did anybody bring any evidence I did your honor let me see it please thank you mhm and I have a copy of you brought evidence that shows I have the inv these are your bills the bill from your bite for $1,200 which is what you're suing for all right so
when you went to the hospital you had to get BL you had to have a x-ray EKG my Lord it was painful stuff your honor your emergency room visit Mr Carol you have a receipt for that was the price that I had paid for sassa 11 years ago sassa died because of this yes like I said his reaction was to grab it off his shoulder and slam it against the wall I watch I was almost watch like watching it in slow motion I saw her and this is a picture of sass on your arm yes
your honor that's that is her and the Lord you see how intimidating I can't rep I cannot rep I can get another TR I cannot replace sasas 11 years I've this is somebody I was able to talk to come at the end of the day come into my room and let out all my anything that I wanted to she would listen she unlike another person who would might talk back or give me advice on unsolicited all she did was stay in her cage and listen and that's she wanted to do stay in her cage and
just listen but you decided that you were going to allow your roommate an opportunity to hold her and this is is what I'm thinking about in this moment you knew because you stated it in court that when the tarantula feels fear that the tantula could potentially bite we can't even say for certain that the passing of the tarantula from one hand to the next could have been something that made the tarantula feel fear I don't believe it would have the honor well of course you don't because it was it was a gentle n you don't
just like everybody at the dog park who says they're dog doesn't bite and everybody that has an animal that says their animal is gentle we all want to believe that you don't want trying to put it on your shoulder and take a picture doing team too much and then got bit because of it so your counter claim is dismissed as for you Mr Carol now uh sassa is dead I'm sick of both of y'all I'mma tell you the truth you made a choice to take pet out of the place where you know it is safe
you also made the decision to allow someone else to hold it that you trusted would do exactly what you said I do believe you said just hold her in your hand like this in the moment that Mr Lopez changed the position of the animal I do believe he set into motion the circumstances which caused his bite and unfortunately sassr to be killed with that said there is some responsibility you bear in this I would rather you had an opportunity to say don't do that and you didn't you just watched it in shock for that reason
I'm going to give you half of what you're asking for a judgment for the plan of for $350 I hope the next time you get a pet of this nature just keep it to yourself court is a Jour that's your honor all right judge lake has ruled in favor of the plaintiff the defendant owes $350 I never told you to do that if you had asked me I would have told you straight out that's a bad idea and I would not have let you do it if I knew you were going to that I wouldn't
even to let you hold her I don't want to ever see you again I wish you the best of luck and wherever you're going to live next stay away from me coming up his younger sister is her best friend so um his younger sister is her best friend okay I got that in my mind now and originally Thomas was actually my babysitter for lack of a better word cuz um oh wait a minute it's getting Messier yeah you're watching we the people with judge Lauren Lake dney Lewis claims she wasn't paid for her babysitting Services
after she was accused of kissing her employer's boyfriend Sunshine Ellis says Miss Lewis abruptly quit after she was confronted about her cheating ways good day everyone good day this is the case of Lewis versus Ellis Miss Lewis you are suing Miss Ellis for $600 for unpaid wages is that correct yes yes correct your honor all right and Miss Ellis you say that you don't owe the plane of anything correct your honor all right so what kind of job was this Miss Lewis yes G this was a babysitting job I was hired to babysit for Miss
Sunshine here and her two children I was going to be working up to 20 hours a week and the agreement was our contract $400 for a week of babysitting that was what we agreed upon and now she refuses to pay me for my unpaid wages now and I deserve to be paid I'm entitled to that money so why are you refusing to pay her uh Miss Ellis well what she so conveniently left out is that I found out while she was babysitting for me that she was actually sleeping with my boyfriend at the time oh
yeah rabbit just came out the hat right quickly so let's go back how did you find Miss Lewis as a babysitter did you know her already or were you referred I she was referred to me by my boyfriend at the time Tom thas oh yeah he uh he his younger sister is her best friend so um his younger sister is her best friend okay I got that in my mind now and originally Thomas was actually my babysitter for lack of a better word cuz um oh wait a minute it's getting Messier yeah coming up stuff
jumped up it was two whole weeks on the third week U Monday night I hear from my 5-year-old daughter I saw Thomas and Daphne kiss sing you're watching we the people with judge Lauren Lake we're back with the case of Dean Lewis who brought sunshine Ellis to court for unpaid babysitting fees you were dating Thomas mhm and you hired Miss Lewis to babysit well that's cuz Thomas decided to go back to school for nursing so you hire Miss Lewis how long was she working for you before stuff jumped off it was two whole weeks and
then on the third week U Monday night I hear from my 5-year-old daughter I saw Thomas and Daphne kissing and I asked her you know all the details how how did this happen she saw me kiss Thomas and she said oh I saw daany kiss Thomas too did you kiss Thomas in front of Miss Ellis's kids no we had exchanged a goodbye a hug and a kiss on the cheek nothing on the lips so it might have been misinterpreted so if your son saw that that was something else it was a goodbye with a kiss
on the cheek it was my daughter and she's seen many people say hi and bye to each other uh she specifically noticed a kiss between the two of you so I want to hear from the witness please stand up Thomas they talking about you you might as well get on in here so Thomas why is it that Miss Ellis's daughter says she saw you kissing the babyit well like daany had said I've seen her a couple times when I came home early and she was still babysitting so I let her leave when she when I
was saying bye I'm accustomed to a goodbye hug and a goodbye kiss on the cheek that doesn't sound crazy to me to say goodbye with a kiss on the cheek and the kid what she's five she saw a kiss and oh that must be a kiss like Mommy and Daddy kiss you know so miss uh Lewis did you quit or did you get fired no I quit your honor because I was not willing to stand for somebody who's gonna accuse me of sleeping with her boyfriend at the time when I've done nothing but take care
of these kids I mean we had set that it would be $400 for a week of up to 20 hours so that's $80 a day but if you if you say you're offended that she got upset over an accusation why are you quitting over an accusation but still wanting your money judge lakes's verdict When We the People returns you're watching we the people with judge Lauren Lake what I have here in front of me is a case of he say she say well actually it's she say she say um nobody has any camera footage nobody
has anything you don't have any proof she didn't have proof I'm not going to waste my time my tea is getting cold when you quit a job you can't necessarily expect to be paid the rest of what you're owed unless I can see that there is some behavior that goes above and beyond the bounds of decency what a reasonable person would do in the circumstances I do think that sleeping with somebody's boyfriend is a difficult accusation right to entertain especially when you say you weren't doing it right I don't have time to figure out who's
sleeping with who neither of you have offered any evidence I don't have time for that what I will say is that you quit the job when you quit the job you quit the money and so you work two days that week you are old for those two days $160 it is the Judgment of this court judgment for the plaintiff for $160 court is adjourned all right judge lake has ruled in favor of the plaintiff the defendant owes $160 did I cheat with Thomas no I did not you want to go on and think something else
that's on you honestly judge Lake knows what happened and whatever I'll give you the 160 [Music] this has been a production of Allan Media Group
