>> Announcer: Alcohol and anger
were a bad mix.
>> She just continued
to keep disrespecting me.
>> Announcer: Then this party
of four
became a battle between two.
>> And I'm like, "If you hit me,
I'm going to hit you
with this bottle."
He said, "That bottle
is not going to stop me."
I said, "My car will."
>> Judge Judy:
And then what happened?
>> She came back around
like she was going to hit me.
>> What are you hanging around
with this young people for?
>> Age ain't nothing
but a number.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah, I say that
all the time, but it's not true.
[ Chuckles ]
>> Announcer: "Judge Judy."
>> Judge Judy: Ms. Warr Cook,
it is your claim
that Mr. Owens vandalized
your car when he was drunk.
Mr. Owens says that
he was merely defending himself
because you were trying
to run him over with your car.
Mr. Owens, how do you know
the plaintiff?
>> Through a friend.
>> Judge Judy: Do you hang out
with the same people?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: How old
is your friend?
>> Late 50s, early 60s?
>> Judge Judy: How old are you?
>> I'm 42.
>> Judge Judy: Do you know
how old the plaintiff is?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: How old are you?
>> I'm 22.
>> Judge Judy: And is this also
a friend that you hang out with?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you know how old she is?
>> Mid-20s, I guess.
>> Judge Judy: How old are you?
>> I'm 27.
>> Judge Judy: Did you ever have
any negative interaction
with the plaintiff before
the date of this incident?
>> Not that I recall.
We're not really associates.
>> Judge Judy: This happened
on November the 3rd.
Had you been drinking?
>> No.
I don't drink.
>> Judge Judy: At all?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you want to tell me
what happened on November 3rd?
>> We were all hanging out.
>> Judge Judy: Where?
>> We were in her car,
and we was just driving.
>> Judge Judy:
How many people were in the car?
>> Us four.
>> Judge Judy: Who was driving?
>> She was.
>> Judge Judy:
Had she picked you up?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: At your home?
>> No, I believe
it was at a park maybe.
I can't really exactly recall
the details,
but, yeah, she picked us up.
>> Judge Judy: Picked who up?
>> She picked me up, us three,
me, Reginald and Laura.
I believe so.
I can't really recall the exact
details of it, but I believe...
>> Judge Judy:
Well, you should be able
to recall the details, sir.
You have a counterclaim,
and the counterclaim
is she tried to run you over.
If you can't recall
what happened that evening,
then it's going to be hard
for you to recall the details
of your counterclaim.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So I assume
that your faulty memory,
since it's not attributed
to drinking,
had to be attributed
to something else.
You don't now
where she picked you up.
>> We was at the...
>> Judge Judy: You don't know
exactly who was in the car.
>> I know exactly
who was in the car.
>> Judge Judy:
And then what happened?
>> We were driving.
I guess we were trying to figure
out where we were going to go
or what we were going
to get involved into that night.
>> Judge Judy: And...
>> And she was driving
very erratic, and I didn't feel
comfortable being in the car.
>> Judge Judy: Go ahead.
>> And she was
driving very erratic.
I don't feel comfortable
in the car,
and she went to go get some gas,
and at the gas station,
she hit someone.
>> Judge Judy:
You mean their car or a person?
>> A car, she backed into a car,
and at that point,
I was just really uncomfortable
with being in the car,
so when I got the chance,
she had stopped,
and I got out of the car
and left the situation.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> I went to a park
where we usually hang out at.
>> Judge Judy: Is that the park
where she picked you up?
>> No, no, no.
This wasn't at the park
that she picked me up at, no.
This was at a different park.
>> Judge Judy: And you got
to that park on foot?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And...
>> And she came to the park.
>> Judge Judy: With the
three people in the car,
herself, your witness
and the other witness,
then there were three people
in the car.
Go ahead.
>> Yes.
As I...
>> Judge Judy:
Stop shaking your head.
It's annoying.
>> I'm sorry.
>> Judge Judy: It's annoying.
Then stop doing.
>> I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
>> When I had left them,
I called her phone.
Laura, I called her phone,
and when I called her phone,
she answered her phone,
and when she answered her phone,
I was wondering, kind of, like,
why she answered the phone,
but when she answered the phone,
she called me a [bleep].
She called me a homosexual
for some reason
just out the clear blue,
and I asked her why did
she disrespect me in that way.
We're not friends.
We're not associates.
I don't play with her
in that form or manner,
and she just continued
to keep disrespecting me,
so I hung up the phone,
and she came to the park
where I was at, I guess
to drop the passengers off,
and she
continued to disrespect me,
so I confronted her about it,
and I asked her, "Why are you
continuing to disrespect me?"
And she just kept getting loud
and loud, and I just wanted
to leave the situation alone,
so I walked off.
Me and her witness that she has
with her walked off,
and she jumped in her car.
I thought she was leaving,
but she came back around
like she was going to hit me.
When she came back
around sort of
like she was going to hit me,
she turned the car, and I
jumped and braced myself,
and I put my hands
down on her windshield.
Like, the car is coming to me,
and I jumped like this here,
and that's how her
windshield got cracked.
She was coming towards me
like she was going to hit me.
>> Judge Judy: Did you jump up
on the hood of the car?
Is that you got to her
windshield?
How do you
get to the windshield?
Unless you're coming from
the side, you have to put
your full body on the front end
of the car in order
to get to the windshield.
How did you do that?
>> As she was coming towards me,
she turned her car, and her car,
it was sliding towards me.
It was coming up towards me,
and I jumped on the windshield.
Like, she was coming,
and she turned...
>> Judge Judy: You jumped up
on just the windshield?
>> I just put my hands down and
braced myself on the windshield.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Very good.
Now I'll listen to your story.