editorializing, getting into
your car was correct, correct?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Putting on your
seat belt was correct.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Correct.
I assume the key -- If you were
just dropping off and talking to
a friend, maybe you left the key
in the ignition.
If you didn't, you had to put
the key in the ignition, start
the car, put it in gear, and
pull out of the parking space.
He's down the block already,
'cause he didn't stop.
He just turned around, cursed
you, and kept moving.
So now you're chasing him.
Now you're stopped at a light.
He's in the bike lane, according
to you.
He's stopped at a red light, not
pulled over to the side of the
road.
Stopped at a red light, in the
drive-through lane.
And he gets out of the car to
have this discussion.
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Wackadoodle.
Frightening. Now, have I set the
scene for you?
>> Byrd: Yes. Thank you.
>> Judge Judy: Now we're out of
the car.
He's on his bike.
Wackadoodle got out of the
driver's seat of his car, left
the car, maybe the car door
open.
Maybe he closed the door of the
car.
Gets out of his car.
Car's maybe behind him.
They may not be behind him.
According to you, you didn't
pull over.
You said, "We were both stopped
at a red light," right?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Now you can tell
me what happened.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: I'm telling you
where we are.
>> Your Honor --
>> Judge Judy: We're at the red
light.
>> We didn't address the
comments that he made --
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
He called your mother, your
sister, your brother, your best
friend, and you a lowlife,
slimy, sleazy, cursed at you,
did anything he want, and then
he was on his way.
And I'm sure --
>> He was a couple hundred feet
before I even got to the car.
There was no threat in any way.
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
>> Okay. We're just moving on.
>> Judge Judy: It doesn't
matter.
>> Moving on.
>> Judge Judy: It doesn't
matter.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: Sticks and stones
will break my bones, but names
will never hurt me.
That's what I grew up listening
to.
I assume, if you grew up in the
same kind of household, that's
what you grew up listening to.
Sticks and stones will break my
bones, but names will never hurt
me.
Whatever it is, the threat was
gone.
The sting may have remained of
his nasty words, but then it
escalated.
So all I'm interested in -- I am
saying, in my head, that he said
a lot more to you than a snide
"thanks."
I don't care.
We are stopped at a red light,
after you chased his car.
Your car is in a lane where cars
are driving.
You get out of your car --
either you leave your door open
or closed -- to confront the
bicyclist.
That's where we are.
Pick it up.>> Judge Judy: Don'ty
pictures.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: I don't want to
see a picture.
>> Okay. From the incident with
the door to this intersection
was -- it's 1.3 miles.
In that distance, Mr. Hope cut
me off six times, and he was
screaming --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: He was acting
like a wackadoodle.
>> Cutting in and out of the
bike lane and --
>> Judge Judy: Pick up when he
got out of the car.
>> Okay --
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: He chased you to
confront you.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: There's no
question that he chased you to
confront you.
Now he's confronted you.
That's what we're interested in.
I know -- Listen to me.
Mr. Connolly...
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: ...I know what's
in his head.
What's in his head is -- he's
seething.
Otherwise, he's psychotic.
You haven't been psychiatrically
hospitalized in the last
six months, have you?
>> No. Never.
>> Judge Judy: So he was
furious.
>> Yes,.
>> Judge Judy: Because,
otherwise, you don't get out of
a car in the middle of the road
to confront a bicyclist over
cursing you a mile down the
road.
Half a mile down the road.
A quarter of a mile down the
road.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: What happened