Electricity Scam Goes Haywire | Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Donna admits her son scammed the electric company, so why is she suing Jessica and Darren for unpaid electric bills?
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Plaintiff loses her case and gets exposed as a corrupt landlord and she’s doing a victory lap 😂 She is NUTS
I think she washed her brain cells out with that bottle of hair dye. She’ll never get them back, you know!
LOL.
THAT PART 🗣🗣🗣
Right?!
NUTS!!!!!!!!
Plaintiff: "I hope they've learned a lesson from this"
Ma'am, you've shown your son to be a thief, and yourself to be a liar; did YOU learn a lesson from this?!
I seriously doubt it😅😂😂
Clearly she thinks there’s no lesson for her and her son it’s someone else’s problem smh
🤦♀️ she took all accountability from her sons wrong doing with her own denial. I feel worried for whomever rents next
man to live in a place and not pay electric for 2 years would be a dream
If your on section 8 it happens
Shit... that'd be $250 and up I'd save, a month 🎉
I did that. Loved it. My landlord didn’t charge me extra for the solar panels. Got free electric and got a rebate check from the electric company for all of the generated power
I used to live in a place where it states on the lease that the landlord is responsible for up to $200 in electricity every month. Anything passed that, i payed. So i never had an electric bill while i lived there
Hell yeah 💯
My guess is this. Plaintiff tried to swindle the electric company, covered her base with the tenants not getting suspicious by giving them the new lease, but used a different signature in case she got caught, to sue them for the money.
When JJ says “ will you show this to the plaintiff please?” you know it’s gonna get good and that someone is lying.
P is caught with her knickers down around her ankles
If her son rigged the electrics illegally, she is suing the wrong people🙄
He should also have been arrested and charged.
@@grumpyoldlady_rantsThat would usually be the power company. However since the landlord paid the bill they may not care.
They both are at fault because they would’ve known electricity was rich if they had attempted to put it in their name
She's obviously highly narcissistic and thinks that her son can do no wrong
How does the plaintiff deny her own signature before a judge. She shows herself and her son to be dishonest. Looks like she has not learnt her lesson and is arrogant and delusional
It's like she was prepared for it.
You must be a psychiatrist.
I don't know if it is her signature, only if she deliberately signed incorrectly. Not only because of the handwriting, I also write different handwriting in different fonts, but because her last name contains "u" and not "o".
The plaintiff's facial reactions are hilarious and that hairstyle is just criminal😂
She looks like the plaintiff from the very old JJ episode where the woman was being overly dramatic screaming” hey! Hey! The babies!! THE-BABIES!!!”
😂@@GrooveYouVerse
😂😂
Hairstyle incriminates her 😆
It's her hair. Fine and frizzy and curly. There's not much you can do with hair like that. And it's not about her looks.
Plaintiff's expression when Judge Judy says that her son should be arrested for theft is very telling. At the very least it shows that she doesn't think her son did anything wrong, but it also opens the possibility that she knew all along what her son was doing.
I couldn't have said it any better myself.
"I hope they learned their lesson" uh, you lost and came out looking like a crook. Was she in the courtroom at all?! 😂😂😂
Stupid people like to double down when they get caught doing something wrong. She knows she looks like a crook and has a crook for a son. She's just trying to save face
@Jewlii123 think she's in another galaxy. Nut job!
In spirit...😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Plantif is just plain evil. That smile is demented.
Get over it.
@@stratfordbaby huh?
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@@nryanmusic it's prob the creepy troll-faced plaintiff. She's all over the comment section
I felt that too. She thought she was going to walk out of there with a nice big cheque.
The Defendant all smiles after she lost. What a nut job. "Don't trust People" How about starting with your son who rigged the electricity. Just wow!!
Plaintiff but yeah
If her son did that, what else has he done that she didn't find out yet?
Or she did find out but did nothing about it
She knew the entire time
@@MoniquaWilliamsfacts - she evicted him after all 😂
She was probably complicit.
The grinning plaintiff is nuts. The electric company and the plaintiff should be going after her son.
I don't understand how to called for trash services yet never called for electricity... because they were getting it free so they didn't bother to ask. They prob knew it was rigged and rode it. Crazy
They paid for exactly what they were obligated to pay for.
i lived in a place with electric included and had to have cable/internet in my own name, so it isn’t an inconceivable situation
Interesting, because every landlord I've ever had has told me the same thing, I am responsible to get the utilities turned over to my name. One or two even asked me to send confirmation from the company before they gave me the keys. These tenants knew they signed a lease that said they were responsible for utilities and they knew they werent paying any. I dont believe they were so innocent.
THIS comment right here!! ✔
Plaintiff is a bully. Like JJ said she should be suing her son. Better yet the utility company should have the thief son investigated and possibly arrested.
Any time the landlord handwrites something onto the lease, they are supposed to have the tenant initial it.
The day the defendants moved in the utilities should have been put in their name. The electric company would have seen that the meter was rigged. You move into a rental, live there 2 years, and never wonder why you never got an electric bill? The plaintiff's son may have rigged the electric, but the defendants went along with it for 2 years. The plaintiff should have been more diligent, making sure the utilities were taken out of her name the day the defendants moved in.
They had a lease stating they were never responsible for the electricity so it was null and void anyways
But there wasn't anything (typed or handwritten) that stated that the defendants were responsible for the electricity. Also, verbal agreements don't cut it. If it's not in a written agreement, then it doesn't exist, period.
the lease jj saw didn't say that and in Part 1 they agreed that they were responsible for the utiltites.@@AdoreiMandy
Unless there is a separate meter, which is the responsibility of the property owner, the cost of the power would be part of the rent as there is no way to track usage. The landlady’s failure to manage her own property is all on her. The terms are set forth in the written lease. Those are the only conditions that apply. The same applies with water usage, gas and cable. No separate connections, that falls on the property owner who decides to rent. No tenant has to go out of their way to request a separate meter if the owner hasn’t installed it.
@@jdsiv3 it did. The defendants presented that lease with her signature and compared it to the first lease and the signatures were the same. The one the plaintiff presented supposedly saying they were responsible had a totally different signature but because judge Judy already told the plaintiff numerous times she wasn’t going to give her any money she didn’t really spend much time on the forgery
The plaintiff's signatures, as presented by the defendant, for the two documents look exactly alike. I smell a forgery. This whole case is a mess
Literally!!! She just wanted someone to pay for the hefty electricity that her son rigged
but to be fair the defendants were the ones who benefitted from the rigged electrical, not the plaintiff. They are as shady as the scummy son@@AdoreiMandy
@@jdsiv3They are not shady if they had nothing to do with it.
I compared them side by side and the plaintiff's (Donna's) signature is exactly 100% the same, but the defendant's (Jessica's) is slightly different.
@@iykeharrison9161 if you're living somewhere and lease states you're responsible for utilities and you've paid $0 for electric then you KNOW something isn't right. After a month or two they should've have been questioning either the landlord or the electric company. Either the landlady is an idiot for not verifying the tenants had the electric in their name or her and the tenants were in on scamming the electric company together. The tenants definitely knew from the lease they were responsible for utilities and didn't question not having paid for 2 years. It only became an issue because electric company finally busted them.
If I am a renter, I know to call the electric company and get it put in my name. So I have to wonder if the tenants knew it was rigged? If so, that makes them liable too. On the same hand, the owner knew and probably didn't want them to call the electric company because that would expose her son and herself.
That couple knew they were getting free electricity for 2 years and said nothing. They took advantage. Both parties were wrong.
For sure!!!
How if it wasn't written into their lease? That's the landlords responsibility. She drew up the contract initially. Then tries to take them to court for the money and also exposed her son and herself as dishonest and her son as criminal. Is exposing yourself or your son like this worth it?
Her facial expressions say everything you need to know.
I think it's so idiotic that the defendants never even asked about electric. That's literally my first question when I sign a lease.
I thought they said they did ask but that a bill never came. Like JJ said how can they pay something without knowing how much
On top of it they had a lease stating they weren’t responsible for electric so why be concerned with something that’s not your responsibility.
@@RenRen0127 It's called, YOU ASK. You don't sit on your thumb. You call the landlady and ask for the damned bill!
I'd tend to agree, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility to chase after their own landlord.
Exactly. If you don't have the bill, you call the landlady and ask for the bill.
Why is the plantiff smiling at the end when the tape is playing?! wtf lol
The plaintiff looks very disturbed.... I think there's something loose upstairs shaking around
Hair dye … she fried her brain cells with the stuff
Tenants are no saints
Exactly. But 99% of trolls here will say that the plaintiff is the devil incarnate.
They're dishonest. If they knew they had to pay a certain bill but they never saw it, they should have said something. They benefited from the landlords sons crime.
@@abbiereynolds8016how so? They have a lease that says the utilities are included in their rent with the exception of the garbage removal
@@abbiereynolds8016 If the electricity is on, why should they think that they need to do anything? And gee, it never went off. What would you think?
Why did the plaintiff think this was funny. “Hope they learned a lesson from this.” What?! Lady you tried to stiff them with your son’s bill! As a result YOU caused all of the problems. They were “Excellent tenants.” YOU were a horrible land lady. Sheesh 🙄
It wasn’t the son’s bills. It was THEIR bills. They got free electricity for two years. Just because they’re not legally responsible doesn’t mean they’re not morally yucky.
Ugh the plaintiff is insufferable
Those tenants KNEW what was going on.
I was on the defendants side until they filed that ridiculous counter claim. You got free electricity for two years, be happy and move on. I don't believe the landlord agreed to pay the electricity though. Why would any landlord do that in today's rental market?
Three freezers? Do you know how much electricity they use. I remember back in the days if you were renting you were not allowed to even have a freezer.
I'm impressed with defendants. The signature thing was quite slick.
They lived there for two years and never questioned why there is no utility bill🤣🤣
I think there was an agreement saying that the owner of the house (the plaintiff) was meant to pay the utility bills? But if not, and they were supposed to get the bills, I wonder if they brought it up multiple times and the plaintiff just ignored them? I've had landlords ignore an issue to the point that it backfired on them. Had a cheap landlord that refused to replace a broken fridge until mould started growing on the floor boards and on the wall.
Tried to sue the people living there after my friends and I moved out. Heard he was laughed out of the courtroom.
The only one that had power in this case was Judge Judy.
We're really amping up these shocking puns, eh?
Pow pow power thieves!
🔥 🔥
I literally laughed out loud. Good one!
Hahahah
Idk why but when the plaintiff laughs she reminds me of the people from Whoville. 😂😂
She looks ditzy
I don't think the plaintiff understands what happened. She smiles and laughs at the wrong timed and seems to think she won.
She didn’t raise an honest son, she herself is not honest, and proved to everyone that she is a bad parent and landlord. Why is she the one trying to take a victory lap? She is crazy and demented.
I’m actually interested in the signatures two match and one doesn’t…🧐
The signature on that second lease is copy and pasted. The stray inkmarks are the same and everything.
Exactly!! I noticed that too
Good point. They both have the exact same placement on the bottom line.
right - the defendants are scammers
that’s what i thought too! it was so obviously fake. I think they probably tried to play it off with her signature because sort of identical as well.
Smiling faces sometimes
Pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within
the landlord is creepy...
Dang, that smiling of the plaintiff or a smirk😅just killing me....scary lady to deal with...look crazy to me.
Both are scammers. Did the tenants really think it was normal never to get an electric bill?
I agree
Exactly. You don't go TWO YEARS with no bill. You call and ask her for the damned bill.
Plaintiff is a nut case.
I wonder if that crooked landlady's son has inherited her extremely annoying smirk.
Plaintiff should be the one learning a lesson, she lost, LOL
“ I hope they learned a lesson from this” girl you lost 😭😭
That Plaintiff has the most inappropriate smile I've seen, for 30 years.
I don't get the plaintiff. If she thinks the tenants haven't been paying electricity bills they should have, why didn't she notice after a couple of months and question the tenants? How do you let a tenant get away with 2 year's worth of unpaid electricity bills before you decide to sue them?
They're both scammers
Why is she laughing so much at the end and is happy about about the conclusion of the case? She lost and her son has to pay the bill, which we know won’t happen, so now she has to pay the 5K electric bill.
As someone who used to work at the utility company, I’m willing to bet that the electric bill included some serious fees for tampering with the service/ equipment, and those fees are definitely on the plaintiff and her son.
2:05-2:07
the husband whispers who signed it ?
The wife said “she did” 🤣
‼️Both are fraudulent 😅
If you live somewhere, and the electricity bill never comes. You call.
That Landlord is plain weird. She went in there smug and her last words were smug. That she hopes the defendants learned a lesson. What’s the lesson?
So it doesn’t matter what her son did, or whatever others believe, she’s in the right. She really thought she was going to get a payday. I wonder if she took her son to court over the money.
If I didn't get an electric bill for months, i wouldn't ignore that.. I'd figure something was fishy
Weird case to be honest. At least someone (guess plaintiff) is for sure lying… I would have awarded some to the defendants… having said that they lived there pretty cheap if no utilities bills ever paid…
There is something seriously wrong with plaintiff.
If the son hadn't rigged the electric, I think JJ would have found the defendants negligent for not setting up/inquiring on the bills.
Then the plaintiff and the defendant are both negligent because the plaintiff didn’t inquire after she evicted her son. Landlords generally switch service into their own names after a tenant moves out and before the new one moves in because they need services in order to clean and whatever to get the place ready. Also in the updated lease she says electricity is included so I don’t believe they were ever supposed to pay this.
Peach perm and manic grin Karen!
The plaintiff’s smile 😂
Disturbing
What’s with the landlord grinning and grimacing? She refuses to blame her son. I hope she never rents again.
As an electrician I can tell that sometimes there is a shut off switch ahead of the electric meter. The son would have disconnected the wires from the switch to the electric meter. He would have installed new wires from the shut off switch to the electric panel.
When the hydro company discovered this I am sure that they would have disconnected the electric service and had an electrician run new wires to the electrical panel. The electric meter would likely have been moved to outside the house. I wonder if the hydro company fined the homeowner for tampering with their meter. Maybe they even charged her an estimated bill for electrical usage. The electrical meter is the property of the hydro company. Only the hydro company can service the meter.
If it wasn’t rigged the electricity would have been shut off for non payment within a couple months and it would have been addressed then.
Long ago I lived in a duplex my neighbor used jumper cables to bypass the PG&E meter or to take juice from my side came home one day and the power was out seems he got the wires crossed and got zapped with major volts. The juice blew out his calve muscles from his ankle to his knee almost killed him. It also blew out the meters and cost the landlord $1,600.
Yikes 😫 I hope he learned from his error.......
@@trinity72gp He was a meth head back then last I saw him he was sober and a church goer
@@markbrandon7359... Perhaps he had a moment of clarity....
I am so irritated with the plaintiff's ridiculous case, but am also gobsmacked that the defendants would try to countersue when they got a free ride on electricity for 2 years (and it was probably pretty substantial since I recall her lamenting the spoilage of food for their SIX kids)
Plantiff is a total scammer!!!😖
So basically Judge Judy knows that because the defendants managed to slip through a loophole caused by the plaintiffs son, she sees the plaintiff and her son responsible for the bill. Genius! The defendants knew something was up with the electricity, but kept their mouth shut. Very smart but evil move 😂
And if the power went out, you should’ve called electric company and figured out why
I don't like the defendants, they obviously knew they were getting electricity for free. Why are they suing for 5k for?
The defendants should have won punitive damages on the counter claim just for the signature deception.
There's only one reason why you'd rig electricity and that's because you're using the flat as a growing room!
Momma cannot acceot that she raised a criminal. She probably kicked him out for being a freeloader who stiffed her for rent. If he was prepared to steal from her, what makes her think he wouldn't steal from the leci company or the neighbours or whatever supply he tapped in to. Delusional. With the defendants never getting a bill it was reasonable for them to then assume electricity was included especially as the hand-written notes in the lease only referred to refuse and septic tank.
Also, something dodgy about the plaintiff creating a new signature for JJs statement and her lease copy which bears no resemblance to the signature she was using prior to this issue manifesting. Maybe the son learned from the master. 🤔
I'm glad the defendant was called out for getting free electricity for 2 years. Yeah, it was a scam perpetrated by the plaintiff's son, but the defendant knew damn well that they were supposed to be paying for electricity. They chose to do nothing and not inquire as to why they were not receiving a bill. The old excuse of 'I didn't pay because I never received a bill' is NO excuse. The amount of $ they saved by not paying for electricity far outweighed anything they would have received in the countersuit.
One has to wonder why the electric company never went after the son. . . .at least get is royal arse in a prison cell if nothing else.
Wholeheartedly believe that she knew her son had rigged the electricity and only wants them to pay it because they got caught and now she wants to act like she doesn't know and they are responsible. I wonder why judge Judy didn't get her driver's license and compare the signatures like she normally does. I guarantee the two leases the defendant had would match the license.
Husband: who signed it?
I could hear the husband's heart beat from here when she said the signature isn't hers, for a second he thought they were going to lose the case,fearing his wife could have forged the plaintiff's signature.
This is so wrong. Do these fools think they can stay somewhere for two years with no utilities. I would have given the landlady something. Good grief.
Her son did something illegal. I'm glad the mother wasn't awarded any money. Well done JJ!!
"I don't need to be trusting people" said the scam artist
This woman shouldn't be a landlord. She's clearly a scammer, which is where her son learned it. Shameful.
Sounds like she committed fraud with the electric company and with HUD. I believe that is a Federal offense .
Thr pkantiff losing then acting like she won lmfao
🤪 She’s not only not the brightest star on tree, she fell off the tree!
Complete scam artist! Explains why her son is such a jerk. She even thinks that it's funny that thjs happened to her tenants
I love that JJ doesn’t just give people money to give them money. You had free electricity for years. If that were me I’d be pretty happy our electricity ranges from $110-500 (when our pool is going during summer).
I’ll take that loss of food (which we actually have had due to power outages from weather and didn’t get anything for it, 2 days no power; previous home we had almost 4 days of no power while our neighbor was restored the first day 🤪fun).
Do you get compensation from the power company? We do in the UK if the power cut lasts more than 12 hours. We pay a daily standing charge (currently capped at 53p per day) for electric and then the units we use, so even if the power is off you are still paying the daily rate. So when my power went out twice in December 2022 14 hours first time and 25 hours second time I was given £255 compensation (£75 for the first 12 hours and then £35 for every 12 hours following). I think the compensation has gone up since then as Putin made global energy prices go crazy with his war. The compensation is capped depending on what caused it. If it's a severe storm it's about £500 and like my case where it was lack of maintenance as the pipes are underground it's around £2000. I think if I remember correctly people in some European countries also get compensation. It certainly helped with having to replace a freezer full of food right before Christmas.
In the UK most of us aren't lucky enough to have pools or ac, unless you are very well off! I am insanely jealous of people who can go swimming whenever they want. So everywhere has it's perks and it's bad points.
@@shendisackettthe 4 days was when we lived in Canada.
I can’t remember. That was probably 10 years ago u try to memory hole it since it was right when we had to put our dog to sleep. So my husband left for work in the day and I got to sit alone with that. Not a fun time.
The recent time is the US, I don’t think we got anything.They barely keep you updated on wtf even happens. We get a lot of power outages. And I know when it’s for 1-6 hours we get fuck all.
@@shendisacketthaving a pool is great but also a huge pain in the ass. I would die without air conditioning. When I moved in with my boyfriend at the tjme, husband now, i was the reason we got an a/c. I guess Canada it’s not as common either.
In my previous house with my dad our ac didn’t work at all but I don’t like living that way. I know it’s very different in EU countries with how that works.
Same thing with garbage disposals. Those are fairly regional as well.
@@elvickRULES see in the summer we all want air con as our summers are getting hotter but they don't last very long so it's a lot to pay for a few weeks. The people I know who have treated themselves to ac only had it installed in their bedroom some the living room as well. The mobile units you can buy are so ridiculously loud you still wouldn't be able to sleep. A downside to living in a bungalow is I can't throw my windows open wide either! Our power companies keep us so up to date calling and texting you end up having to ask them to stop because your phone will die... although last time we found out that their vans are all equipped to charge people's phones or tablets. So if you did run out you could go and ask them. I live in the same small town as my parents and luckily we are on different circuits so if my power goes they usually still have theirs and vice versa. Our compensation only starts after 12 hours, their view is that you can cope for that amount of time and if you don't touch your freezer nothing will thaw. In 2022 I lost count of how many power cuts we had, there was a problem on our cable and it takes a while to track an underground fault.
"Maybe I don't need to be trusting people" she says.
She should start with her son?
The only person she don’t need to be trustin is her son 😂
She think she won?? 😂😂😂 the woman is slow asf.
The plaintiff is a con artist and she says at the end I hope my former tenants learn alot from this situation and she says it be hard to trust other people again that's the best joke ever 😂 I hope the plaintiff son goes to jail for rigging the electricity and stealing power.
The way the husband kept trying to leave it to the wife on the recording 🤔🤔🤔
That was the scam. Get him out of having to make a decision so that no one makes a decision.
She looks pregnant. I hope she's not having her 7th. This is ridiculous to have so many kids and not even own a home.
Her son needs to be locked up
Idk why the plaintiff keeps smiling so big because she’s losing, and going to have to pay the electric. Hopefully for their sake the son won’t end up in jail.
Talking about trust when your son is a criminal? Wow
How do you call that harassment???
This case reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine.
Her landlord's house was next door. The landlord had her son run a power line from my friend's breaker box to their's, to use the electricity from her house. When my friend's bill skyrocketed the power company came out, cut the line the son had slaved in and but a lock on the box. The landlord and her son blamed my friend for the trouble they got onto. The son started making death threats. My friend moved to a gated community that had video surveillance.
The insanity of the plaintiff reminds me of the insanity of my friend's landlord and landlord's son.
You too plaintiff needs to learn from this!
“Maybe I don’t need to be trusting people” - start with your son 🙄
That was some HORRIBLE harrassment
Regardless who is at fault, I think it makes perfect sense that as a tenant you open utilities in your name.
It depends. My daughters lease said she was responsible for gas and electricity, but water, sewer and trash was the responsibility of the owner. If the two contracts the defendants had were correct, it wasn’t specified. Someone should have been getting a bill, but because the son had done something illegal no one was getting a bill.
The defendants are scammers as well. How do you figure you live somewhere for two years and not get/pay an electric bill?!? Then wanna sue for some food going bad because the electric finally was turned off.