My cousin went on the show a couple years ago... local road rage incident.... he got paid and got awarded monies to fix up his vehicle (which he never fixed-still drives his vehicle with a totally smashed up front end), they took California taxes out of his check.... complained the weather was extremely hot the week he visited and everything was crazy expensive.... But my cousin is a natural for the Judge Judy show. Hes just like the character Cousin Eddie from Christmas vacation (shitters full) .... and I'm not kidding.