Sesame Street Justice

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2011

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A group of high school kids kidnapped their youth group leader's life-size Ernie doll as a prank, but he was stolen from them before his safe return. Can they be held responsible for Ernie's disappearance if they intended to return him?

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0:00.0	We're going to get into the judge John Hodgman podcast in just a moment, but first we're
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0:39.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.
0:41.2	I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn.
0:43.2	This week, Sesame Street Justice are dispute, a class action.
0:48.7	The plaintiff is Chris, a youth group leader.
0:52.2	This summer, a group of three of his students snuck into his house and stole his life-sized
0:57.1	doll of the Sesame Street character Ernie.
1:00.6	For two weeks, they secretly corresponded with Chris as kidnappers before finally admitting
1:07.4	that they were behind the prank.
1:09.8	The prank though went horribly wrong when before he was returned, Ernie was stolen from
1:16.2	one of the students, truck.
1:18.4	The students represented by Ben say they only perpetrated a harmless prank and the responsibility
1:25.3	for the loss of the doll lies with the thief who broke into the truck.
1:29.9	Chris argues that the responsibility lies with the students who kidnapped the doll.
1:35.7	Who's right and who's wrong?
1:37.4	Only one man can decide.
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