Reply #4: He asked to see the wound. She APPARENTLY chose to show it in an open court.

[TheMadMonk]

Yes there were still better ways to handle that, but it doesn't exactly look like he ORDERED her to drop her strides. Some sort of spanking was due him, but not outright removal from the bench.

The comments were definitely over the top, but it looks a little like the bailiff set him up for a fall. He asked a leading question and then dobbed in the judge. I hope he got HIS comeuppance for that little effort.


As for the flipping of the coin, over one day (Christmas) of visitation is it really that big a deal?

It would appear the kid refused to chose for themselves, (possibly out of fear of upsetting the other parent) since to the best of my knowledge that is the usual way a judge decides such things.

The parents were not going to resolve the dispute, and any decision his part would in all likelihood have been seen by one of the parents as validation. The other would just have been pissed.

A coin toss avoids any appearance of favouritism. Real or imagined.

Perhaps he should have proposed dividing the kid in half and giving part to each parent. That's the proper biblical way to resolve these things.