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00:00You say she destroyed your drone.
00:02So she came over with our son on her hip, grabbed it,
00:06and then tossed it.
00:07The whole thing was tossed?
00:08Yeah.
00:09No.
00:10He was ignoring you.
00:11You were frustrated.
00:12Baby is crying.
00:13What I wanted from him was him to look up at me.
00:16Sometimes a hissy fit costs money.
00:19This is Judy Justice.
00:38Mary Jedry is suing her former daughter-in-law, Sarah Zinn,
00:43for lost wages and the cost of a drone.
00:47Court coming to order.
00:48All rise.
00:51Have a seat, please.
00:54Judge, case 48-8, Jedry versus Zinn.
00:57You're welcome.
00:58Not such a difficult case.
01:01Interesting, but not too difficult.
01:03Ms. Gedry, Ms. Zinn was married to your son,
01:06and they had a child.
01:08Yes.
01:08You had a drone.
01:10About a year or so ago, you took the drone
01:13to a family function.
01:15Yes.
01:15And the drone was damaged.
01:17Yes.
01:18And it was damaged so that it could not be used.
01:20So what you did was you gave it to your son.
01:25This, I assume, is your son, because you would need him
01:27as the witness to this.
01:29You took the drone and gave it to your son in hopes
01:32that he could fix it.
01:33Your narrative is not completely correct, but...
01:36Close enough.
01:39Maybe.
01:39Yeah.
01:40Close enough.
01:41OK.
01:42And your son took the drone home so far.
01:44Is that right?
01:45You took the drone home.
01:46Correct.
01:46And repaired it, yes.
01:47Stand up.
01:48Your mother really doesn't know what happened.
01:50You do.
01:51You took the drone home.
01:53Correct.
01:53And then just give me a month and a year that you...
01:56May of...
01:572024.
01:59May of 2024.
02:00Yeah.
02:01When you took the drone home, was that immediately
02:04after the family function where it was damaged?
02:07No.
02:08It was about a month later.
02:09It was in her possession.
02:10OK.
02:10Were you with the family function when it was damaged?
02:13Yes.
02:13Tell me about that function.
02:15It was my grandfather's memorial,
02:17and we were having a celebration of life for him.
02:20I was flying the drone, and it fell about five feet
02:23and cracked the gimbal cage.
02:25Tell me what that is.
02:26I have no...
02:26It holds the camera in place and prevents it,
02:29vibrations and stuff, from affecting it.
02:31Were you able to use it after it fell five feet?
02:35Yeah, it would work, but the camera was, you know,
02:38hanging out of it.
02:38But...
02:39So don't speak.
02:40So it wasn't usable?
02:42No.
02:43And your mother kept it for about a month
02:45and then gave it to you?
02:46Correct.
02:47And when your mother gave it to you,
02:48was that in her house, or did she bring it to you?
02:51It's at her house.
02:52And tell me what the conversation was
02:54when your mother gave you the drone.
02:56Um...
02:57Look at me.
02:58Just that she needed it repaired,
02:59and I said that, you know, I could do it
03:02from looking at the log of what was wrong with it
03:04and it telling me that everything was fine, basically.
03:08It was just that the gimbal cage was, you know, damaged,
03:11so it wasn't hanging the camera correctly.
03:14You took it home.
03:15Did you try to fix it immediately?
03:17More or less, yeah.
03:18I think maybe a day went by.
03:19And when you tried to fix it,
03:20did you disassemble the whole drone?
03:22Very much of it, yeah.
03:23And that was on the kitchen table?
03:25Correct.
03:26Okay. Now it sort of becomes interesting.
03:28Your mother has no knowledge of what happened herself,
03:31because she wasn't there.
03:32You had a newborn child with the defendant.
03:36Is this your only child?
03:37No.
03:38How many children do you have with the defendant?
03:40How old is the other one?
03:41Fourteen.
03:42And give me the date that this incident happened
03:45with the drone when you were working on it
03:47on the kitchen table.
03:49May 11th of 2024.
03:51Okay.
03:51And Ms. Zinn, let me, because I've read your papers,
03:54and I actually know exactly what was going on in your mind
03:58and what was going on in the frustrated part
04:02of your emotions that day.
04:05Your baby was five months old?
04:07Mm-hmm.
04:08And crying and needed to be cared for.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Whatever.
04:11And you were a little frustrated.
04:12You went inside to the kitchen to ask him to help.
04:15Mm-hmm.
04:15So far, am I telling this story?
04:18I'm sort of piecing it together.
04:19And he was busy playing with the drone.
04:22Yes.
04:23And you repeated to yourself, I need some help.
04:25And you want to help me with the baby?
04:27According to you, he said no.
04:29Whether he said no or not, he did not put down the drone.
04:33Mm-hmm.
04:33You're correct.
04:34That was a part.
04:35And you got a little frustrated.
04:37What you say in your answer to this
04:40is actually something I don't believe,
04:43because you said you did get frustrated,
04:44and you took a piece of the drone that was in his hand
04:49in order to get his attention, and then you got his attention
04:53and carefully put it back on the kitchen counter.
04:56Yes.
04:56That I don't believe.
04:57OK.
04:58Because it's not true.
04:59It's not true.
05:01I don't want you to speak.
05:02You have absolutely no knowledge of what went on that day.
05:05You weren't there.
05:06Well, I've seen the flight logs.
05:08You have absolutely no knowledge of what went on that day.
05:11You weren't there.
05:12So let me suggest that maybe your reactions to the drone
05:18were a little more volatile than you describe in your answer.
05:22Probably that would make sense.
05:25Been there, done that.
05:26That's what you're suing for.
05:28You're suing her because you say she destroyed your drone.
05:32Now, Mr. Fett, do you want to describe what happened?
05:35You tell me what happened in the kitchen in May.
05:37I was sitting at the kitchen table.
05:39With a disassembled drone.
05:41Disassembling the drone.
05:42Put all the pieces that I needed back onto it.
05:44It wasn't fully together yet because I wanted to make sure it worked.
05:48I don't care.
05:48Before I put it all back together.
05:49You still have pieces, you still have pieces on the kitchen counter.
05:52Right.
05:52OK.
05:53Let's not make it look good for you.
05:55Let's just make it as accurate as possible.
05:57I'm going to tell your mother not to open her mouth.
06:02She's not buying you a new drone.
06:04It takes meticulous flight logs for every flight.
06:07And you can see that it's repaired and it's working fine.
06:10It does a systems check.
06:12Until after she touched it.
06:25Mary Jedry claims her former daughter-in-law, Sarah Zinn, owes for lost wages and the cost of a drone.
06:34OK.
06:35You tell me what happened.
06:36OK.
06:37She started yelling for me for a Q-tip to put some ointment on her son's neck, which I had
06:43just done.
06:44I said, no, I'm not going to do that.
06:45And I was also, you know, deep in this drone.
06:47Very meticulous, you know, work to it.
06:51She came over with our son on her hip and pushed my hand off the drone, grabbed it,
06:56and then tossed it about two feet over onto the kitchen counter where it, like, hit the toaster
07:01and jumbled off of it and landed on the counter.
07:04So she took it and tossed it about two feet and it landed on the kitchen counter?
07:09Yeah.
07:10Correct.
07:10And then what happened?
07:11She continued to yell at me and...
07:14What did she say to you?
07:15She said, this is our son.
07:17You know, he needs you.
07:18How could you do this?
07:19I don't want you in my life, you know, things of that nature.
07:22So I just went outside because I didn't want her yelling in our son's ear any longer.
07:26And so I just went out and let things cool off and came in, told her, you know,
07:30you probably broke the drone.
07:31I plugged it in and that was the case.
07:33And I looked at it and there was no way that I could...
07:36I don't have the expertise to repair it.
07:39Okay.
07:39You want to tell me, is that pretty much what happened?
07:41No.
07:42Okay.
07:42Came in, he was ignoring you, you were frustrated, baby is crying, he's not participating,
07:48he's not being the father that you needed at the moment or the mate that you needed at the moment.
07:53What did you throw?
07:55Listen to me.
07:56Mm-hmm.
07:56What did you throw?
07:59Absolutely nothing.
08:00Okay.
08:00You want to tell me what you did?
08:02What I did?
08:03Yes.
08:03After changing the diaper of my child.
08:06No, no, no.
08:06No, you're in the kitchen.
08:08It's brief.
08:08It's brief.
08:08You're in the kitchen.
08:09I hadn't...
08:10What took place in the kitchen was me simply taking a part out of his hand
08:13and putting it on the counter because what I wanted from him was him to look up at me.
08:16I understand exactly...
08:18Listen to me.
08:19I understand exactly what you're saying.
08:21Been there, done that.
08:23Well...
08:23I had gotten the prize on that.
08:25My intent was not...
08:26Getting your attention usually involves a little bit more than just gently picking something
08:33out of your hand.
08:34It's the equivalent to me grabbing something out of my baby's hand that he shouldn't have
08:37when he shouldn't have it.
08:39I don't break things when I grab them out of my baby's hand and that's the same thing I did
08:42was
08:42grabbing that out of his hand.
08:44I wasn't to break it.
08:45Are you kidding me?
08:45I could care less what he was working with.
08:46You would have taken the drone and hit him over the head with it if you didn't...
08:48No, I would have taken something else and hit him over the head with it.
08:51Just a second.
08:52I don't necessarily...
08:52It's not even necessary.
08:54Shh.
08:54I'm trying to talk.
08:55Okay.
08:55I don't necessarily disagree with you.
08:58I'm not making you into something...
09:01Oh, I understand.
09:01...something terrible.
09:03You know, he was doing a man thing.
09:04I'm playing with my drone.
09:07Don't bother me.
09:08You're taking care of it.
09:10You take care of it.
09:11I can understand the frustration of a new mother who already has a 14-year-old.
09:17So this is a real...
09:18I get it.
09:19I get it.
09:20Okay.
09:20So now I will use my own imagination.
09:23But there's no question that she picked up one piece or the whole drone and tossed it.
09:28Now, the drone was not working when you got it.
09:31So you don't, according to you, have the expertise to put it back together.
09:36Right?
09:37I do.
09:37That's what you just said.
09:38Would you read that back?
09:39He said, I don't have the expertise.
09:42After the final...
09:43Okay.
09:43...speak.
09:44He said, I don't have the expertise to repair it.
09:47Right.
09:47So when did you purchase the drone?
09:50What month and year?
09:52I purchased the drone in April of 2022.
09:59In April of 2022, how much did you pay for the drone?
10:02$5,826.
10:04Now I'd like to see, after May 11th, did you take the drone in to be professionally repaired?
10:10No, it's expensive and I didn't have the funds to do that at the time.
10:15Then what do you expect me to do?
10:18She's not buying you a new drone.
10:20We're not asking for a new drone.
10:22I don't know how much it is to fix.
10:23I have the replacement costs right here.
10:26She's not buying you a new drone.
10:28It takes meticulous flight logs for every flight.
10:31And you can see that it's repaired and it's working fine.
10:34It does a systems check.
10:36Until after she touched it.
10:37Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
10:40The machine wasn't working when you gave it to your son to fix.
10:45Now you have a non-working drone.
10:47I repaired it.
10:48Just a second.
10:49I don't know that.
10:50It wasn't put together yet.
10:52You already told me that the two pieces were apart.
10:55She damaged it.
10:56Now the exercise is you have to take it in for an analysis to figure out
11:01how much it will cost to fix it because your son doesn't have the expertise to fix it.
11:06She's not buying you a new or a replacement drone.
11:09We've never asked for that.
11:11Just a second.
11:12You paid $5,800 for it two years ago.
11:16Yes.
11:17And you're asking for $3,200.
11:20No.
11:21$3,200 includes lost revenue.
11:23Oh, lost revenue is nonsense.
11:25I'm not even entertaining that.
11:26That's ridiculous.
11:27We have the repair cost estimate for doing this.
11:30Number one, we have the machine itself does its own systems analysis.
11:35I can't.
11:36Madam, unless you.
11:37And we have that here.
11:38We can provide you with the flight logs.
11:40No.
11:40Show that it worked and after she threw it, it stopped working.
11:45Madam, I need an estimate for repair.
11:48Let's say.
11:49I have that for you.
11:50Well, just a second.
11:51My question to you was, did you take it in to have it analyzed?
11:57No.
11:57And you said no.
11:58Well, I'll see what you have.
12:00But how do you get an estimate for repair without taking it in?
12:03I promise.
12:03Without knowing what's wrong with it.
12:05And you can't testify what's wrong with it.
12:09Oh, no.
12:10This is not an accessory price inquiry.
12:13That's not this.
12:14It's just the gimbal section.
12:16Understand this.
12:17Let's say this wasn't a drone.
12:19Let's say instead of a drone, she took your car, which your son was working on,
12:25and she purposely backed it into a tree and damaged it.
12:30And you sued her.
12:31Yeah.
12:31What evidence do you think you would need to show a judge an amount,
12:36a dollar amount of what it would cost to fix the car?
12:41What would you give to the judge?
12:42I'm going to make it easy for you.
12:44An estimate.
12:45Correct.
12:45But which is what we have.
12:47No, this is not an estimate from a company.
12:49It is from the company.
12:51It's from DJI itself.
12:53They sent us the component lists, the parts that are damaged, which are detailed.
12:58I've got the same list.
12:59When it does its systems check, it shows you what works and what doesn't work,
13:03what needs to be replaced.
13:04And they include in there a $65 service fee plus shipping to send it down there.
13:10The drone will fly.
13:11We could fly it in here and zip it around the room.
13:13And it has always flown.
13:15The damage is that the camera will no longer pan, tilt, zoom, and all of the things that
13:23are necessary for it to benefit the work that we do.
13:27I can't help you.
13:29Unless you take this into a store, to a company, and they analyze this and they say,
13:34this is what is necessary because this was broken when she tossed it.
13:38I can't help you.
13:42Does that or does that not indicate that that's it?
13:47We're done here.
13:48I'm done with you.
13:48I'm done with you.
13:49Did you see what you just did?
13:51Talk to him.
13:52You talked to him.
13:53How many times?
13:54I apologize.
13:55You apologized.
13:56Does that show that the drone was flown on July 6th?
14:10Mary Jedry has accused her former daughter-in-law, Sarah Zinn, of damaging her drone during an
14:18argument with her son.
14:20You're asking me to go through that drone.
14:23Is that what you're asking me to do?
14:25No, we could show you the two incidents.
14:27A drone is not like a car where you can drive it in or have somebody come out and take
14:32an estimate.
14:33You have to either ship it in or talk to them over the phone.
14:38If you seem to know about it, I'm going to ask one question.
14:41Maybe that will help me.
14:42Is there any way of looking on that machine and telling me prior to May 11th, prior to May 11th,
14:51what was wrong with it?
14:53Yes.
14:53What will it show me was broken prior to May 11th?
14:58What part of it?
14:59I'm going to tell your mother that she better not open her mouth.
15:03I'm just looking at him.
15:05What was broken on the drone prior to May 11th at the family function?
15:12I believe it's just the cracked case was the only reason the camera was hanging out of it.
15:16So you couldn't, I mean, you wouldn't want to fly it.
15:18Just a second.
15:19What I'm asking you is, is that what it will tell me?
15:23Yes.
15:23Let me see.
15:24Go find prior to May 11th that it's going to tell me the only thing wrong with it is a
15:29case.
15:30This is the flight.
15:33Kevin, watch very carefully.
15:35What was the damage on it prior to May 11th?
15:38It just says aircraft is not connected.
15:40Is that all that it says, Mr. Fett?
15:42Yes.
15:43Okay.
15:44Now go after May 11th.
15:47Does it show that was repaired?
15:48Yeah, it shows normal mode.
15:50Everything's fine.
15:51There's no, no, nothing.
15:53On what date?
15:54On May 11th.
15:56Where it says May 11th at?
15:57Okay.
15:57May 11th it shows.
15:59It says Gimmelstuck.
16:01Gimmelstuck?
16:02Yes.
16:03Could you go on the drone in September of 2024?
16:08I'm not sure we were even flying.
16:10Wait.
16:11I'm not talking to you, madam.
16:13No, I can't.
16:14It's never flown after May 11th.
16:16It's never flown after May 11th.
16:18Right.
16:18Yeah.
16:20After I turned it on and it did the flight log.
16:23Okay.
16:23Very good.
16:24So it hasn't flown, so it would not show me anything?
16:26No.
16:27Okay, great.
16:28Thank you very much.
16:29All right.
16:30Ms. Zinn, I'm satisfied from reading the history
16:34of what my car officer and your former husband tell me,
16:37that something happened on May 11th that caused this
16:41gimbal component to break and to be non-functional.
16:45And the only intermediate thing that happened was that you touched it.
16:50So you're going to be responsible for $1,429 to fix that one part.
16:58Sometimes a hissy fit costs money.
17:00Can I interject for just a moment?
17:02Okay.
17:02That May 11th thing didn't take place on May 11th.
17:06It was July when the incident between me and him and that drone happened.
17:09It was literally weeks before the first message I received from Mary Gedry about the drone.
17:13Ms. Gedry, I don't want you to get involved with this unless I ask you a question.
17:18Do you understand?
17:20Yeah.
17:20Yes.
17:21Good.
17:21Your former wife, Mr. Fett, she says that this incident with the drone in your kitchen happened in July.
17:29Does that refresh your recollection?
17:31No, it does not.
17:32And it shows on the flight log.
17:33What was the date in July?
17:35I'm assuming the incident, as far as I remember, was, and I don't mean to assume,
17:38it was in early July.
17:40Kevin, do you know how to play with this drone?
17:42No, I don't.
17:42It wasn't even working when he brought it to my house that day in parts and pieces.
17:46I don't know.
17:47I just want to know.
17:47I just want to know if it shows anything in July.
17:51It wouldn't.
17:51He was still working on it then, too.
17:53That's probably not true.
17:54It wasn't even working at that point.
17:55Keep going.
17:55Keep going.
17:56July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
17:57Uh, July 6th is the last date in July.
18:00That sounds about like the day that it happened.
18:02Kevin, is there anything in that log between July 1st and July 20th?
18:09Take a look.
18:10July 1 through 20.
18:13July 6th, and there's nothing after the 6th.
18:17Well, what does it say on July 6th?
18:19And it's flying for about five minutes.
18:21It looks like it'll fly.
18:22Really?
18:23That was on July 6th?
18:24Yes.
18:25Oh, Mr. Fett, step back next to your mother.
18:27Your mother just told me that the drone had not been used after this incident.
18:34Don't speak.
18:35Does that or does that not indicate that it...
18:39Thanks.
18:40That's it.
18:40We're done here.
18:41I'm done with you.
18:42I'm done with you.
18:43Did you see what you just did?
18:45Talk to him.
18:46You talked to him.
18:47How many times...
18:48I apologize.
18:49I'm sorry.
18:49You apologized.
18:50Does that show that the drone was flown on July 6th?
18:54Yes, it does.
18:55Your case is dismissed.
18:56We're done here.
18:57Thank you very much.
18:58This court is adjourned.
19:03I didn't throw anything.
19:04I basically just wanted to get his attention so he would acknowledge me.
19:07Yeah, she was throwing a fit and decided to get physical and move my hand and grab the drone and
19:13just had a little tantrum.
19:15There wasn't like a lot of anger in that.
19:16Yeah, we were arguing but it was mostly wanting to get him to look up at me and that was
19:20all I needed.
19:21The fact that the drone can fly, it can still fly, I said that in court,
19:25doesn't mean that the gimbal and the camera system aren't damaged.
19:29Then I felt like I kind of won the argument by him having to look up at me.
19:32It'll be repaired one way or another but hopefully, you know, I'll be divorced by that time.
19:39You know how I hate things technical.
19:41Oh yeah, I could get you one for your birthday.
19:44It was so interesting.
19:46The defendant was very clear.
19:48She said the whole thing didn't happen in May.
19:51And she was respectful.
19:52She waited her turn.
19:53She said, excuse me, actually, none of that is true.
19:56I was going to disagree with you in the middle when I thought I knew where it was going when
20:00you
20:00were not going to accept the invoice list of parts, which I understood where you were going
20:07is that you wanted sort of a service person to have taken a look at it and said, this is
20:13what it's
20:13going to cost to fix.
20:14I'm signing off on it on my company letterhead and here's the invoice.
20:18But I know that with a lot of technology nowadays, that's not how it's run.
20:22I mean, I know New York passed a law that they have to be able to fix technology because of
20:27the
20:27impact on the planet and things like that.
20:29So a lot of times it's just getting the list of parts, identifying from the device itself,
20:34which he was saying he could show you the device itself running the diagnostic and showing you
20:38which parts were necessary to be ordered to fix, you know, the errors.
20:42So I would have accepted the list that was given to us from the self-diagnosis of the machine,
20:48but it ended up that we didn't even need to do that because...
20:51She testified that, and so did he, that the machine had not been used since May 11th.
20:57Yeah.
20:57That it was broken since she touched it, but the machine said it was flown in July.
21:02I don't think they ever said there was anything wrong with the flying of the drone,
21:06just more with the camera capabilities while it was flying.
21:09So I understand the discrepancy there, but either way, they weren't honest with that
21:13up front and because of that, they lost.
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21:39Bye.
21:40Bye.
21:51Bye.
21:54Bye.
21:58Bye.
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