UK air conditioning contractors finding work hard to come by might at first be jealous of news that their US counterparts are being provided with work by court order. However two US engineers in Florida might not agree.
A US judge reportedly lost her cool and threatened to jail two air-conditioning maintenance workers, if they didn't do something about her cold courtroom.

Judge Marci Goodman was presiding over a closed juvenile proceeding in a cold Santa Rosa County courthouse when she decided to summon the maintenance workers to face a chilly reception.

The judge ordered a county deputy to threaten the workers with jail if they did not fix the temperature in the courtroom.

The workers tried to fix the temperature when Judge Goodman first asked, but later refusal to enter the courtroom following her second request for action which led to the judge ordering them to be detained in a room next to the courtroom on August 24.

Temperatures were raised further when the two workers' supervisor arrived. When Judge Goodman asked if the air conditioning could be shut down, the superviser requested instead that his men be freed first, but the hot and bothered judge refused.

The judge said that until the ac was shut off, the two men would remain held in the room to freeze like everyone else.

After 20 minutes of heated exchanges, the pair were set free.