Jury Duty

Infinitum · April 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Damn it all to bloody hell...</div> Yeah somehow I've managed to score Jury Duty today....

I pray to hell I get there, they do whatever, and I'm not selected to be empanelled... Not that I wouldn't do my job if I was.... I just don't wanna waste a day of my life over something I really have no obligation for...

Anyways... off I go...

Let me hear some Jury Duty stories so I can read them when I get back...

*sigh*

AllUrHiveRblong2us · April 2004

<img src='http://www.meninhats.com/comics/20040412.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

A sure fire plan!

V_MAN · April 2004

Yeah I got picked for this a few years ago, major *yawnage* some kid was up in the dock for assault blah blah usual crap him and a bunch of his townie mates valiantly manged to beat up 1 bloke when there was 10 of them and they was armed with golf clubs. He got sent down and is now being arse raped in prison i hope.

Marik_Steele · April 2004

If you really want to get out of jury duty but don't want to lie about anything, just tell them you actively participate in a worldwide community of 20+ thousand people who meet online to discuss how fun natural selection is <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

esuna · April 2004

Jury duty was great for me. I turn up one day, sit around for an hour watching videos about what it's like in the court, then they tell me i'm not selected for the current trial and i can go home. Then i had to call in every day for a week or two, didn't get called in any other day. So yeah, about an hour then no work. I was happy. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

NumbersNotFound · April 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Apr 28 2004, 06:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If you really want to get out of jury duty but don't want to lie about anything, just tell them you actively participate in a worldwide community of 20+ thousand people who meet online to discuss how fun natural selection is <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Best. idea. evar.

Bogglesteinsky · April 2004

My dad did jury duty once. He refuses to talk about it because he is still under the privacy thingy that he signed. I just think he was abused by the judge and it has left him mentally scarred and he doesn't want to talk about it.

big_jim · April 2004

whatever happened to doing your civic duty?

young'uns these days, what you need is a stint reality! bring back national service, thats what I say! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

RuBy · April 2004

Some more comics about the topic...

<a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/112/a/1/Duty_Calls_Part_1.jpg' target='_blank'>1</a> <a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/115/8/c/Duty_Calls_Part_2.jpg' target='_blank'>2</a> <a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/118/f/b/Duty_Calls_Part_3.jpg' target='_blank'>3</a>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Windelkron · April 2004

what big jim said, unless he was kidding.
have some respect for your nation.
there would be no fair trials if nobody did jury duty. it should be an honor to have been selected to serve for your government...

Cold_NiTe · April 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Windelkron @ Apr 28 2004, 07:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> what big jim said, unless he was kidding.
have some respect for your nation.
there would be no fair trials if nobody did jury duty. it should be an honor to have been selected to serve for your government...  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
It should be, but some people go to great measures to get out of it...

Scythe · April 2004

I got a letter the other day informing me that I had been randomly selected from the electorial roll for jury duty. If I didn't return the letter by the due date I would be fined $700. I recieved the letter about a week AFTER the due date.

I filled it in and sent it out ASAP with a cover note explaning why it was late.

:-X

--Scythe--

Testament · April 2004

Maybe we just don't care! :O!

Edit: to the country bit. Nanosecond ****.

Mantrid · April 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Apr 28 2004, 04:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Some more comics about the topic...

<a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/112/a/1/Duty_Calls_Part_1.jpg' target='_blank'>1</a> <a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/115/8/c/Duty_Calls_Part_2.jpg' target='_blank'>2</a> <a href='http://images3.deviantart.com/i/2004/118/f/b/Duty_Calls_Part_3.jpg' target='_blank'>3</a>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Forbidden'd!

EvenFlow · April 2004

I'm interested to know how this works, mind explaining to me ? Do random members of the public get called up to be on a jury, or do only certain people qualify ?

Wither · April 2004

I like Marik's plan!

big_jim · April 2004

they should do what they did in the simpsons

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (moe when reading his call up papers)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>You have been selected to join the Justice Squad, report to the Municiple Fortress of Vengence 8am monday! - oh boy I am so there!</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

but yeah i was only half joking about what i said at the top of the page, our justice system (and most for that matter) depends on a jury of the defendents peers, and trying to get out of it just seems, to me, a bit of a cheep thing to do.

NScombat · April 2004

My work colleague was called for jury service. Your not supposed to talk about the case but he was so happy with it that he told me afterwards.

A guy was up before the beak for bringing pron videos into the country but the real stinger was that the jury had to watch some of the material!

He got in an arguement with other jurors because he didnt see what was wrong with porn and wouldn't agree with the guilty verdict.

> Now that is a jury I wouldn't mind being in.

My wife was on a murder jury - not nice.

Zunni · April 2004

Only gone to Jury Selection once (back in Canada)...

Trial was about a male dance instructor who was charged with sexual assault, and statutory rape.

Turns out my wife (then Girlfriend) had taken classes from him, though I didn't know that until much later.

So it would have been a major unknown conflict of interest if I had made the jury.

But I agree Jury Duty is your civic duty as a democratic citizen, just like voting..

People love to talk about how free the country is, but the second jury duty or an election comes up, they don't want to participate in the processes that make the country free.

Infinitum · April 2004

Went

Sat in room

2 hours later

Went home

boo for jury duty

That_Annoying_Kid · April 2004

we want more club stores!

seperate them with rabbits or anime or something next time!

Rob · April 2004

I'm with the rest of the patriotic types here. It's your civic duty, suck it up and get it done.

Dread · April 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Windelkron @ Apr 29 2004, 02:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>there would be no fair trials if nobody did jury duty.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
So all the countries with no juries have unfair trials? I better not get busted then <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

silverace · April 2004

The government could be much more considerate about it though. I'm going to school out of state, and I get a letter saying that I have to show up for jury duty in 3 weeks time. I'M IN SCHOOL. IN ANOTHER STATE. HALFWAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. They could have picked a much better time to call me up for duty....

big_jim · April 2004

ah well thats different, its just plain difficult to miss however long off school and travel across the country (the US im assuming?). a lot more different to objcting to getting time off work and going down to the city centre

Windelkron · April 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dread @ Apr 29 2004, 09:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Windelkron @ Apr 29 2004, 02:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>there would be no fair trials if nobody did jury duty.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
So all the countries with no juries have unfair trials? I better not get busted then <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
you don't have juries in your trials?
how do they work then?
a single judge makes the verdict???

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