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..when you are told to visit the office in other place, and you were surrounded by a research and data-science group: [^]
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I once had jury duty in San Diego CA. The case was a high profile case, so there were some 100 jurors in the selection pool, including me. We broke for lunch, and I went across the street for a sandwich.
Now, I thought I went back to the same building, but it turns out there are two nearly identical court buildings, and I went in the wrong one. Up the elevator to the appropriate floor, and "where's the court room???"
It took probably 15 minutes to get directions, go back down, walk over to the correct building, go up the elevator, and enter the court room, at this point now in session again doing jury selection.
Needless to say, the judge was annoyed and threatened to hold me in contempt. I was very humble, hand wringing apologetic (very unusual for me!) and he dismissed me from the case.
So I learned another way to get out of jury duty.
I despise jury duty. A "jury of one's peers" is a joke, I do not believe it is my "civil duty", and I also believe I should be able to avoid jury duty on religious grounds -- I don't want that karma!
Incidentally, my only other case was a medical lawsuit. The lawyers had a Q&A period before selecting jurors, in which I made the comment "How are you going to prove malpractice, your client looks totally healthy?" I was dismissed (in fact, they were saving their last dismissal for me) before my toosh hit the juror seat.
Marc
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That's really an awkward experience.
..but this:
Marc Clifton wrote: I went back to the same building, but it turns out there are two nearly identical court buildings, and I went in the wrong one. Up the elevator to the appropriate floor, and "where's the court room???"
It's funny because I don't have a sense of direction. I can easily get lost. If you leave me in the middle of the city (especially big cities) then I'm like this: [^]
And that's my superpower.. I'm always lost.
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My one and only time on a jury was for a misdemeanor retail theft case. Prosecution included video of the theft and testimony from store security who monitored the clown all the way out to his car. No idea why he didn't plead guilty.
In the jury room - we elected a foreman, voted to convict and signed the jury declaration (12 signatures) in 6 minutes flat. The bailiff said it was the quickest he'd ever seen.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Yeah, I usually go out because I was/had been an expert witness in several cases in Anchorage, involving either gunshot residue analysis or fire accellerant analysis
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Marc Clifton wrote:
So I learned another way to get out of jury duty.
That's very easy.. Goes like this..
"Judge: Mr. Marois, do you think you can be impartial in this case?"
"Me: I dunno your honor, he looks guilty to me:
"Judge: Mr. Marois, you're dismissed"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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better watch out, if the judge thinks you're being a smartass to weasel out, instead of dismissal he can hold you in contempt instead.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just bring a copy of "Mein Kampf" to "read" while waiting.
No words necessary.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I despise jury duty.
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Geography puns are below even my standards. There's Norway I'd go Oslo as that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 Why are you Russian these out?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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This one was Sweden sour.
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I was going to add to this thread, but was afraid Iceland-er someone.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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If you think Germany puns are funny Denmark my words: they actually are, Kenya believe it? 
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 Irish I hadn't read that.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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OK, I guess we're Finnish.
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Uganda be kidding me!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I think we'll have to Greece his palm to get him to stop.
/ravi
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or throw a Grenada at him.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That should Prussia him to stop.
/ravi
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Only Timor will tell.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, we'll have to Czech up on him.
/ravi
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Not sure how we're Ghana make that happen.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You might be at the end of Eu rope
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Jordan right Youkon - it's good for the Seoul
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