Ok, your allowed to be all "Oh look at me, I'm a victim, because my friends are dead I somehow am better than everyone else." I'm an anarchist and am frankly quite annoyed at you thinking that other people should have the right to decide what I can and cannot do... sorry to ask but if a guy named George decide to make a law that forces people to jump out the window, would you do it?
and guess what, I knew someone who died so that makes it impossible to argue with me...

BTW: To the OB, you really should not make any excuses, I can't possibly imagine how opposed you must be with skyrim...

Definitely this. Or show some heinous level of bias

Uhhh. How is it that my comment spawned this whole hissy fit? I was just saying, if you don't show, you'll get fined or a contempt of court ruling against you. I don't mind doing my civic duty normally, but in my county, they can summon you as much as they want, and that really makes it a pain. My old county was 1 day 1 year, or sit on a jury and not be summoned for 2 years. I typically get 2-3 summons a year here... Luckily there's a phone system for checking to see if you're summoned, and I haven't been summoned yet, so it's not that big of a deal... However, if I actually got summoned/selected for a jury 3 times a year, that's sorta bullsh*t.

Not his fault that you and your friends were dumb enough to join the army, is it? Natural selection, we're alive, they're not. Too bad.

Commit a felony, and plea to it asap. Felons aren't allowed to serve as jurors.

If you just show up and make it clear you've already made up your mind that the person is guilty, they're not going to let you on the jury anyways. A biased jury is not indicative of a fair trial. This way you get out of it legitimately and you probably don't have to worry about jury duty ever again.

WOW, don't go down that road,I too have fought and been to war in Iraq and lost friends,I don't care for the Law or society that much,and believe me it quite refreshing not to give a Fizzile or a sizzle. Laws/rules are made to be broken. AND YES YOU might consider me SCUM, But I probably enjoy my life more than you.

LOL. Best reply so far. And well worth considering :whistling:

a chance to decide the fate of a fellow human you say, "rubs hands together" yessssss

Wow that svcks. Do what I did: Call up the Jury office and tell them that you don't want to do it now and they will let you select a week of your choosing within the next 6 months to be on Jury Duty again. I'm not making that up either. I got a summons for the week after Battlefield 3 comes out and I was like "hell no" so I called them up, now I don't have to report until the end of March :celebration:

Yeah, most places let you do that. Though if you can choose your next appearance date, be sure to pick something that's not near another "important" date since a lot of counties don't let you postpone more than once.

EVERYONE deserves freedom,and take a chill pill, People like you make the world and the miltary such a tight up there jazz place.. I believe in Anarchy now anyway,and society would be such a better place.

Basic rule of getting out of most things. If you need to lie, and it's a one time, or rare occasion feign illness. However, don't choose an actual illness, choose a symptom. And that one, singular, magical symptom? DIARRHEA! Seriously, think about it, a coworker/classmate says they don't feel good, you ask what's up. They say their sick with X you say that svcks, possibly ask what med's they'll use or if they'll go to a doctor or if they're contagious. If they just say they've been vomiting/other symptoms you may think of things that are going around that cause it. They say they're poopin their brains out with a nasty case of Diarrhea? Ya, no one wants to know anymore, conversation ends good day sir. Seriously, at work? Run to the rest room 3 or 4 times in under an hour, and I mean, get up, and make a bit of a scene, walk quickly if not half jog there, sit for 5-10 minutes, come back. Even at the most bureaucratic corporate-drone-creating soul-crushing office you will get sent home and will not be punished for this. Though, for Jury this would be a last ditch attempt, as you'd pull this day of.

As far as Jury goes, be careful with lying to get out. Best thing to do is calmly explain that you disagree with the current purpose and function of the US Justice system and that you feel anything you do hear won't matter. As such you've made up your mind that unless it is a truly heinous crime you will argue that the person should be found not-guilty as the punishment will in all likely hood be far too heavy handed in comparison to what they've done if they did indeed do it.

Throw out a couple racial slurs.

We are free, I can walk out and kill who I want how I want, the only difference from Anarchy and This government is Consequences, id rather have the Consequences

Never been to a juror summons but I imagine it to be a cool event with everyone trying to get out by yelling loud, making racist remarks and whatever else gets you kicked out.

Yeah, i think this might work

or just walk in naked except for knee high purple boots on, and a pair of underwear on your head.

Lucky to live in a country that forces people to sit on a jury that they have no interest in, have no clue who you are and are to determine your fate?
Ok then.

What are the odds that the people on the jury just flat out don't care what happens to you, and just go with the flow to avoid dragging the trial out?

The world and the people in it are not the same as they used to be, and there is no reason that I should expect anyone who is on a jury to care about the people on trial, or even make fair or good decisions with out personal bias.

It would be better if people could volunteer, and then figure out what to do with the rest of the open slots.

I have never been to, and hope I never have to be on a jury.
Mostly because I want nothing to do when it comes to deciding the fate of another human, for any reason other than self defense.


No, I would not want someone like me on my jury, simple because I would not want to be there and want to get it over with ASAP.







You sig,
Is flat offensive, the law is not always good or "right", and those who don't like how things work are not necessarily unproductive.
Anonymous and all groups like it, are simply standing up for what they believe to be right.
Just like you.

On topic OP.

I hope you can get out of it, from everything I have heard about it, its just a massive time waste and at time for some can be costly in lost wages.
There is no reason to force a person with a job and family to sit on a jury, and I am sure some people out there would love to take your place.

Woah, I feel lucky to live somewhere where I have the freedom to do as I like (within reasonable bounds) at all times. Being forced to some sort of a summons at random times sounds pretty bad but if that's the law where you are then I suppose you must do as you are told. Unless you try to get around it with tricks such as those other posters have suggested.

But all things considered you could look at this as a chance to have something hold you back from playing until most of the bugs have been reported and sorted out allowing you to have a smoother first run of the game

In ancient greece, old people were paid a daily wage to sit on the jury. Of course the tyrant (not necessarily a bad ruler btw) would give them more/less money depending on how they voted!

This has been driven way off topic.

Please stop insulting people. This is a video game forum. This is not a politics forum. If you want to air your grievances about people who shirk their civic duty, do it somewhere else.

^ This.

This works as well as the comments I made earlier.

Another thing to do is not vote, and don't register to vote. Registered voters is where they find jurors.

But it's just about to get to the good bit where all hell breaks loose :brokencomputer: