Cat summoned for jury duty; appeal to disqualify rejected

[justgin]

More than likely it will be an air of total indifference regarding the entire proceedings.

[Alcoth]

More than likely it will be an air of total indifference regarding the entire proceedings.

Why do they have to be so pompous?

Cat they all just get along?

[justgin]

Why do they have to be so pompous?

Cat they all just get along?

Yeah, i can see it now: the kitty sitting in his seat, oblivous to the proceedings and testimonies, with one leg in the air licking his....you know. Yeah, that's total contempt for the justice system. They deserve it if they make kitty go through with his duty to society.

[Sparko]

Proof that dogs are smarter than cats:

http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermai...ay/000098.html

Dog wiggles out of jury duty


CARMICHAEL, Calif. -- A resident of Sacramento County recently heard the news that she would not have to attend jury duty,
and you could see how happy she was by how much she wagged her tail.

Lucy Marie Gordon, a chocolate Labrador retriever that lives in Carmichael,
was recently summoned by Sacramento County for jury duty. Somehow, county records show a registered voter
named Lucille Marie Gordon at the Gordon family address.

Lucy's owner, Caryn Gordon, thought it would be easy to resolve by phone; however,
a courthouse staff member didn't believe her.


"I asked him what I needed to do to prove that she is a dog. And I said, 'Would a picture be sufficient?'
And he said, 'No,'" Gordon said.


Gordon was told to get documentation from Lucy's vet.

"And so we had him, had our vet fax over (the documents), certifying that Lucy was a female canine.

[Oolon Colluphid]

In other news:-

DOG DISMAYED TO BE ISSUED WITH SPEEDING TICKET

Clearly a case of woof justice.

Hopefully no cats on the jury.

In an alternative universe cats aren't merely jurors but also judges. Chief Justice Pussy sentences Schrodinger to a short term stay in a box with some radioactive material and a vial of poison.

[Astra49]

Yeah, i can see it now: the kitty sitting in his seat, oblivous to the proceedings and testimonies, with one leg in the air licking his....you know. Yeah, that's total contempt for the justice system. They deserve it if they make kitty go through with his duty to society.

Love it!!!


Hope the cat isn't on heat could be a real mess if the Judge is a cougar has her claws out for the defendant.

[Nicholas]

While many may be caterwauling that this is somehow a catastrophic failure of the justice system, I for one welcome our new feline juror overlords.

[Crow]

Because, at the time, ATT (then Bell) charged extra for an unlisted phone number, I listed my phone under my dog's registered name.

Imagine the chortles when one Ch AA Mr Mizzou, American Foxhound, got called to jury duty.

I mailed them a copy of Mizzou's pedigree. Never heard anything more about it.

Several people I know got jury duty notices for their minor kids. Rumor had it that a stripper club got called to jury duty as well.

[Sparko]

I thought you had to be a registered voter to be called to Jury Duty. Otherwise how do they keep from calling up kids or noncitizens?

[Alcoth]

...how do they keep from calling up kids or noncitizens?

Apparently they don't. :/

[Crow]

I thought you had to be a registered voter to be called to Jury Duty. Otherwise how do they keep from calling up kids or noncitizens?

In Pennsylvania, they used the phone book at times. They called up all sorts of non-registered voter people and things.