Murphy's Lesser-Known Laws
1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
3. Those that live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.
8. The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
That being said...by someone else by the way
BillyRoo and PoD headed out of town today, in the early am [7] to travel to the north ford because he has to appear for jury duty selection! PoD's going just for the shopping heck of it and to get out of the "four walls syndrom" that has been driving her crazy.
He's had to take the day off work [which he hasn't been back at all that long] in order that he might be honored to have to decide someone's fate? Something he is not too happy about, as his bills still have to be paid. He's hoping that his just starting to work will help him get out of it. But mostly, he really doesn't want to have to decide someone's fate!
I know somebody has to do the job but not at the expense of an innocent person who's had nothing to do the crime. It's kind of like punishing them as they are the ones that will have suffer any consequences that might stem from this trial.
We also figured that he might have been chosen just because he had been on the government's paycheck awhile back and not working meant being available?
I have never been chosen to sit on a jury and I wouldn't mind doing so now [not busy] just for the heck of it. I think it would be interesting but I too have the problem with making a final decision on their lives.
Makes one wonder how they really decide for the first pick?
Then, if they're lucky, they get to come back again for the final pick [more time off] and then have to be there for the actual trial!
They do get paid but it's minimal at the best.
Should be interesting what turns out....
1 comment:
Only once been selected for Jury Trial but as @ childhood address, was able to get out of it.
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