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"Bob Ward" <bob.ward@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 05:53:30 GMT, "Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >-:
> >-:"Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message
> >-:news:756bd789.0208092005.77260e85@posting.google.com...
> >-:> deja_bhoot2000@yahoo.com (Bhoot Nath) wrote in message
> >-:news:<309e7c98.0208091319.2baa4b6b@posting.google.com>...
> >-:> > I live in the southern most part of Alameda County in the SF Bay
Area,
> >-:and
> >-:> > today I received a Jury Summons for jury duty in OAKLAND.
> >-:> >
> >-:> > Here are the problems:
> >-:> >
> >-:> > 1. My wife and I have an infant, and we have only 1 car. Wife
commutes
> >-:to
> >-:> > the silicon valley. I bike to my job in the same town we live in.
No
> >-:local
> >-:> > bus service. The only way to go got jury duty will be to (a) take a
cab;
> >-:or
> >-:> > (b) a cab to Bart, and Bart to Oakland, and then walk to
courthouse.
> >-:> >
> >-:> > 2. I am a so called exempt employee at work (i.e., no overtime
etc).
> >-:> > While employer will give time off for Jury Duty, when I get back, I
> >-:would
> >-:> > have to finish all the accumulated work (plus more, as people not
> >-:present
> >-:> > in meetings always get assigned extra work!). And there will not be
any
> >-:> > overtime or anything.
> >-:> >
> >-:> > 3. Oakland is basically a place to be avoided: most areas are
filthy,
> >-:> > dirty, stink; drug dealing and shooting is rampant. They have had
about
> >-:> > 100 murders already this year.
> >-:> >
> >-:> > Are these valid reasons to get excused?
> >-:> >
> >-:> > And why is the compensation so ridiculous: 15 cents a mile ONE WAY
ONLY,
> >-:> > and ZERO for the first day, $15 for additional days. So, 5 days of
jury
> >-:> > service means $60 for 40 hours -- $1.50/hour, less than 1/5 of the
> >-:> > California MINIMUM wage! This in a CAPITALIST country ...
legislators
> >-:pay
> >-:> > themselves 100 times that amount!!
> >-:> >
> >-:> > Bhoot
> >-:>
> >-:> Tell them you moved away and are no longer a resident of Oakland.
And
> >-:> do cancel your voter registration there, for Pete's sake.
> >-:
> >-:Counselling someone to commit a felony, I see. You are one fine
citizen.
> >-:
> >-:
> >-:
> On the other hand, you are NOT a US citizen, so there!

Dildohead.  Similar irresponsible types in Canada try to avoid jury duty.
They worry so much about their RIGHTS but when it comes to honouring their
RESPONSIBILITIES as Canadian citizens..now that's a problem for them.


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