🚀 go-pugleaf

"Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<uT159.21224$X5.2459029@news2.telusplanet.net>...
> "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.

You don't know much about American law, I see.