I hated jury duty. I live in a small rural community, and it blew me away hearing some of the cases the DA presented. A couple of the people I knew in-directly, one guy kidnapped and raped a little girl, whacked her in the head with a rock and left her for dead on the side of the highway...and he lived like five minutes down the road from me. Firing squads, I say...lock and load.

 

It’s easy for me to get out of jury duty:


Court: Burt what do you do for work?

Me: I am a product line manager in lean manufacturing.

Court: Can you listen to the facts presented and render a fair decision?

Me: I can do better then that. I will apply some lean manufacturing tools, as in single piece flow. To be more blunt I can listen to the facts, judge the ****, and would recommend we shoot his @ss right in court. The **** is guilty as hell and I think we should just use our time and resources as efficient as possible. Do you supply guns and ammunition or do we have to supply our own?

 

I got a letter one time a few years back for jury duty. There was a form to fill out and send back to them. If you were unable to serve you needed to state your reason. I put down that I was the only source of income for my family of 5 living below the poverty level and if I lost any time on my job my family would go hungry. Never heard anything back