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RX-7_TWINTURBO
12-09-2003, 09:32 PM
stupid city of calgary ...WHY ME ?!?!?!

Any clue what im gonna get paid for this BS ?

FiveFreshFish
12-09-2003, 09:34 PM
No speaky English! :D

kaput
12-09-2003, 09:36 PM
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szw
12-09-2003, 09:39 PM
Are you serious? I think it sounds so fun!

Weapon_R
12-09-2003, 09:40 PM
Originally posted by kaput
I don't think you get paid, do you?

you do.

DUBBED
12-09-2003, 09:42 PM
Originally posted by szw
Are you serious? I think it sounds so fun!


only if you get to do a murder trial or something crazy like that... anything would just be boring...

3G
12-09-2003, 10:02 PM
how do you get those? i want one :D

DeSi
12-09-2003, 10:03 PM
i would love to do jury duty, i hope its as fun as the movies

Team_Mclaren
12-09-2003, 10:12 PM
dont mean to whore your thread but RX-7_TWINTURBO plz check your pm!:)

Super_Geo
12-09-2003, 10:14 PM
Just tell them you're racist and sexist.

davidI
12-09-2003, 10:16 PM
Originally posted by Super_Geo
Just tell them you're racist and sexist.

walk in with a sheet over your head...maybe draw some fake swastika tatoos on your hand and you'll be set.

kaput
12-09-2003, 10:25 PM
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Ferio_vti
12-09-2003, 10:44 PM
Tell them you know the person on trial.

RX-7_TWINTURBO
12-09-2003, 11:07 PM
Originally posted by kaput
How much do you get paid??

doin some research and it looks like $40.00 per day
fuckin crappy...

ShOwOfF
12-09-2003, 11:10 PM
Plus you get paid by your employer if you are scheduled to appear on days that you are scheduled to work. I think. :dunno:

RX-7_TWINTURBO
12-09-2003, 11:13 PM
Originally posted by ShOwOfF
Plus you get paid by your employer if you are scheduled to appear on days that you are scheduled to work. I think. :dunno:

i think that is optional and up to your employer.
and my cheap ass company probably aint gonna pay me shit

Ben
12-09-2003, 11:24 PM
Outstanding, Ive always wanted to do Jury Duty!

Aleks
12-09-2003, 11:42 PM
I got one of those and just told them I was in the midst of my finals at the U and couldn't show. They exempted me :D

rage2
12-09-2003, 11:43 PM
Just make sure you don't get picked for the Asian gang trials... I heard those suck :(.

JAYMEZ
12-10-2003, 12:25 AM
If you have to support kids or pay rent and your hard on cash you dont have to do it, Or if your a doctor , farmer , dentist , Pilot you dont have to.

Khyron
12-10-2003, 12:37 AM
Just cause you are called, doesn't mean you're selected. Each side can veto several people.

I was called for it a few years back - in the end, we went through all the garbage and one of the lawyers was a no show or something (guess they had plea'd out earlier). You get paid like 5 bucks an hour - don't quit the day job.

However you could also look at it as doing your job for society - a price for not living in some backwater anarchy.

Khyron

Weasel
12-10-2003, 12:44 AM
They pick hundreds of jurors each day and send them all a letter, you show up and fill out some forms, just make sure you fill it with racist comments and ignorance and they will never send you for the secondary selection. If you do get selected just say something about the defendant that you think he's guilty because of who he is and your out.
Or you could do the honest thing and just go through the process and maybe help out the community you live in by following the process. They don't want people who don't want to be there since you will fuck up the system.

rice_eater
12-10-2003, 02:19 AM
man i always wanted to be picked for that:(

ryder_23
12-10-2003, 02:26 AM
Originally posted by Mx6GtTurbo
how do you get those? i want one :D

Be over 18, and its basically pickd outa a hat

sputnik
12-10-2003, 08:40 AM
many employers will still pay you... especially if you are on salary... otherwise you will just get the meager jury duty wage... makes you kinda wish you had a good employer huh?

depending on the case... it can be pretty insane... a friend of mine is on the jury for the Ira Morehouse murder... and he is pretty stressed about it... and the things that he has seen and heard are insane...

today is their sequestor day... so he might be camping out with the rest of the jury for a few days depending on how things go.

if you are dead set against being in the jury... just show up dressed poorly and look stupid and the lawyers may not choose you... just because you were summoned doesnt mean you will actually serve in the jury... usually 20 people are summonned and only 12 serve.

Altezza
12-10-2003, 11:45 AM
Don't worry...your health and life insurance will kick in once the guy on trial gets out of jail and tracks down everyone in the jury.