8:58am: Jury duty = pwned & mmorpg update
I got up today and got drew to drive me to covington for the 8:30am appointment I had there as a petit juror. The drive is 60 miles total there & back. I get in, sit around with other jurors (about 150 showed up or so), and finally at a quarter to elevn the jury commisoner starts talking for a few minutes, telling us what we can expect and shit.
After she finishes talking she puts on a 20min long video that shows 3 judges telling us what we can also epect from the experience. Like, how the PA and DA will ask us questions and the judge as well. The jury commisoner then tells us this one judge will be coming in to talk with us afterwards as well.
After the movie ends I go up to the JC and mention to her that I sent in a letter and the judge denied it, and that altho I managed to get up here today, I won’t have any transportation to get home. She told me that i’d have to wait for the judge to come then talk to him about it.
At this point im kinda confused because in the video and as the JC said, if we got picked by a judge to be in a jury pool with other jurors, (not meaning youre offically on jury yet, just selected to be asked questions by PA and DA, judge etc), if we got picked, she said at that time that the judge who picked us would also talk to us as well. So now i’m thinking “ok, so if I get picked then i’ll explain to that judge my situation. I dont think this other judge coming in would handle my excuse because it wasnt one listed in the above”.
the judge comes and like the jury comissoner before, tells us a list of reasons we can use to be dismissed from jury duty.
70 yrs old or older.
convicted of a felony or have been charges pending.
Mental or physical disabilities. (I probably coulda got off with the metal one lol).
A student with student ID as proof and a letter from the school theyre attending.
After saying this, he makes everyone form a line who thinks they have a reasonable excuse and they wait. (Line was pretty long too and about 50% got dismissed).
That judge then leaves and the JC starts calling out names of whos been picked to be in the first judges jury pool.
Lemme explain something here, the JC said that if you were picked by the first judge, you’d have to wait there until being called in and asked questions, then you’d find out after if you’d been selected. If the JC was able to tell you if you had been selected then you’d have to call a # after 4:30 pm the next day and listen to a recording made by the JC that says you either have to come in the next day or you’ve been dismissed.
If you got picked by the second judge (was some woman judge, forgot her name now), then you’d be notified that you may leave immediately today and you’d have to come back at 9am tomorrow morning.
Heres the bad part. The JC didn’t tell us we’d have to come back the next morning if you got picked by that second female judge UNTIL AFTER that judge left (the one I mentioned who came earlier). If she had said it before, then I probanbly would have got in that line.
So..guess which judge I got picked for?
Yea, you guessed it, the second one. (Which was a fucking blessing now tbh).
After I got picked and those people left, i spoke to the JC and told her I had no transportation to get there tomorrow or to even get home today for that matter. She kept telling me there was nothing she could do blah blah, and that I should have told that to the judge who came there earlier.
I asked to use their phone and I called up drew and told him what she said. Well, he wasnt very happy and after talking with him a few minutes he told me quote ”Ask that JC if theres anyone there I can talk to who has some common sense”. That made me laugh, but I did tell her that.
Her facial expression as well as her coworker, mindy’s, expression was kinda lolable. After practicly begging to that JC to tell drew what she could tell me, she told him. And after she told him that she hung up on him LOL!. Well, I asked to use her phone again and she said “Call your stepfather back, tell him to come get you and we’ll find another juror to take your place tomorrow”. So, I did, and he came and got me.
Pwned!. There were 3 people in that office who heard her tell me that too. (The JC, her coworker mindy, and some older gentleman she was conversing with). So, witnesses 4tw.
K, now that thats over with, (fuck that was alot to type) I was working on my browser based mmorpg last night some more too. Got a simple chatroom setup for it (all tags filtered too for security reasons) and got a Random number guessing game added. Later today I’ll add a slots machine game and code in the anti flooding for the chatroom + forgot password feature for accounts. (Ya, I know I shoulda did those earlier).
So, thats my day for today.
Backdated and Xposted to my site.