My Civic Duty (Up yours, Massachusetts.)

DackAttac · Post by **DackAttac** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:09 pm

I'm 19 and attending college outside of my home state of NY, in Boston. Today I went to my mailbox with the intention of retrieving my rented DVD from NetFlix (which, to protect the withered-but-still-present veneer of my masculinity, will not be named) and a Christmas card a friend sent. I picked up my copy of what is most assuredly an action-packed shoot-em-up and most definitely not a romantic comedy that establishes women's rights in society (that I would have rented out of pure curiosity and boredom and most indubitably not out of interest, if I had rented it at all), and a white envelope. Ah, tidings of holiday cheer. [rips open envelope]

"Jury Duty: Your Civic Obligation"

Hm. Unless Christmas spirit now feels like getting assrammed by an assortment of power tools, this is not the card I was expecting.

So, in short, the fact I don't even technically live in Boston doesn't do me much good, I still have to show up at the courthouse February 8th. And, in the event that my emergency lines don't work ("Whoops! I left my white power badge at home. How silly of me. Hey, you know who was the man? Hitler."), I may actually have to (Heaven help the defendant) actively participate in the judging of a trial.

Anyone have any jury tales/horror stories, be they first-hand or shared?

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:13 pm

I guy I know in Georgia just got a jury duty notice, too. Crazy.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:17 pm

From what I understand if you don't vote you have a better chance of not getting called in. Too bad I voted. :(

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:26 pm

I got my Jury Duty notice in the mail today.

Eerie.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:30 pm

So what was the movie?

DackAttac · Post by **DackAttac** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:02 pm

plasticwingsband wrote:I got my Jury Duty notice in the mail today.

Eerie.

So did one of my classmates. I wonder if they do these in rounds or something.

chriscaffee wrote:So what was the movie?

Um... Terminatrix Bill 3. Special Edition now with more bullets.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:11 pm

I thought you could appeal to get out of jury duty. I did something like that when I got one of those letters. All I had to do was fill out some form online and gave them a bullshit reason about why I couldn't make it.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:16 pm

But it's your Civic Duty!

Post by **Esrever** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:49 pm

I don't know how it works down there, but up here it's very easy to weasel out of Jury Duty as long as you are a full time student.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:00 am

Um... Terminatrix Bill 3. Special Edition now with more bullets.

You should have just said Commando. But seriously let's have it. I watched The Interpreter and Flightplan it couldn't be worse then those two.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:24 am

Hey Flight Plan wasn't complete and utter shit. I still don't understand why a propulsion engineer would know so much about the inner workings of a plane though. She should have just designed the engines really. Either way, it wasn't a total failure of a movie, but I only saw it cause Lord of War wasn't in the theater anymore.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:53 am

Lord of War was nothing more then a propoganda piece. By which I mean, in the theaters we had an announcement that a professor was going to talk about the gun trade after the flick. If that wasn't enough the opening scene pretty much told the entire story.

As for Flightplan? Yeah it really wasn't that good. I didn't feel it was a good suspense movie because they didn't give you any clues at all. They just kept it ambiguous until the last twenty minutes or so and then threw everything in your face. I prefer M. Night's style where everything is right in front of your face the entire time, or perhaps 24 where they give you a bit of information and then drop another twist to keep you hanging. But this was just waiting around for an hour and some change while nothing happens until they finally spill all the beans.

Oh, and the acting wasn't compelling and neither were the Nine-Eleven references. Plausbility factor, as you already mentioned was not so hot. The air-frame was designed by a civil engineer and the main character is obviously a mechanical engineer. Then when she does all that, you know stuff, we are supposed to believe that somehow an ME has the skills of an electrical engineer as well. How many degrees does this woman have? And then when you finally realize the entire plot it suddenly becomes so ridiculously contrived that you almost have to laugh.

The only saving grace was the flight attendant with the large breasts.

Oh yeah. And in Lord of War they do x-ray a caskett through airport security. Aren't movies just funny like that?

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:53 pm

I never got to see Lord of War, but I doubt I will now. Did you happen to see History of Violence? Now that is one retarded movie.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:11 pm

Light Speed wrote:I never got to see Lord of War, but I doubt I will now. Did you happen to see History of Violence? Now that is one retarded movie.

A retarded, overrated movie. And too unnecessarily gory.

And Flightplan was a frustrating experience that culminated into a steaming shit fest. As somebody mentioned previously, the twist isn't even hinted at.

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My Civic Duty (Up yours, Massachusetts.)

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