Jury Duty

While I have my own story from a jury duty summons I received...I am going to share this one that my sister Elizabeth saw last night on the Colbert Report.

Erik Slye is a 36-year-old man from Montana that really, really didn’t want to have to do jury duty. When he received his summons for jury duty, he took a unique approach to the whole issue. He sent a notarized affidavit to the court explaining why he should be excused from jury duty, in NO uncertain terms.

The caustic notarized statement that Slye wrote, with his wife’s assistance, resulted in him having to apologize in order to not be cited with criminal failure to appear. However, he was excused from having to serve.

Slye is an automobile painter who lives in Belgrade, Montana. He received his jury summons in January 2009 from the Gallatin County District Court. Here is his response…

"Apparently you morons didn't understand the first time. I CANNOT take time off from work. I'm not putting my family's well being at stake to participate in this crap. I don’t believe in our ‘justice’ system and I don’t want to have a god damned thing to do with it. Jury duty is a complete waste of time. I’d rather count the wrinkles on my dog’s balls than sit on a jury. Get it through your thick skulls. Leave me the f***alone.”

I can’t believe someone actually notarized this! Ha!