Jury Service (Do NOT turn this into a 'how to get out of jury service' thread)

Quartz said:
With my prostate issues this is a real concern for me. I actually mentioned this very possibility in a letter to my doctor. I'm on various medicines but when the urge comes it cannot be denied for very long. I think that I'll simply alert the court to the issue and hope they will treat it as any other disability.
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This is the underlining reason why I don't go to Courts with my bosses.
I know I've asked the question above because I've never asked them about how long for a pee.
My body does strange things, if I can't go for a pee/poo I really want one and it will kill me however if I know a toilet is close I can sit there for ages.
I'm afraid toilet duties are an overriding factor in my life and has been for decades, I'm sitting here waiting for a number two and won't leave the house until it happens.
Now I'm on Mounjaro for uncontrolled diabetes and very high HbA1c it has got worse.
 
First of all I haven't read the whole thread so sorry if this has come up. I've always been a bit concerned I'll get called up and I'm not sure if my disability will disqualify me for Jury service.
 
Cromulent said:
First of all I haven't read the whole thread so sorry if this has come up. I've always been a bit concerned I'll get called up and I'm not sure if my disability will disqualify me for Jury service.
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Depends what it is and if you actually want to do jury service.
 
.... and just a gentle reminder of the thread subject, we don't want to end up in the press again ;-)
 
Could depend on the court, but when I did Jury service if you needed a bathroom break you could call over (well indicate) to the court usher you needed something, tell them and apparently you would be allowed to go. I say apparently because no one actually had to do it. Sessions for me were 3 hours or so then lunch, then another 3 hours or so then done for the day.

Whether having toilet issues is enough to get out of it, who knows. A good reason for being excused seems to be all over the place. I was "randomly" picked a second time and got excused from that (won't say how or why here) and my excusal email was one from the "central summoning authority" or something like that and another was from the one that was local to me. So might depend on the how fussy the local authority is, maybe they are bit lenient if your court is in a high population area so letting a few escape isn't a problem.

Also as it was brought up, I don't like that Judge moaning about people not doing it, it's their duty blah blah. Maybe if they actually paid people, more would be inclined to do it, wonder how duty bound he would feel if he was on minimum wage or a 0 hour contract or barely getting by for whatever reason and someone comes along and says "you have to do this and we won't even pay you what you are losing". Man is just completely out of touch.
 
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Random highbrow question

What happens if you’re on the jury and need a massive turd mid trial, like emergency turd stylee ? Do you just have to hold it in forever or do they stop the trial and allow you to go to the bog ?
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Lol, you even replied in it, I thought it was me with dementia :)
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Malevolence said:
Yeah, that about sums my head up after the week I've had in the ED. :p
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In fairness, that wasn't the actual thread that got the attention of the press and was ultimately expunged from the annuls of OC. Twas another, full of all sorts of jury service abscondment and skulduggery, not.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Random highbrow question

What happens if you’re on the jury and need a massive turd mid trial, like emergency turd stylee ? Do you just have to hold it in forever or do they stop the trial and allow you to go to the bog ?
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When I did it, you could alert the court usher and say you needed a break. Might vary from court to court.
 
Thankfully I've been excused twice from jury duty when I asked, got called about 3 years ago and just my luck, I was called again a few weeks ago. Waste of bloody time, instead of asking random members of the public, how about hiring people on a permanent basis who want to do the damn job, instead of being forced into it like military service.
 
Raiden85 said:
Thankfully I've been excused twice from jury duty when I asked, got called about 3 years ago and just my luck, I was called again a few weeks ago. Waste of bloody time, instead of asking random members of the public, how about hiring people on a permanent basis who want to do the damn job, instead of being forced into it like military service.
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Because rightfully people get judged by a community of their peers. Not an institution that's open to internal biases
 
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