The AP has a quick-hit on the practice of sneaking up on people to give them jury summonses.
Madeline Byrne was making a quick trip to the grocery store to buy some cheese when a sheriff’s deputy approached her car in the parking lot and slipped something through her open window. It was a jury summons.
Ms. Byrne, 64, was ordered to report for jury duty a little more than an hour later at the Lee County courthouse in Sanford, N.C. When Ms. Byrne protested, the deputy told her, “Be there or you’ll be in contempt.”
I think this is just an extension of the way we’re trending — I mean, first you could call a special number to get up-to-the-minute sports scores, then you could get phone calls in the car, then you could carry your phone around with you, now you can check your email from your phone or another device.
Everybody’s all uppity about how we’re losing human contact. Well, here it is, coming to a parking lot near you, or wherever is most convenient. You don’t even have to check your mailbox! Or your inbox! Or your fax machine!
Other things already delivered directly to us:
- groceries
- rental movies
- books
Here are a few more things that I think we should see being hand-delivered to us, wherever we are, for the sake of convenience:
- prescriptions
- ballots
- warrants
- babies
- opinions
I am starting a campaign* and this is its slogan:
“Ah, the future! Here it is, you bastards; embrace it!”
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*Lies. That is not my real campaign. My real campaign is: “Ah, the future! It’s getting hairy, so let’s offset some of the crap with free scratch cards.” Under this campaign, police officers roaming around giving jury summonses would be required to give out at least as many lotto scratch cards.
