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[camwyn]

I got jury duty this week, and I was seated on an actual jury. It's a civil case. Beyond that the judge says we're not allowed to talk about anything to do with the trial until it's over, so I'm telling folks who ask that, once again, the question of Santa Claus' legal identity is in court.

We're back to court on Monday. Don't know how long it's likely to last. Can't be worse than that case in Jersey City back in 2010.

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[leeshajoy]

On an Anything But The Court Case note, have you seen the new Ghostbusters trailer yet?

[camwyn]

Not yet. Gonna need to watch that tonight when I get home.

[telophase]

The last time I was called, I got on the jury and it was a wrencher for me (sexual predator case, with a new legal thing that was being tested for the first time). At least it only took 3 days, after being projected to take 5.

[camwyn]

Unless a meteor hits the court building or something, I don't think there is any physical way that this trial can last longer than the Jersey City one. And it's nowhere near as stupid as that one. ("Waaah! I have pots and pots of money, and they advertised fantastic views for their condos, so I bought one, but then they put up another building in the middle of my fantastic view even though they never told me they were going to do that!" "We did so tell you! ... if you went and looked at our plans in a very obscure part of the property offices that no reasonable person would think to ask to look in." "BOTH OF YOU ARE IDIOTS. Take your money and have parties where people wear silly hats and push pianos into the harbor, and leave the rest of us alone.")

[telophase]

Our recent HOA meetings have people like that, only without as much money. I don't know what the original development company told the people who bought their plots at the edge of the development, but the space next to those lots was and is zoned commercial. Now that a grocery store is finally going in there, there's a few people who get all het up in meetings over the potential noise and lights. Toby and I just sit there going "You bought a house next to a commercially zoned lot! What did you expect?!"

We bought our house knowing that it backed onto a relatively busy road. It's like if we complained about the traffic.

Actually, I have no doubt that the original developers stretched the truth to breaking point--I hear they showed potential buyers a map with two potential routes for the new tollway that bounds one side of our development and assured them that the route farther away made more sense for building, when the city was actually planning on the closer one that eventually got built--but you'd think that you'd at least go look up the zoning yourself instead of trusting that the people who want your money would tell you the entire truth. (We did!)