Jury duty
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I got called for jury duty in Oakland. 
They have wifi here but it's $5.95 per day.
Can you imagine, here we are doing our civic duty, taxpayers all of us, and they want us to pay to get online. It's a crime I tell you! Put me on a jury to decide this and I'll vote to convict. 
I served on a jury in 1996 and wrote up the experience.
Update at 10AM: They called the first group, I was not in it. Is this good news or bad? (I'd rather not serve this time.)
Update at 10:30AM: I'm in the second group. Here we go. But we don't have to be here until 1PM. So now what? Oy.
Update at 10:45AM: All the group 3 people were excused. Envy.
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