Advice on how to get out of jury duty.

curmudgeoness

eeriepadave said:

Poncier said:

Act like you have Tourette's and keep blurting out stuff like "Judge is an asshole!", "whoop whoop guilty!" "Fry the bastard!" "Qantas never crashed"

reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman pretends to have tourette's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1KMYvqkeo&t

Not what I expected to find in a thread on jury duty....

But, as the mother of a young man with severe Tourette's, I'll say two things:

1) That South Park episode actually does an excellent job of describing life with TS, if you watch it and pay attention.

2) TS isn't funny, it's painful and isolating.

As for jury duty, I don't think they're even empaneling juries locally right now. The call room holds about 500 people, so, yeah, corona central.

deadendp

curmudgeoness said:

eeriepadave said:

Poncier said:

Act like you have Tourette's and keep blurting out stuff like "Judge is an asshole!", "whoop whoop guilty!" "Fry the bastard!" "Qantas never crashed"

reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman pretends to have tourette's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1KMYvqkeo&t

Not what I expected to find in a thread on jury duty....

But, as the mother of a young man with severe Tourette's, I'll say two things:

1) That South Park episode actually does an excellent job of describing life with TS, if you watch it and pay attention.

2) TS isn't funny, it's painful and isolating.

As for jury duty, I don't think they're even empaneling juries locally right now. The call room holds about 500 people, so, yeah, corona central.

@curmudgeoness

I'm sorry. I know my daughter's brother also has Tourette's.  Between Tourette's, ADHD and OCD, he and his family moved because the parents of the sports teams he was on had some FB discussion thing going on about how they wanted to get him kicked off the teams. Tourette's only caused more people to shut him out. However, he has graduated from high school and gone on to the Army. He appears to be doing well. Kiddo needed a break. 

F Me In The Brain

A boy on our nephews baseball team had tourettes and the kids were actually really good with him.  Was nice to see.  The way he kind of went with whatever was going on was impressive.  
No idea how he does in school or wherever else but he was an awful baseball player but accepted as a normal goofy kid on a team loaded with them

I believe I have at least another year before they can call me again - we don't pay for time off for it, either.