For the Boston (Mass) Pet lovers..................

Sam I hope you don't have a cat!

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO133130/

BOSTON -- Duty calls for an East Boston resident.

Someone is getting called for jury duty...but it's no human.

A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty.

“I said, Sal, what’s this? You know, I don’t believe it I was shocked,” said Guy Esposito, Sal’s owner.

Sal’s owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: Sal really is a member of the family, so on the last Census form, Anna Esposito listed him under “pets”.

“I just wrote ‘Sal Esposito’, scratched out the ‘dog,’ and wrote, ‘cat,’” said Anna.

Anna filed for Sal’s disqualification of service. However, the jury commissioner was unmoved and denied the request.

Sal’s service date at Suffolk Superior Court is set for March 23. Anna said that if the issue isn’t cleared up by then, she will simply have to bring the cat to court.



PS I know this has nothing to do with hoops just thought it again shows how inept the system is sometimes.

beat

Beat,

Clawde and Pawline are hereby awaiting their summonses.

Sam

Sam

are those really their names?

beat

What kind of an idiot names their cat Sal Esposito?

I mean, the system is messed up - but COME ON.

Beat,

Yup. We had the names before we got the cats.

Sam

Only way you get called is if you are on the voter registration. Sounds like Chicago politics gone east. As Mayor Daley used to say "Vote early, vote often".

Ah the Windy City!

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