Finding My Civic Fortitude….

Yes, the train has returned from his civic duty and paid it back ten fold. I was even elected Jury Forman. Slight pause here for you all to laugh……………………………………. Ok, I don’t know how that happened but I seemed to be the smartest kid in there. I would love to report I was on a nice racketeering charge or a vice sting but I can’t. We got to handle the case of the little Pilipino woman who dropped a beat down on her landlord (a 6 foot Dutchman who was basically Joe in 20 years.) I wanted to vote not guilty for the mere fact she laid an Enter the dragon roundhouse to the face but we have to let the facts speak. Needless to say this was a case that never should have gone to court and was mostly he said she said and a phone call to 9-1-1 that brought the police out who then arrested the woman thus starting the chain of events that got the Train a week off from work. I thought why am I here for this? Can’t the city find a better case or save the money and build a better viaduct or pay for a cable internet connection in the jury lobby or pay me more then 10$ a day. We deliberated for 2 days on this thing only to come up with a hung jury because one person didn’t feel the assault was the bad. I realized I failed in my attempt to be Henry Fonda. All in all it was interesting and frustrating at the same time. Once you get in the court room you really feel like you have a little window into something rarely seen by most people unless you are Kevin and have seen every episode of Law and Order and Murder She Wrote. Alas, there was no Chewbacca defense but I was hoping for one in the closing arguments. Speaking of that we did have a hot young prosecuting attorney who just made the day bearable with her Angie Harmon looks and her Perry Mason abilities I wanted to keep the case going. No one ever said “objection” quite like her.