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Jury duty! That's brilliant! The only other location I came up with was hospital waiting rooms, but those have the disadvantage of being socially inappropriate,

by jgrall 12y ago

Jury duty! That's brilliant! The only other location I came up with was hospital waiting rooms, but those have the disadvantage of being socially inappropriate, in addition to exposing you to possible infection! For Jury Duty, they don't check if you've been assigned to a case? You can just show up?

fsk 12y ago
In NYC, when I was on Jury Duty, they checked my invitation slip at the security checkpoint. Due to security paranoia nowadays, I doubt you would be able to do it. Jury Duty = judges and lawyers and important people, so restricted access DMV = only peons work there, so you can walk right in
- gmays 12y ago
  Yeah, I can imagine in NYC things are different. I live in a town of about 50,000 though the courthouse is still a pretty good size with a couple hundred for jury duty.
gmays 12y ago
It depends on your court house I guess. I typically just go in the back door so I can be in the waiting room before anyone else (the jury duty line in the front is massive). It's secured, so I just wait for someone else to walk in and follow them in or ask a passerby to let me in. They never ask to see the jury duty slip at the back door, just a metal detector/security search. Also, there's usually other stuff going on in a courthouse aside from jury duty. For example, there's family law and other offices that you could say you have an appointment there. The key is to just look respectable (clean haircut, nice clothes, nice watch) and confidently state where you're headed. Besides, it's a public building, it's not like it's some secured facility that's illegal to enter. If you're unsure just google your local courthouse and see if there's anywhere to make appointments, or at the very least see which offices are in there. Then go to the courthouse and if they ask for a reason say you're there to visit soandso (the name/office you got on the website). The worse they can say is no.

by jgrall 12y ago

fsk 12y ago

In NYC, when I was on Jury Duty, they checked my invitation slip at the security checkpoint. Due to security paranoia nowadays, I doubt you would be able to do it. Jury Duty = judges and lawyers and important people, so restricted access DMV = only peons work there, so you can walk right in

gmays 12y ago
Yeah, I can imagine in NYC things are different. I live in a town of about 50,000 though the courthouse is still a pretty good size with a couple hundred for jury duty.

gmays 12y ago

It depends on your court house I guess. I typically just go in the back door so I can be in the waiting room before anyone else (the jury duty line in the front is massive). It's secured, so I just wait for someone else to walk in and follow them in or ask a passerby to let me in. They never ask to see the jury duty slip at the back door, just a metal detector/security search. Also, there's usually other stuff going on in a courthouse aside from jury duty. For example, there's family law and other offices that you could say you have an appointment there. The key is to just look respectable (clean haircut, nice clothes, nice watch) and confidently state where you're headed. Besides, it's a public building, it's not like it's some secured facility that's illegal to enter. If you're unsure just google your local courthouse and see if there's anywhere to make appointments, or at the very least see which offices are in there. Then go to the courthouse and if they ask for a reason say you're there to visit soandso (the name/office you got on the website). The worse they can say is no.