Dreux s Tale of Jury Duty Crockett and I were hanging out with Dreux the other day and he told us all about his experience with jury duty here in Travis county We were surprised that he was picked for the case at all being a logical engineer and all but he was His reward was sitting and listening to 5 days of civil trial strong The Suit strong The lawsuit came from what is no doubt an upsetting tale but in my opinion was frivilous all the same Essentially an F 550 work truck was making a left turn at a stop light crossing a highway in his turning lane Mind you he was actually the second car waiting for the green left arrow As the arrow turned green thus giving him the right of way the car in front of him went through the intersection and he proceeded to so the same Perpindicular to his car and coming from the left at about 55 MPH or so was another car The driver ran the red light and the right side of her car smashed into the large grill bumper of the F 550 severely injuring her passenger and backseat daughter in a carseat So much in fact that life flight was needed at the scene The woman s daughter suffered severe head trauma and will apparently never be the same again To a lesser extent this was apparently also true of the passenger Oddly enough the lawsuit actually came from the injured child s father and from the mother of the passenger They the plaintiffs were seeking a claim of negligence on behalf of the F 550 turning left claiming that he has a responsibility to ensure no cars are coming even if he has the right of way For that they attempted to justify he was 20 at fault and were seeking to award 10 000 000 in damages which results in 2 000 000 after factoring his negligent part Long story short Dreux and the 11 other members of the jury found in favor of the defendant and therefore awarded no damages to the plaintiff It seems that one of the largest points made was that by the time she ran the light all lights had been red for two seconds the defendant s light had been green for 8 seconds and the woman driver s light had been red for 10 seconds Not to mention her light had been yellow for 6 seconds prior to it turning red strong How One is Selected for Jury Duty strong There was some confusion amongst us trying to decide how one is selected for jury duty It seems that some of us believe it comes from registering to vote others believe it s merely having a license It seems to vary from state to state and possibly county to county but here are the rules for Travis County The jury wheel which is the list of potential jurors comes from three lists all registered voters in Travis County all registered voters from neighboring counties that reside within Austin city limits all persons in Travis County with either a Texas driver s license or a Department of Public Safety identification card Each year the Voter lists and DPS lists are merged by matching the names as best as is possible to minimize duplications The merged list is given to the Travis County district clerk The district clerk county clerk and sheriff then meet to reconstitute the jury wheel by replacing the old list with the new one Jury summonses are sent from the jury wheel on a random basis About 120 000 to 150 000 summonses are sent each year To read more about this visit a href http www co travis tx us district_clerk jury A1 asp http www co travis tx us district_clerk jury A1 asp a

25 Random Things About Me 1 I have seen my own sperm under a high powered NYU lab microscope It turns out there are a lot of them 2 Since it s upon us next week women enamored with Valentine s Day provide the only reason to repeal the 19th amendment Men supporting it give reason to repeal the 8th 3 My office chair is a wheelchair It s called the Breezy 550 4 I save only photos and memories everything else I m happy to throw away 5 My website kevinludlow com will someday be the largest personal website in the world It currently has over 30 000 photos on it and there are 20 000 30 000 more I still have to scan 6 Marriage is a bit like circumcision It s a silly and antiquated religious philosophy that really has no purpose in modern society and yet I m pretty sure I m shunned for believing this 7 My dream car is a mini van with a soccerball on the back containing my name 8 I ve had lots of small business start ups They ve all failed 9 I once spent 3 months working underwater as an assistant marine biologist 10 The only continent I will go through painstaking efforts to visit is Antarctica 11 I strongly oppose organized religion but am a self proclaimed Jew 12 I drive a Saturn ION ride a Suzuki SV 650 and fly a Cessna 152 13 I can pop every joint in my body 14 The larger the crowd the more excited I am to speak or perform in front of it 15 When I was 3 or 4 I told my mom I discovered a third testicle I was wrong and she just told me to tell my father 16 I wear a permanent coat of fur on my chest Pantene Pro V treated daily It has been waxed twice I cursed Kelly Clarkson throughout both of these experiences 17 I don t listen to a lot of music these days but I play the guitar and piano daily and have since I was young My favorite instrument to play is a drumkit I can usually pickup about anything and play it fairly well 18 In highschool I was a pole vaulter I was only so so at it but can assure you that learning to run with a 13 fiberglass pole that flings your body into the air was a frightening undertaking 19 I think drugs are inherently good But I blame people giving them a bad name and fault people for abusing them 20 I intend to run for President of the US some day Not necessarily to win just to officially run for the job 21 People should be characterized on what they do and how they do it not for what they wear how rich they are or what kind of car they drive 22 I have been placed in handcuffs at least half a dozen times and yet have always been able to talk my way out of it 23 There are no clocks in my house and I don t wear a watch 24 When I was 17 my dad had the sex talk with me He pulled the car over and sternly said on the topic I know what s going on and shit happens not in my house buddy Don t do it We then drove off I think this is about the only time in my life I ve been accused of something I m positive I wasn t guilty of 25 I m inherently opposed to any sort of chain letter type of thing but since so many people evidently included me in their notes I felt compelled to finally respond I believe this is the end