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On 2024-04-11 19:41:36 +0000, BTR1701 said:

> In article <rqdg1jlfmrs7011jmafvm8mdc4p70cdtq1@4ax.com>,
>  The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:34:33 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Tell the clerk "I want to be licensed as a brand-new driver and I'm hear
>>>> to take the driving test." Then surrendering your existing license and
>>>> informing the other state won't happen.
>>> 
>>> Better be careful. I'm pretty sure-- not 100%, but pretty sure-- it's
>>> illegal to have valid driver licenses from multiple states at the same
>>> time.
>>> 
>>> States share info under the Driver License Compact, so they'll know if
>>> you have a valid license elsewhere when you apply for the new one.
>> 
>> I'm waiting to get my daughter's permission to open the letter but I
>> got a letter addressed to her from the Ministry of the Attorney
>> General which is interesting since she hasn't lived her since 2014.
>> I.e. not only NOT in province but not in Canada either.
>> 
>> I plan on scanning the letter for her when I eventually open it but
>> I'm pretty sure she's not coming from Europe to attend a jury summons.
>> 
>> I've been called 3 times in the last 20 years and the first time
>> excused on compassionate grounds (I ran a family business and my
>> mother had been killed in an auto-pedestrian crash 3 weeks earlier and
>> with her passing was running the business on the first one, the second
>> was a civil jury where the case was settled out of court before trial,
>> the third I was challenged by the defence lawyer) so I wouldhave been
>> less surprised if the letter had been for me.
> 
> Now that I'm retired, I'd like to get a jury summons. Seems like an
> interesting way to spend some time. Of course I could do without all the
> extraneous hassle, like parking, sitting in waiting rooms, etc.

I've been in a jury pool one time in my life, it's been at least 12 
years ago now.

Around here -- if they still do it like they used to -- they call about 
400 people into a large auditorium to pick new pools. Then the judge 
hears all the hardship cases for those who are unable to serve, then 
they split everybody up into 4 or 5 separate pools.

I showed up in court when it was my pool's time, when the judge called 
the roll for my pool. I never had to serve on an actual jury though.

The biggest hassle was them requiring you to call in to their recorded 
message every business day to find out if you needed to come in for a 
jury selection.

I'm kind of surprised they haven't called me back to be part of a new 
pool, it's been so long since I was.

Oh yeah, they sent me a nice certificate "suitable for framing" 
thanking me for my public service after my pool's time expired.