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Sal Esposito is called to fulfill his jury duty in Boston on March 23. He is trying to avoid it otherwise he would need a ride to go to court and a lot of help from his owner because Sal is a cat.
Since Sal is a member of the Esposito family, his owner Anna Esposito put his name on the last census form as a family pet. She crossed out “dog” and added “cat” instead.
Though she attempted to have him excused from the court, she had to pick a reason to state why Sal is not able to attend his jury duty. According to the form that she had to submit, a number of choices were provided to explain the reason of disqualification: old age, illness, a convicted felon, and do not speak English. Ana simply chose the most obvious reason – do not speak English.
The request was then denied and the jury commission was unmoved. Sal is still ordered to attend his jury duty as originally scheduled.
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i will say this is th most outragous thing i heard and the courts saying no!…since when do the courts speak cat! well once they see sal they will i hope say sorry! dumb humans lol…sal looked very scarred in th video he probably did not want to go to court either!!!
wHY NOT. hE’LL BE able to calm the nerves of the others. That’s jury duty, too.
I think the thing that gets me all confused is that fact that all she did was cross out Dog and put Cat… does that mean Dogs are normally expected to make it to jury duty?? lol
The hell? The census allows dogs as pets but not cats?
miaoooo… miaw meow mew-mew miaoooo !! understand???
My commets I love cats! they are very smart pets, but not enough to serve as jury duty due language problems but why you not taked to and ask for the pay for the service for the CAT.
Yes, our tax dollars at work. I would love to have a cat or two on a jury if I were on trial. They have evolved to the point where they no longer have to come back as humans. I think it's safe to assume they're wiser than any of us. After all, we're still stuck here as people.
Well thats what she gets for being a moron, and insisting on listing her cat on there.
Maybe next time she'll try to fill out a form correctly.