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neffarious

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I received 4 knives from Carboniferous. My wife's dog chewed all the boxes up. I absolutely love the canoe and small clip Rough Riders, who'da thunk it. One is a Queen 70 in black Delrin. I have a Queen Sodbuster already that I carry often, and I prefer the micarta of my current one to the gifted one. The other is a mystery knife. if i still had the box, which I don't, I could tell you. It's a lock back, which i have found i am not a fan of in traditional knifes. If you can ID it it would be appreciated and it wins' you an additional entry. The Queen is a great user, D2 and one shoulder is sharpened a bit more than the other. It's got a pretty strong pull, maybe a 7?. That being said, still a great user. Horrible quickly taken cell phone pics using a flash:





So the rules:

I just got a Jury Summons. I want to know *IF* you received one would you be excited about going or not and why? Assume Your employer pays for your time. If you want to take up the second entry just post the name of the knife as a second post. I'll use a random number generator for the winner.


As a side note one of my employees was selected last month. The charges: Kidnapping, Prostitution and Human Trafficking. :eek: He was let go at the 11th hour and removed from the case. No reason given.

I forgot the end date. Let's say next Friday 6-10-16
 
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I'm totally in, and I think I would be psyched because I've never been selected for jury duty before and I think it's an important responsibility as a citizen.
 
I would be quite excited to go to court, if paid for time off.
I wear a uniform and work outdoors all day at one job, and work carpentry for another, so getting to dress up in a suit and sit indoors all day would be a nice change of pace. I would also love to have the experience of being on a jury.
Thank you for this GAW, and have fun on the jury :D


Connor
 
I've been selected for jury duty once. On that day, I was paid by my employer to drink free coffee and sit on Wi-Fi for 4 hours before being told to go home. I would gladly do that again. Now, if I knew going in that it would be a month long trial in which a person's life was on the line, I'd have to think a bit harder about that one.

Thanks for the chance at the GAW, and good luck with your civic duty.
 
Wurrwulf said:
I've been selected for jury duty once. On that day, I was paid by my employer to drink free coffee and sit on Wi-Fi for 4 hours before being told to go home. I would gladly do that again. Now, if I knew going in that it would be a month long trial in which a person's life was on the line, I'd have to think a bit harder about that one.

Thanks for the chance at the GAW, and good luck with your civic duty.
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I'm in.
I've never gotten jury duty as I'm only 21, but if I did I'd like to be summoned alongside my dad so I could see the reaction when he tells them " I was trained to kill people and blow crap up in the army " as he always does and has never had to be a jury member once in his life.😁😁😁
I'm not 100% sure, but the lockback looms like a rough rider knife.
 
The daily jury fee around here is ten bucks a day, so you cannot make up for lost pay. I have picked enough juries over the years, and tried enough cases in front of them to know how the sausage is made. Besides, there isn't a prosecutor in town who would let me sit on a jury, or a defense lawyer either.

Please count me in anyway.
 
I'm in.

I just received a Jury Summons for next week, actually. Still not sure if I'm actually required to attend; we are supposed to call in the day before to find out. At first, I was excited to go because I've never served on a Jury. Now, I don't want to go because I'm supposed to start a new job on the day of Court, and I teach a class that night for which I'd need to find a substitute.
 
Seeing as how I've just won another GAW, please don't count this as an entry! But as for jury duty, well, I've got a story.

Like most everyone who was old enough at the time, I can say exactly where I was at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: the jury selection room in the Bergen County, NJ courthouse in Hackensack. It was my first time reporting for jury duty, and what a day it was.

You weren't supposed to have newspapers or any kind of electronics in the room, but at some point, I started hearing whispering behind me. Someone had a phone and had heard something about a plane hitting the Twin Towers, a Piper Cub, maybe? By this time they were already calling names of people who were to go to different courtrooms for jury pools, and my name had been called.

But suddenly, the Assignment Judge steps up to the podium. She is in tears, visibly shaken and trying to keep it together. She speaks into the PA mic, saying, "We will not panic. We are Americans! We're going to evacuate the courthouse, please leave in orderly fashion. Thank you all for your service, you are dismissed." I still don't know what the heck she's talking about. But if I wasn't panicking before, I am now. What, I wondered, could this be?

The evacuation wasn't orderly at all, but rather, it was chaos. Out in the corridor, as I'm waiting for the crowd to approach the stairs, I pass a few people huddled on the side of the hallway. One woman is saying, "The whole $%@^ing thing came down? THE WHOLE THING?!?" She's crying too, and extremely agitated.

Not until I got out to the car and turned on the radio did I really understand what had happened. From the courthouse, I went to my office which wasn't far from the courthouse. The office overlooked Teterboro Airport and, beyond that, the western skyline of Manhattan. The few people who were left were gathered at the windows, staring across the Hudson River at the massive plumes of smoke wafting from lower Manhattan. No one was speaking.

I called home; the wife was near hysterical and begging me to please come home. They'd said on TV that they still didn't know if there were more hijacked planes and that the USAF had scrambled fighters. So go home I did.

The weirdest single thing about that day, and the next few weeks, was the eerie silence when outdoors. Anyone who has spent any time in the NYC metro area knows that at any given moment, you can see/hear at least two or three aircraft in the skies above, sometimes more like five or six. But on that day there was nothing, no planes, and dead silence.

So, that's my first day of jury duty. I'll never forget it.
 
Not an entry.

I'm due for jury duty in July. Not really excited. The standard procedure is:
I go in and wait. Then I get mustered into a courtroom.
I tell them I'm an aerospace engineer.
And either the prosecutor or the defendant's lawyer excuses me.

The prosecutor is afraid I can't reach a decision if there is a minor inconsistency in his proof of guilt. He thinks all aerospace is black and white. Trust me. It ain't. We all make judgement calls.

The defendant's lawyer usually wants to obfusticate. He's afraid I'll see through it. I likely will.

Haven't sat on a jury in years, though I get called for jury duty on a regular basis.
 
Thank you for the chance and generosity. I don't have a Queen, a Sodbuster or a D2 so it would be a triple win.

I'd hate being selected for jury duty... Iean having a person's life depend on you... and also having to agree with 11 strangers on it sounds like a nightmare....
 
Interesting theme for a giveaway! As long as you tell us your opinions on jury duty. I have to say I'd Want to be Considered. I've lived in the same place for almost 20 years, am continually registered to vote, and pay all my local taxes, but I've never been called for jury duty. I work with a girl who has been called 4 or 5 times in the past 10 years, though not yet been chosen. My mom sat through a long trial, as we were growing up, and it made an impression on me.

I sort of feel like I have been left out. I don't know what factors influence when/if one gets called. But, I'd like the chance to at least see what it's all about.

I do feel it is a duty of the citizens, sort of along the lines of giving blood. Not everyone can or should do it, but everyone should be willing.

No idea on that second knife, but it does look pretty nice. If I win, I'd be fine with either knife, but I'm more interested in seeing folks' opinions on jury duty. We may just have to be careful to not let this get political, in any way.;)
 
I'm in.

I've been called many times, but never had to serve. Going is the opposite of exciting.
 
I would be somewhat excited, if allowed to serve I know I would make sure that the verdict is based on integrity.
 
So, the second one's bolster is copper colored. the wood appears real, and I have no idea what is on the tang. I'll go check it again at home. I've been called before but never served. I run part of the IT Department for a large Resort company. It would be an interesting time and honestly I think I'd enjoy it. that being said, I manage a team of very smart individuals and meet with high level execs all the time. I feel the odds on me being chosen are against me.
 
I'm in for the Queen. I have been meaning to try out their D2 but haven't got around to it.
I have never been picked to serve on a jury but have had to go and sit for a day or two just to be told to go home. I am never excited about it but understand someone has to do it.
 
I was asked that very question by the prosecuting attorney on a murder trial a few years ago. Scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to say about a 7. I feel it's my civic duty, and fairly interesting,but there were other things I could have been doing with the time.

On the other hand, I can't imagine any job being more boring than being a judge.

I'm in, by the way, and thanks.

In case you were wondering, we found the guy guilty.
 
If I got summoned I would be kind of excited - something different and probably more relaxed than a normal work day, and getting paid all the while!

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I knew I recognised the second knife, it's by a smokey mountain knife works brand called old forge.
 
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