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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/06/2017, 6:06pm PDT |
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Why don't you just call a cab or have a family member or friend provide you with transportation for jury duty? wrote:
1. You forget I'm in a power wheelchair. The chair, empty, weighs 275 pounds and requires a vehicle with a wheelchair lift or roughly 4 cubic feet of storage space. Presume you have, say, an SUV, small truck, or minivan to put my chair in. Okay, how do you get me into the seats, which are typically a foot higher off the ground than the chair?
2. I have no family members in the area. The only one is my sister who lives in the next state, and she is already out at that hour working at her business. She also has no car capable of carrying my wheelchair.
3. How does an ordinary-sized woman such as my sister or even a typical man bench-press or otherwise lift a 250 pound chair anywhere from a foot-and-a-half to three feet off the ground to load it into the truck, SUV or minivan that would be required to carry it? The last time paramedics had to move my chair, empty, into a fire department pickup truck (because the chair's battery had failed) it took at least two of them. You think firefighter-paramedics are weak?
4. The distance from where I live to the courthouse in Upper Marlboro is at least twenty miles. You care to tell me what a cab costs to travel 20 miles one way? There is already free bus service available to me, it just gets there 15 minutes too late.
5. Most cabs can't take wheelchairs, you have to advance order one. Besides, if you looked at the jury summons it specifically mentions that bus service is available and I should be able to rely on their representation of this.
6. I have Metro Access (shared ride paratransit for the disabled) and it would take me door-to-door. Again, it costs money - would probably be at least $7 - and since they already are paying too little I'm not spending one dime I don't have to.
7. A person who could walk would not be able to use Paratransit. The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) requires that a facility (the Courthouse or the Jury Office|) provide a reasonable accommodation be made to the disabled, and does not permit the facility to require the disabled person to endure a burden not imposed on non-disabled persons, nor can the facility require the disabled person do something to compensate for them not having an accommodation unless the facility can prove that providing a requested accommodation is unreasonable. This has been the law in the United States for over twenty-five years, it's not something sprung on them suddenly, like my summons for Jury Duty.
I'm standing on what the law grants me and I expect them to do the same that they expect others to do, and that's follow the law. Also the ADA says I do not have to invoke it if I choose not to.
And I want to say thank you for asking, it was a good question.
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Jury Duty part 2: The Jury Commissioner's office is stupider than I am! by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/04/2017, 3:06pm PDT
Here is my response by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/04/2017, 9:52pm PDT
But they don't have a form letter for arriving late NT by Roop 08/05/2017, 3:22am PDT
Roop, you're exactly right, a form letter giving me 20 minutes would have worked NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/05/2017, 4:55am PDT
Citizen, there's a form letter saying you will arrive by the designated time NT by Roop 08/05/2017, 6:26am PDT
The postponement was probably to grant you time to arrange suitable NT by transportation aka "A you problem". 08/05/2017, 7:06am PDT
No, it is not my problem by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/06/2017, 7:55am PDT
Why don't you just call a cab or have a family member or friend provide you NT by with transportation for jury duty? 08/06/2017, 4:41pm PDT
Here's the reasons I'm not using someone to get me to the courthouse by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/06/2017, 6:06pm PDT
Sorry, in both examples I should have said 275 pounds NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/06/2017, 6:07pm PDT
No reason to apologize, and what is your weight so I understand the NT by situation better? 08/07/2017, 5:54am PDT
I can't weigh myself because I'm over 300 & can't stand, but I'm under 400 NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/07/2017, 6:56am PDT
Couldn't you just ride up to a weigh station? Also, why not ride up to the court by ? You're basically a cyborg with 08/07/2017, 5:51pm PDT
Living the FUTURIST DREAM NT by The Locust's Sinclair C5 08/08/2017, 6:03am PDT
I thought about suggesting that too. AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT NT by Eurotrash 08/09/2017, 1:46pm PDT
Here's a better question: Why is it I should have to make all the sacrifices? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/07/2017, 7:12am PDT
Because they can throw you in jail at gunpoint while the most you can do usually NT by is eat a dick. 08/07/2017, 8:57am PDT
Sure but what incentive have you given? by Mysterio, "Bureau of Reprobates" 08/07/2017, 2:54pm PDT
No, I didn't even mention Metro Access and its fee for a different reason by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/08/2017, 3:54am PDT
Another reasons? That was the only reason. This whole thing is all about you and NT by your daily McDonalds ritual. 08/08/2017, 7:39am PDT
I do not visit McDonalds 'daily' it's more like maybe once or twice a month NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/08/2017, 6:21pm PDT
Yeah, either way I'm sure if the commissioner was handing out mcgriddles at 730 NT by you'd find a way to make it on time 08/08/2017, 6:31pm PDT
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagels!? PLOT THICKENS by Mysterio, "Cretinous Petty Officer" 08/08/2017, 9:50pm PDT
No, there is no ulterior motive here by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/10/2017, 9:25am PDT
Pancakes!? by HOW DARE YOU 08/10/2017, 11:08am PDT
You weigh 2x as much as a normie. Therefore you should make 2x the sacrifice. NT by SCIENCE 08/07/2017, 5:39pm PDT
No,I weigh 2x as much, have twice the problems, I should have 1/2 the sacrifices NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/08/2017, 3:49am PDT
You caused own problems NT by just lose some weight 08/09/2017, 12:52pm PDT
Hey Fatass Asshole: you don't work. You are paid SSI by the Government. Fuck, by You don't even walk. 08/09/2017, 12:14pm PDT
What does that have to do with the issue here? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/10/2017, 9:43am PDT
Also, Paul is just a fatass, he is by no means an asshole. NT by Diseased brain is also acceptable. 08/11/2017, 6:40am PDT
Think about this for a moment:What if jury duty paid $200 or $300 a day? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/07/2017, 7:25am PDT
There are plenty of people in the US who don't have citizenship, why not let NT by them earn it serving on a jury? 08/07/2017, 12:18pm PDT
Now that's an interesting idea by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/08/2017, 3:46am PDT
How could you have "a jury of peers" be composed of non-citizens? NT by Deloreans and Tetris bitches! 08/09/2017, 9:36am PDT
A jury could conist of citizens and non-citizens if it was set up that way by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/10/2017, 10:09am PDT
Yeah, but it's not set up that way because that would be retarded. NT by Mayor McCheese 08/10/2017, 6:12pm PDT
Reaching out between the bars of your cage, trying to shove Paul back into his. NT by Expand Yr Mind & Yr Ass Will Etc. 08/10/2017, 6:28pm PDT
Why not just let jurors "phone it in" after getting a synopsis emailed to them? NT by Moksha anyone? 08/11/2017, 5:20pm PDT
Idiot, they don't need to pay that because they can just NT by lock you up 08/09/2017, 12:09pm PDT
That is exactly the point by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/10/2017, 9:58am PDT
You can get excused for physical ailments so just tell them NT by You're to FAT to serve 08/10/2017, 11:41am PDT
2fast2serve NT by vrooooOOOOM! 08/11/2017, 7:17am PDT
2fat2serve! NT by fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! 08/11/2017, 10:34am PDT
Mr. Robinson Goes to Washington. "and that NO courthouses open before 10:30am, NT by our mcmuffins are a civil right." 08/11/2017, 4:59pm PDT
On size and other excuses, and "common law" employees by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/19/2017, 3:26am PDT
You're not being "employed" by the court, you fat cunt. NT by Go eat a dick. 08/19/2017, 11:25am PDT
Insults? That's all you have? Lame, Lame, Lame NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/19/2017, 2:06pm PDT
What legal arguments do you have? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/19/2017, 2:18pm PDT
HOLY SHIT the solution has been staring us in the face this whole time by Eurotrash 08/11/2017, 5:29pm PDT
Just write another letter by Mysterio 08/12/2017, 5:38am PDT
Followed by a Correction Letter including musical reference NT by Mysterio, "C&R&T Legal" 08/12/2017, 8:59pm PDT
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