Just When You Thought You'd Been Wrong About The Courts Having Gone NUTS...

I looked at the spoof article, and it looks different enough it appears to be unrelated - though this wouldn't be the first time an internet joke has been reported as a real news story. I'd be worried the owner would get in trouble for bringing a cat into the courthouse. He said they were going to take the cat - most courthouses have guards carefully checking what you bring in. But then that would lead to the possibly equally amusing cat getting an arrest warrant.

if he put it in there under pets nothing they can do about it I had read this before I thought funny then and now.

Hiya maggiepie, Beautiful Cat a case of mistaken identity? Imagine if the Cat really did have to go to Court and be on the Jury. He would be distracting everyone for sure with such poise and confidence and such charm. This has made me smile today maggie. I don´t know if the couple will end up with Charges anyone can make a mistake but I suppose its trying to convince the Courts of that. I don´t think that they even thought about it on those terms when and how he was put on the Census. Also I did´nt know that you had to put Animals (Pets) on a Census. Is it like that over there do you have to really put your Pets on there or what. I ask that because some of the silly things that Official Places dream up so it could well be true. I was just under two weeks away of giving birth to my first son and they said I had to go and be on a Jury which was quite a few miles away from where I was staying. They said well go on the Bus then. I was really upset and the Doctor had to write a really long report to try and get me off this Duty thing. I would have gone any other time but not right then on the point of giving Birth. So in the end because they were still being stubborn about it I ended up in Hospital luck had it because he had turned around the other way probably because he did not fancy going to be on the Jury either. That was the only way I got out of that Jury Service they were hell bent on me having to go there. Love the Story about the Cat though amazing. Take care now. xxx

This is a good example of the dedication that civil servants show in their work. How can a cat be registered as a resident of a household? Could this mean that there are not as many people in America as we're made to believe and that perhaps some of them that are considered citizens of the US are in fact non-human? This is totally ridiculous and it's a funny story too. Imagine a cat on a jury. Ha ha!

Why am I not surprised? LOL Leave it to Massachusetts to come up with something like this...bleeding liberal state! Thanks for the chuckle, Maggs! Hugs, girlfriend!

That was hysterical. My favourite part is when the vet specified that Sal is "a domestic short-haired neutered feline." And since the owners actually listed the cat under pets on the Census, it's the Census Bureau who should be blamed. Though with this, Americans can say "We take our duty so seriously, even our cats serve on juries." Hehe, I should register all of my farm cats.

I've never had a pet summoned, but my soon-to-be-ex is not a US citizen, and he still gets summons every year. These government agencies don't talk to one another, do they?