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From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Cats in court
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 14:43:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 14:43:55 1985
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  I saw this in the paper yesterday and I felt I should share it with y'all.
It was in the 7/1/85 issue of _The_Buffalo_News_, page A-1 (front page!):

          Cat Got Tongue of Feline 'Juror'
  BOSTON (UPI) -- Cat Mousam has been allowed to skip jury duty after
election officials discovered she couldn't speak English.
  The cat was put on the jury duty list after city census takers took
her name off its owner's door -- along with the names of two other
adults and another cat.
  "It's funny they didn't disqualify her because she's a cat," said
Mousam's owner, David Christian, 40, a psychiatric social worker.
"They disqualified her because she can't speak English."
  The state office of jury commissioners, which gets its list from the
annual city census, had fabricated entire identities for Mousam and
his "stepbrother" cat, Leo A. Longfellow, the Boston Herald reported.
Mousam, said to be born in 1956, and Longfellow, born in 1953, were
both listed as nurses.

-- 

                     Henry J. Neeman (ughenry@buffalo)

  "Yes, well, that's just the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance
I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage.  You sit there on your
loathsome, spotty behinds, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's
cuss for the struggling artist, you EXCREMENT!  You WHINING, HYPOCRITICAL
TOADIES with you COLOR T.V. SETS and your Tony Jacklin GOLF CLUBS and
your BLEEDING Masonic handshakes!"