Remember, This State Kept Re-Electing Ted Kennedy

I once received a summons for jury duty while living in Massachusetts. I remember seeing a lot of people in the courthouse that day, but no animals...

A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty.

“I said, Sal, what’s this? You know, I don’t believe it I was shocked,” said Guy Esposito, Sal’s owner.

Sal’s owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: Sal really is a member of the family, so on the last Census form, Anna Esposito listed him under “pets”.

“I just wrote ‘Sal Esposito’, scratched out the ‘dog,’ and wrote, ‘cat,’” said Anna.

Anna filed for Sal’s disqualification of service. However, the jury commissioner was unmoved and denied the request.

Well, it is Massachusetts. I wonder if all the registered voters in Boston who are dead are excused from jury duty.