Miller's rant

Jury Duty

Today is my son Leo's second birthday. An interesting coincidence occurred today that has inspired me to revisit the blog. Earlier my good bro TC Boone's, sent an email inquiring about tree service. His neighbors trees are leaning over his house and he is interested in getting them removed. Surprisingly, even in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, tree doctors are hard to come by. I had already suggested that he get in touch with JP, but I think TC would prefer a more "legit" outfit. After work I met with another good friend, named Tom, who I have been collaborating with on some grant writing. He was a bit stressed because he had missed jury duty. In the discussion he recalled how the last time he had jury duty it had involved a guy who was being sued for chopping down his neighbors cherry tree. The guy had been sued for 25,000 and the case had gone to jury trial. Of course, the judge was flabbergasted that someone would file a suit for a tree claiming that kind of money. As crazy as it would seem, the owner was within their legal rights to file the suit. In the end though, the jury ruled against the plaintiff and the "tree chopper" had gotten out of it. Turns out that the "tree chopper"'s name was Leo. But what was more of a coincedence, is that Leo use to run a Chinese restaurant in the building owned by a mutual friend of TC and I.

A small world..