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They got a Jusco on Okinawa now?
Man, a lot changes in 20 years...
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Bank Wire Transfer should only be whatever the cost your bank charges for the service.
Most larger companies will have a routing and ABA number for electronic fund deposits.
Heck, I've had monies transferred to me that way, some Credit Unions in the USA don't charge for wire transfers to another CU in the same ATM network-guy pays my storage fees to my CU acct directly from the ATM by his apartment.
I thinks I needs ta remine him he be obeydue on dat rent, two!
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oooh, they have a 3.15 gear available?
/Peggy Hill Voice/ "I did not know that!"
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I have been pouring over this thread for a while now, and plan to tap bypasses into my spare P90 head. That was a lot of information! Oddly, I don't remember seeing anything about it in the "how to modify your datsun OHC engine" book. I wonder why...
There is a REAL simple answer for that, which you won't like to hear:
"You weren't looking for it."
ozconnection can testify, this past Sunday, I stood in his dining room with the VERY book you mention and revealed where I got the information, and at that moment it all became obvious. It's there, right in front of you. It was there in front of him as well and he didn't find it in the book till I showed him the way. Unfortunately many people are very one-dimensional when it comes to learning. They think you just absorb what someone tells you.
That, my friend, is a very big misconception!
Understand something else, Frank Honsowetz didn't do anything to speak of in that book. The guy compiled what the people on the Electramotive (and other racing teams) chose to tell him. At the time the book was written, this engine was still in competition, competition which would add to Electramotive's headaches on-track. Like any professional race team they told him in the most general terms what they did. And while they told him a lot, they didn't tell him everything.
But today, you can't carry a cel phone onto the production floor at Cosworth. Most places have you check any electronic gear up front before you go into the workshop. To paraphrase you "I wonder why..."
Some people laugh at guys who buy Playboy for 'The Articles' when we all know it for the photos. But here you only read the words... Go look again and make the Homer Noises when you find what was there, looking at you all the time, right in the face, that you glossed over countless times before never LOOKING, never SEEING. You read, but you did not SEE.
I hope that last bit was not to Zen for ya!
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No, it's the damnable Vodaphone mobile broadband connection here in the 'sticks' of Lake McQuarrie NSW...
Actually, the way IT has my computer configured with 'zspyfix' and 'spybot' on an autorun routine it bogs the processor and I never know when it will activate. I was so disgusted with 'site performance' because it was 'so slow' I figured it was time to donate so you guys could upgrade some stuff...
I only now saw the triple post. But too late for me to delete them from my side, the delete button ain't there no more!
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they dig that there, man!
gwaaok gwaaok GWAAAAAAOKK!
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Where can I get a shirt like that?
Something about a stone cold sober dude ranting about the "Great white Buffalo" that's just a little unsettling... I love it
Oh, I forgot to answer that, "TedNugent.com"... seriously, they sell the concert T's there. I ordered a pair of them so my son could wear it to school before he greaduates. The 'Shock and Awe' shirt he wore as a freshman was a conversation starter as well...
There is an old 1973 Photo of Ted in a Loincloth holding two pistols which has recently been made into a 'T-Shirt on E-Bay' involving one of his quotes that went something like "I want burgulars dead, I want rapists dead, no trial, no jury, they try to hur you, just SHOOT EM!"
That one 'went to school' as well....
Am I a 'bad parent'?
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Speaking of 'showing his piece', my dad just sent me this link from the Detroit Free Press.
I love their characterization of "People posting photos in expensive clothing and firearms" which made me think of this exact situation...
And then I used valuable low-band connection time on my mobile modem to connect to post it here, such is my dedication... LOL
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100316/BIZ04/3160389/1001/biz
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What else can be said...sometimes cops have a hard time reconciling my outward appearance, usualy because of the apparel I'm wearing. Perhaps the perps do a little of the same. But c'mon...
Some things should be obvious!
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Methinks you misunderstood the ticket.
The CVC clearly has a section regarding visible smoke, and...er....having been pulled over by the CHP in two separate incidences for 'excessive smoke' (which IS a citation worthy offense) I can say indeed the section exists. To Wit: CVC Section 27153. "No motor vehicle shall be operated in a manner resulting in the escape of excessive smoke, flame, gas, oil, or fuel residue. The provisions of this section apply to motor vehicles of the United States or its agencies, to the extent authorized by federal law." (Look on your ticket, dude, it tells you the CVC section you were cited for! You can even go online to check out what it says...exactly!) You can try and joke with the judge saying you were operating within 27156.3, I tried that on the second stop with the CHP, and he had to go to the cruiser and look it up. Came back LAUGHING and gave me an escort to the next offramp so I could pull over and call someone to come get me instead of giving me a ticket!
A "Gross Polluter" is a separate classification and can only be rendered after failing a SMOG test.
At any time a CHP or LE Officer in CA can pull you over because of smoke. They can also inspect you for operating smog equipment. If they suspect you are modified, they can cite you and send you to the referee.
The 'exempt' cars are ones without an engine or chassis newer than 1954. That was the year the state strted emissions controls devices. Before that, nothing. 27157, 27157.5, and 27158 gives the 1955 date reference. Yeah, I been through this all before. They tell you what the rules are guys! It's all written down. You just take the time to read and it 'gets you things' in some instances!!!
In 66 there were major changes like AIR injection, etc... And yes, those parts have to be on there if they stop you.
The exhaust system section of the CVC, read and be amazed:
http://law.justia.com/california/codes/veh/27150-27159.html
The SCARIEST PART is the VERY LAST SECTION: 27159.
"27159. Any uniformed member of the California Highway Patrol may order a vehicle stored when it is located within the territorial limits in which the member may act if requested by a representative of the State Air Resources Board to remove the vehicle from service pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 44011.6 of the Health and Safety Code. All towing and storage fees for a vehicle removed under this section shall be paid by the owner."
Anybody know that an ARB guy can make that arbitrary decision and tell that local Chippy standing by to 'impound that one, officer'...Then you can argue the merits of Subdivision Section 44011.6 (f) of the Health and Safety Code... (it applies to heavy duty trucks, take it easy...)
Like Frank Zappa says "Somebody comes to take your ride!"
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Oh, and that 'to and from' is a 'commuter exception'---they are trying to do something they can't do.
They have to define a 'reasonable commuting distance' to invoke that, and then 'to and from' the jobsite within those ranges, you don't get paid.
If you drive 6 hours to one jobsite, then go ANOTHER 2 hours away, to another, they are on the hook for travel back of 8 hours.
If you lived 2 horus from the office, then they wouldn't pay you for the first two hours and last two hours of the day as you would be doing that to and from the office anyway.
But you are home - based. They are twising and misapplying a section of the labor code meant for people employed at a FIXED location doing OCCASIONAL field work.
There is an instance of job-hopping assignments as an example on the labor board page describing what they are talking about, but I dont think it's applicable to you because of the distances. Really, you need to talk to the labor board!
Heres some opinon letters on stuff from the Cal Labor Board Site. If you spend time in hotels, my suggestion is you start reading the codes. They are VERY eye opening.
Travel Time (Page 6, Item #2---printing these out and leaving them where HR people are, with the applicable parts highlighted sometimes 'brings change' without ever having to say anything. It's best nobody see you drop them off. Mailing to the office from some faraway state helps add mystery...)
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/opinions/1994-02-16.pdf
More Travel Time Stuff:
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/opinions/2002-02-21.pdf
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/opinions/1989-12-07.pdf
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/opinions/2003-04-22.pdf
Generally interesting reading:
http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/opinions/1986-12-01.pdf
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Only out $2k a week? hope you got that on an Airlines Miles Card, or two, and rotate them so you get miles on there!
I'm at $28K right now. Yeah, I get BIG expense checks. Costs add up, I can tell you're local!
They are SO SCREWED.
What they WANT and what the LAW requires them to PAY are two different things. And what they are trying now is based on you being a 'salaried management' employee. You do the work hands-on, right? If so, you have to be paid hourly.
If the truck is at your house, and you have no office to report to, YOU ARE PORTAL TO PORTAL and have to be paid as such. There are some logical exemptions (You don't get paid to go from the hotel to dinner, for instance. You don't get paid if you sleep while driving your truck. You don't get paid, generally for time spent sleeping or eating...as long as it's in a designated area for those activities.) but generally you should be paid from the time you leave to the time you arrive. If they have not negotiated a 'travel rate' beforehand, then it's at your full hourly rate.
They CAN pay you a lower rate for travel, but that lower rate works towards overtime. If you work it right, you maximize overtime. If they play the federal game, you get paid 1.5X for driving home. I always was travelling home on overtime...
You are a 'remote employee' and the benefits are great... the company needs to get a call from the labor board to straighten them out. What usually works is sending HR a link to the applicable pages on the CA Labor Board Website that will detail the penalties for non-compliance.
Another ding they try is 'split shifting' where they call the evening the 'next day'---and that doesn't work either. Law says you start at X time on Monday, your time starts that time EVERY DAY FOR THE WEEK. Meaning if they ask you to leave early on Monday Morning (say 4AM) but the prior week you were leaving at 7AM the week previous, TECHNICALLY AND LEGALLY you are likely entitled for 1.5X time from 4AM to 7AM monday (as it techincally is the last three hours of sundays workday, and if you worked 40 hours the prior week, that is overtime!) That's a hair splitter, and only really applies if you were working on the weekend, then it comes into doubletime anyway.
They are playing typical games. Lots of times companies based in a state where Federal LAw is the only one taking precedence will do this in CA. They get a rude awakening. Lots of the HR people take general FEDERAL labor law courses, but CA is different! I went through 40 hours of CA specific labor relations and law course, lots of that changed, then changed back again...
These people aren't following the law. Call them on it.
And it doesn't have anything to do with the economy. Companies are ALWAYS doing this stuff. Esepcially smaller branches or places where some whiz-kid MBA has taken over from outside the state. They are betting if nobody compalins they get away with it.
This was the case with IR. Got a new MBA to run the division, and he came out flatly stating 'we aren't having 50 pay policies for 50 states'---when I worked at another company that actually CARED about it's employees, that's EXACTLY what they said they would do if that is what they had to do! They are also the company that sent me to the labor board courses for CA!
Long story short, Mr. MBA saved some money shaving my time going by Kentucky Labor Law, and while I didn't lodge with the CA Labor Board (I did, then took 6 months to get them off me for followup, they were like rabid dogs to sink their teeth into a big company!) I did follow internal protocols to get the money owed me. Even at that I was shorted as three months of heavy overtime records were 'lost' in the 'failsafe record keeping server' in Davidson...
If I'd gone after them for what I was owed according to CA standards, it would have DOUBLED my take.
I'd start keeping SCRUPULOUS manual records, do it all in writing. Make them aware they are in violation of state payment requirements. E-Mail is good for that. Find another job, and if they haven't done right by you by then, file the complaint the day you give your notice. Tell the Labor Board you left because of the pay issues and them acting like they didn't have to follow the law. That should get a good response.
Nice thing about doing it this way, they calculate what you're owed. You are not an employee. Therefore, you get a SETTLEMENT CHECK. (eventually)
And know what? That's not taxable!
The more records you have when you go in, the better.
I'll PM you with something else.
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I'm hosed, just got the notice to give another guy a briefing on OH&S induction for Sydney/Eraring. I guess I won't be heading back to Oz....
To yetterben, Okamura said he bid. We'll see how it goes on that FET manifold.
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You'd have to put in a considerable effort to get to 200whp.
As has been posted here, the ITS cars are close to that with an L24 and SU's, unported head, stock Nissan cam, stock cast pistons...
L24's in RACING trim (forged pistons, or hell, MONZSTER's Car...) can be closer to 300HP using forged pistons, worked head, cam, etc...
Not saying it doesn't take effort to get 300HP, but using alternate induction, porting, and a cam getting 200HP from an L24 is easier than trying to get it from the stock pieces (and it CAN be done!)
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There IS a 'vacuum diagram' in the FSM.
Shows where all these things go. There isn't a unified one, it's in each applicable section. Portions that deal with the A/C and heater controls will be in that section.
EGR will be in Emissions.
Most of the manifold stuff will be detailed in EF (Engine Fuel)...
Additionally, under the hood, if it wasn't painted over or destroyed in the fire, is the emissions hose routing diagram.
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Randy, take this from me, a fellow Californian who has had the EXACT same job description you now have...
The labor board will CRUCIFY THEM for not paying.
What you have to determine is where your normal zone of work is, or office. At most, they can say you have to 'give up' the normal commuting time to go to the office. After that, they pay. Period. Stuck in traffic, THEY PAY.
It's portal to portal. The big thing is 'are they charging for the time travelled to the customer'---if they are, you have to be paid for it or they are committing mail fraud when they mail out the invoices.
If you are 'home based' and dispatched from the house every morning to a job then your time starts and ends at point of dispatch.
I worked for three different major companies based back east, and every time they tried that crap, HR called up the consulting line to the Cal Labor Board, and RAPIDLY changed their tune.
Other things to note: Daily overtime. You work over 8 hours daily, you are paid 1.5X. Period. They have you working 4 10's witohut a written agreement: 2 hours overtime, retroactive for up to the last three years.
Work at least four hours every day of the week? 1.5X for all the hours on Saturday, 2X for all the hours on sunday (7th day worked). CA is one of the few states which actually has doubltime codified in statute.
If they don't want to pay, park their truck at the shop, drive into the shop and check it out every day and then drive to the jobsites. Make sure you're back at the shop at the end of the day. Do that for a couple of weeks and they will start to see their cheapassed ways don't help them, or their customers.
One thing you NEED to do is keep track of your time. Starting, stopping, and lunch/breaks. I ran a daily log with entries for starting out in the morning and when I returned home. If I ate in the truck on the way to a job---THAT IS NOT LUNCH IN CALIFORNIA! That is chargeable time.
For a while I simply turned in the time as I did it and told them "change the time cards yourself and let me know what you're paying me, and make sure I know who changed them---make sure they sign them and give me a copy for my records"
If they are so stupid to actually DO that... the labor board will crucify them! CRUCIFY THEM!
All it takes is one guy to say 'yeah, they're doing it to all the guys in field service' and they will (the labor board) send in auditors and aske everybody in a sneaky friendly way how they are treated, how long they work, do you get paid for all the time you're working, do you get paid for the drive time to and from jobs...
Then they nail the company. I;ve been on both sides of this equation, being management first. AFter that experience it boggles my mind why managers still argue about this stuff, it's black-letter law. There is no disputation.
Basically, if you are hands-on----your hourly.
I'm classified differently now since I actually DO manage/supervise people. It's just that the past year they have all been so incompetent or green that I've had no choice but to do the work hands-on myself while training them! But these people PAY me on time, and I know what I'm due.
Which is another thing, they have to give you a statement you can read and understand regarding your overtime, and your overtime must be paid in a 'timely' fashion.
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That's only a 205hp to the rear wheels L20A (1998CC's) with low compression. The L28 accelerates much faster.
instead of going the 1.3 miles in 53 seconds, it's more like 45. From a standing start, on dirt...
With the L28 and a four barrel manifold, running one time at Carlsbad we had no traction in first or second on street legal drag radials, and because of the 3.36 gearing you could count one...two...three before the cam came on in third and the car started accelerating to a 13.08 quarter mile...spinning the tires through the traps...
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That would have solved Frank's Issue with his tow vehicle...for sure!
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That guy was a smarmy bastard. Wearing teardrop sunglasses, older dude, too! Literally did a 'look both ways to see if anybody saw him' and got in the truck and drove off.
Scenario was this: Guy parks, gets out. Doesn't leave it in gear or set brake. Walks off, truck rolls back CRASH! Wastes the whole rear end of this Camry or something. Guy walks back to the truck, pulls back into the stall, LOOKS RIGHT AT ME, and reparks. Goes into Albertsons. Doesn't say anything. I look at my kid and said "This, is a test..."
So I pull my truck to another spot. Where I can see everything. Guy comes back, sees the damaged car. Goes up and looks closer: both tail lights out, his bumper went over theirs, so the trunk is trashed and both rear quarters are pushed in quite a bit. It's in excess of the $500 California reporting requirement for sure.
Guy looks left, looks right, adjusts his glasses, and boogies!
I wait around 20 minutes, but by now my kid is going to be late for his Scout stuff, so I leave a little note on the wrecked car much like many of my posts at ZC.C "I watched this happen, this is the license number, if you need my help in nailing this smarmy lowlife no good mu*&^(*& then here is my cel phone XXX XXX XXXX, it happened at this time, I waited till this time, and left."
I wasn't 10 minutes down the road and got the call, they called the cops and it took them 3 HOURS To arrive. Swore out the statement. About two weeks later a Detective calls me in for a photo lineup. They used CA driver's license photos. One of the guys looked like "The Skipper" from Gilligan's Island! But of the 6 guys he gave me photos of (none of which were wearing glasses) it took me about 5 seconds of looking at all the photos in turn, and pulled out the guy: "This is him"
Detective asks a couple of questions, how do I know. How can I be so positive with such a short look. Take another look, this is serious, make sure... So another couple of seconds per photo, same guy. Go over why.
Apparently my pick matched the registered owner of the vehicle who's plate I wrote down... Bummer!
Detective escorts me out of the building, and as I'm leaving he says "Thanks, Thanks a Lot. Not many people would do this for someone they don't know. Why did you do it?"
Looked him straight in the eye, and said "The guy looked like a little rat-bastard informer from the Mob. Greasy hair, and that look left, look right, nobody saw me I'm free and clear look. That last look is what did it. It pissed me off! I wanted to NAIL that guy for THINKING he got away with it."
Cop kinda chuckled. Then said "You will probably get a call from the D.A. you picked the registered owner of the truck, and he denied everything. He has no clue we have a witness. If he doesn't come clean, the D.A. will take a phone deposition from you, you will probably never need to come to court."
Eeeh! Wrong! Guy lawyered up. I had to go to court. After it was delayed and moved, and delayed, and postponed. I mean, I KNOW what the guy's lawyer was doing. He just didn't realize that I got paid whether I was working or not, and the company I worked for not only paid for my gas and the truck I took to the courthouse....They told me not to miss any court dates so I didn't get in REAL trouble and get constrained to where I couldn't make my own schedule.
I guess the damage was over $4000 so it was pretty serious. Normally the owners would be SOL and could only use me for testimony in Small Claims if they didn't file that police report. Something about the 'completeness' of what they got told got that Detective to push it through and nail that guy. I don't think he liked the guy, either.
So when you think nobody's watching....they're watching!
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Why do people say 'don't go inland'?
Because if you are from California, you understand "Inland" means Modesto, Sacramento, Tulare, Madera, Riverside, uh... did I leave anything out Inland California Guys?
The only thing you get by going 'Inland' is I5-The Californiabahn. Great for making it from Sacto to LA in 4 hours, but I'd prefer the coast road myself.
Yosemite? Tahoe? That's MOUNTIANS guys, US395, not 'Inland'...
Inland is where all the smog blows during the sea-breeze. Then it sits there because of the mountians.
Except in Riverside...eventually it makes it's way to Phoenix...
Inland is a great jumping OFF place... Modesto and Madera get you into great places in the mountians...but they are literally on the places listed on the 'misery index' of places to live (no offense, guys, but they ARE!). I mean, the wonderful smell of airdropped crop pesticides in the morning (or the acrid smell of burning grapevine stubble)... it's the smell....of Madera!
If you like flat, hot, and agricultural, then go Inland. If you want scenery, follow the mountians or the coast. At least south of Sacramento to the southern border!
Inland Calfornia: There's a REASON everybody goes 80+ on I5!
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"Is there something applied to the rear wheels? "
Torque, in copious heapings...
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Just remember, there was a 4V Datsun/Nissan Manifold.
YEAH, it's a FOUR barrel, here's the comparison:
There were dual two barrel inline Mercedes Manifolds.
Guys argue about Corvair carburetor placement, too!
<EDIT> That bastard yetterben just sent me a link last night to YahooJapan Auctions for an HA30 Cedric four-barrel intake setup complete with original Nissan Supplied Four Barrel on it! Only about $1200.....any takers?
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"Buildout Cars" are always a taboo area of discussion. They do things the 'absolutists' simply can't understand...like put round top carbs on a car with 1973-Specification bumpers (talking USA here...)
In Response to Carl...my understanding was the 73 cars had the leaner mixtures which also clean up the CO/HC by 'running hotter' but can be compensated for in the upper rpm ranges by more EGR and Needle Taper.
Flowbench testing of the P79/N47 head can be found in one of Bryan Blake's Posts, he flowbenched them. (1 Fast Z)
Running two heads 'concurrently' may be as simple as a running production change---cars up to midyear ran one, cars after midyear ran another. As they all occur in the same production year cycle for most of the world, you end up with a 1983 with one head in 5/83, and another in 7/83. Such was the situation on S30 doors for the US market in 1976!
I would guess heads are no different. Parts is parts.
On a side note, things at Eraring Power Generation Station in Dora Creek are degenerating quickly, and ALAS, I may have to make another visit down under..."oh bother," said pooh bear, "those ozzies are biting my arsecrack again!"
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PM me anything you got on the car. I have to be in DFW in two weeks.
There is a gawd, and he puts me in contact with people with FairladyZ's....
I have been summoned...
in Non Tech Board
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I suspect my wife conceals my summons so a bench warrant is issued, under they guise that it will keep in the country for a while. Last duty was January 2009, I'm due...
I take the initial questions as a cat-and-mouse game. I no longer say 'Engineer', I say 'compressor mechanic'. When they say what kind of compressors, I say 'air compressors, like, you know, that you put air in your tires with and stuff'...
I've been getting better at it, I've gotten empaneled the last couple of times. Time before last I was wearing the 'I want all burgulars dead, no trial, no parole, they try to hurt you---you shoot em dead!' Ted Nugent T-Shirt. Defense Attorney had me read the front of my shirt in to the Record! Then we go on break. Everybody in the panel (for the two alternates on the jury) laughed as we left the room saying "Oh you're out!"
Came back from lunch, they seated the blonde girl who couldn't make up her mind if she was comfortable putting down a judgement on someone else. And then the people thanked Juror #248, Mr. Dighera who will be alternate #3.
I mean, I was dumped every time I showed any intelligence, but this time I was pretty P.O. about getting called in as I had other things to do and was for sure this process was a total waste of time as I always got booted (and had been that way for close to 20 years at that point!)
So I get on the jury, and a couple days in someone gets sick or something and drops out---has to be replaced. A day or so later someone has someone in their family die. They consider replacing him with blondie, juror alternate #2.
I made the comment if she gets seated, and someone else has an infarction or something in the jury box, we're going to be in for the sex-crazed bozo show. Fellow jurors all looked at me and I said 'Right now the Defense Attorney is sweating bullets because he put me on this panel with the 'what the hell, what's the chances' attitude. But right now mr "Shoot the Burgular" is perched to get on this panel. If anybody so much as sneezes, that guy will go through hell to get a mistrial. I expect after a break he'll come back in with a Bozo the Clown suit and shoes, red hair and clown makeup, jump up on the defense table and start wanking at the judge to get a mistrial called...
Thank goodness he didn't need to do that. I was ready to fry his client, but didn't get to cast a vote. Though the rest of the jury took five days in deliberations before they came up to that decision anyway...