By extension, this isn’t far off from the guy who ended up shot because he got pulled over for a parking ticket. The dude argued that the cop stopped him unnecessarily and wouldn’t give his license or registration. He was warned multiple times that he would get arrested over a stupid parking ticket. He ends up wrestling the cop to the ground in traffic when the cop is trying to remove him from the car and get shot by another cop. So, a $35 parking ticket ends up in getting shot.

You have to pay for parking and you cite this as a reason for not serving jury duty. This could escalate into a bench warrant and eventual arrest with that now on your record. Are you really thinking clearly? Besides, you’ve already said you can afford it if it was for something YOU found valuable, like pinball, etc. The fact that YOU don’t see a person’s right to a jury by their peers as valuable to you says volumes about you as a person. None of what it says is positive. And I’m saying this not trying to insult you, but the fact is that this is a petty, bad look. Remember.... freedom isn’t free (nor is it completely paid for by your taxes).

If you are going to post on a board where people are willing to pay $100 for bumper caps (your very own ST caps plus shipping) and bitch about the unfairness of having to pay for parking, then you have absolutely no sense of where you are. That $100 is more than many people make in a day.

Besides making you look incredibly cheap and petty, in general, it makes you look like you don't understand the underpinnings of social responsibility. And your whole argument is a straw man anyway. I mean is it fair that I have to pay for books for my kid's college? They are required for the class and I've already forked over $40K in tuition. There are innumerable examples like this.

Dude, you should have hit delete before you even started this thread. Don't get mad at us because we are commenting on just how petty this thread is.