C'mon people! If you simply must play crazy to skip jury duty, you really shouldn't go on the radio and brag about it afterwards. Hard to believe, but people still listen to the radio. Including judges. Just ask Denver Mary Kay saleswoman Susan Cole. She's now facing hard time for lying to get out of jury duty last fall.
Here's the story: Last October Cole, 57, called in and bragged to the KOA's Dave Logan Show that to get out of jury duty she put on a dress skirt over reindeer socks, a white and a black shoe, huge black eyebrows, bright red lipstick and an "Ask Me About My Bestseller" t-shirt. "When they asked me about mental issues, I got up and said, 'Yeah, I have some mental issues.' And the judge said, 'Does anybody care if she leaves?' And everybody all at once said in a great big loud voice, 'No!' It was hilarious," she said on the air. "My life is so busy, I didn’t have time to think about it. I made the darndest, blackest eyebrows."
Unfortunately for Cole, Judge Anne Mansfield was listening at the time and was able to trace the incident using court transcripts. Cole was arrested yesterday on felony charges of first-degree perjury and attempt to influence a public servant and now faces a maximum sentence of up to six years in prison on each charge.
She really shouldn't be that surprised though, acting crazy to get out of jury duty doesn't even work all the time on television! Just ask Liz Lemon:
When a NYC woman tried to play "racist" to avoid jury duty, a judge ordered her to indefinite jury duty.
