i heard a story about a guy who got called for jury duty and got out of it in a brilliant way. they asked him what he does for a living and he said “i teach talmud in a high school.” very nice. they start discussing the case and there was one witness to a car accident who happened to be the girlfriend of one of the drivers.
…of course he cuts off the lawyer and starts talking about how according to jewish law there needs to be TWO MALE witnesses who aren’t related to each other or to any of the people involved and noge’a badovor on and on… every time a lawyer said something about “law” he managed to bring in the talmud… took them about 30 seconds to write him off.
a few minutes later he looked over to the other group and saw a guy that he happened to know so he went over to talk to him. then he was dismissed and went to go wait on line (they have to file it or something? not sure how it works)
not more than five minutes later he saw the second guy coming out laughing hysterically.
what happened? the lawyers saw the two of them talking and when they questioned the second one they asked how they knew each other.
then they asked “do you believe in everything he believes in?”
“absolutely!”
“get out!”