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Mmmmm…discharge
Mr. Edwin Ng was fulfilling his civic obligations last week, acting as a member of a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York. During a jury break, however, Mr. Ng apparently decided that the process was not keeping things exciting enough for him so he went off into the jury’s assembly room to, uhm, entertain himself. When a court employee came in to restock the vending machine, she found Mr. Ng “fondling himself.” She ratted him out to the marshals, who took him into custody.
In addition to being charged with disorderly conduct and public lewdness, Ng was also charged with the destruction of government property, said property being the green carpet in the jury room. While the article is silent on the point, this third charge suggests that Ng “finished,” which makes this sentence from the Daily News article all the more amusing: “He was discharged from jury duty.”
