• @jqubed
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    426 months ago

    Were you dismissed from jury duty when they learned you were a crime dad?

        • CrimeDadOP
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          46 months ago

          There might actually be a case to be made that a jury should only consist of people who have gone through the system.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Was it because you complimented the Brutalist architecture? They probably put you on a list now.

    • CrimeDadOP
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      76 months ago

      I wasn’t sure if it counted, but I am a brutalism enjoyer as well.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      46 months ago

      I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs

    • @Evotech
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      16 months ago

      At least prisoners can’t jump the windows

      I’m 99% sure there’s security reasons for this design

  • @spittingimage
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    156 months ago

    Looks like you got summoned to the prison for jury duty.

    • CrimeDadOP
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      76 months ago

      When I was a kid I used to drive by the Pirelli building all the time and dreading that I might have to go to work in a big, beige building like that one day. I never liked buildings like that until somehow it just clicked for me in my late twenties. Now I think brutalism and similar styles are wonderful.

      Anyway, maybe I’m just a weirdo, but it was actually surprisingly pleasant in there: clean and calm with friendly, easy going staff. I kind of regret getting excused a little bit.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          It’s a beautiful building but it’s frightening to see in real life. A monolithic lair for some unseen unknowable horror.

          • CrimeDadOP
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            46 months ago

            Part of what I like about it is that it’s not pretending to be something else. It looks like a an extremely secure, resilient building, which is exactly what it is, but it still looks good.

        • @GoosLife
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          26 months ago

          I actually think thats a pretty building, while finding the other buildings mentioned in this thread boring to ugly. Just to put in my two cents. At least this one has a prettier color.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      A lot of US Courthouses are physically connected to the Jailhouse and PD, I assume it’s the same for other nations but idk.

  • SharkAttak
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    116 months ago

    Honestly I’d feel lucky just to have come out of there alive…

    • @dhork
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      136 months ago

      I think the same thing every time I go to Newark

      • CrimeDadOP
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        66 months ago

        Newark is treating me well so far. We’re on lunch break and I’m having a big open-faced Reuben at Hobby’s right now.

        • @dhork
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          46 months ago

          Justice is a dish that is best served with Thousand Island dressing

          • CrimeDadOP
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            16 months ago

            Unfortunately, I don’t get the reference.

            • SharkAttak
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              16 months ago

              Oh don’t worry, it was just a joke about Newark being sketchier than it looks.

  • @[email protected]
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    106 months ago

    Why does this building have arrowloops? Are they expecting a siege?

    Nvm, after 1/6/20 I suppose every legal institution should always expect violent insurrection.