Originally Posted by Artkansas

Good grief! How often do those circumstances come up? If avoiding jury duty by riding a bike or taking transit or walking is a strategy, it's not a very effective one if you ask me. It's never happened in all my career on jury duty. But then again, maybe all the people who drove that day will remember what happened and take a better form of transport in the future.

I think that mostly the OP was relieved about his luck and wanted to share his story. Remember, he pedaled to jury duty with no knowledge of what would happen, prepared to his civic duty, and he did it to the full extent of the law.