Called for jury duty duty . . .19,000km from home

Tanya Stone has been told she has to do jury service in Tauranga - even though she lives in England.
The 36-year-old has received her third Tauranga District Court jury summons in 10 years but says she will not report to court on January 24 as the letter orders.
She has no qualms about fulfilling her civic duty - it's just that she lives in Watford and has done so since the late 1980s.
But this has not stopped the Justice Ministry sending her three summonses in that time.
The first two were addressed to Mrs Stone and sent to her parents' Tauranga address.
Both times her mother, Faye Wordsworth, called Tauranga District Court to explain why her daughter would not be reporting as asked.
The second time, Mrs Wordsworth supplied the court with her daughter's Watford address to prove she lived in England.
"I just told them that she doesn't live in New Zealand and that there wasn't much point her doing jury service," Mrs Wordsworth said.
The third letter summonsing her, dated December 9, 2004, was sent straight to Mrs Stone's flat in Watford.
Mrs Stone told her parents about the latest summons during a festive phone call, leaving her father, Alan Wordsworth, flabbergasted. "This is just beyond a joke," he told the Bay of Plenty Times.
The letter tells Mrs Stone that she has to report to the Tauranga District Court on Monday, January 24, at 9am, and every other morning for the rest of that week. It says that if she does not attend then she may be liable to a fine. It outlines how she can claim for any public transport or car mileage costs she uses to get to the court.
Mrs Wordsworth said her daughter would be more than happy to attend jury service if the ministry paid for her flights back to New Zealand.
A spokesman for the ministry said that under the Jury Act anyone who was registered to vote was qualified and liable to serve as a juror. There was no system in place to stop people living overseas from receiving a summons.
The ministry does not pay a person's airfare and expenses to fly home and serve on a jury.
The spokesman's advice was to fill out a "Section C" exemption form that came with the summons and post it to the court - exactly what Mrs Stone will do.
The Wordsworths have never been called for jury service, despite living in New Zealand for 35 years.