Comments by "Cris T" (@62Cristoforo) on "Court Rounds Up People At the Mall And Makes Them Jurors" video.

This is where the term ‘roped in’ originated. I’m ancient times when there wasn’t enough of a quorum to run the senate they would send two runners out into the marketplace with a rope soaked in red paint and round up a random crowd and pull them into the senate. If this happened to you you were said to be roped in.
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