Comment by sandworm101 20 hours ago
Exactly. I expected reference to all sorts of things that have been held at customs. I remember one old case titled something like "New York v. a shipment of dildos." I also remember some state law where guns were 'persons'. If cops wanted to destroy siezed guns they had to go to court, where the guns would be represented by a lawyer who would argue for sale over destruction. (Arizona iirc)
I believe that in most parts of the world you will regularly find shipments of dildos participating in trials.
Totally OT but I just saw your force diagram question.
The force diagrams I came up with have "invaginated arrows".
In the std diagram students get confused about what forces act on which objects so the invaginated arrows trip them up just enough to make them figure out the right orientation on their own ..
If you press me, I'd say these are nothing more than UX trials..
Hmm, is there a picture somewhere?
I support that statement! Where do you think UX designers learn about A/B trails in the first place?
See diagrams 2 & 3 here-- I used the water-style arrows for everything
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?...
But nearly every country will put an empty chair on trial (in absentia). Dead people can also sometimes be represented in tort cases. Historically, kings and traitors have even been dug up to appear in court after death, literally. And the US regularly puts pre-verbal children on trial (immigration courts). Compared to that, the crate of dildos seams downright normal.
That’s not a real old case, it’s an urban legend. You don’t remember the case, you remember reading some fiction.