I guess the big question here is this. Had the young girl had the misfortune to fall off the car while dutifully holding the box to it's roof, would they have successfully sued the maker of the car for not providing a better designed platform or the box fabricator for not making it safe to do so. I mean after all, it is possible to design a roof rack to hold such an item and for sure, even i could design a box which could provide a safe landing at highway speeds.

Perhaps the king of lying lawyers John Edwards has a chance at a new carreer. I can hear him now, "imagine, if you will, that you are the helpless 13 year old, trapped in the shabbily constructed cardboard box, about to fall from this faultily designed minivan, constucted by uncaring bean counters, with only profit in mind. How would you feel?"

Worked on cereble palsy birth defects. Made him millions.

roadster with a stick