AustLit

'This one time I told my producer friend about an idea for a reality TV show. It would be called "Car-Compactor" and one lucky audience member would get to choose whether or not to press a button, and that button would cause a person and their car to get crushed by a compactor. But here's the thing: they would have to make their decision based purely on the car's custom number plate. And after the crushing, the show would talk to all the crushed person's friends and family, and see if they thought their colleague deserved to be crushed. If the general consensus was that they did deserve such a fate, then the button presser would win...' (Publication abstract)