I think my kid would take that as a challenge to pry it off the table, making more of a mess than he otherwise would.

I was on a deadlocked jury in Baltimore a few years ago, for a minor drug possession case. There were two jurors that would not budge. One refused to find not guilty because she said a black man that looked a lot like the defendant tried to intimidate her on the way to the courthouse, and this was her method of…