Is this litter? If you found this in the water would you call it trash? Wisconsin’s 4th District Court of Appeals has an opinion.
Floating Balls Ruled Garbage: On Wednesday, the state 4th District Court of Appeals, agreeing with a Sauk County judge, ruled that the 87 hollow ceramic balls Couch released into the Wisconsin River last year fit the legal definition of garbage.Terry Couch claims he was only doing an Art Project but he forgot the number one strategy for staying out of trouble. Get GRANT MONEY up front and HAVE PRESS COVERAGE before doing something really goofy. There is no substitute for wealthy patrons when it comes to defining the difference between art and garbage. This decision should never be left to the courts.
If you find stuff like this or this or this or this floating in the water, please salvage it and drop me a comment. I can be discrete so there is no need to get the DNR involved.
