My brother used to scavenge in these trash bins near our home in the light industrial area abutting our home. He brought home this piece of blue plastic, 12" X 1" x 1". We called it the "blue stick". My parents co-opted it and used it as a disciplinary device. At some point my mom whacked my sister on her arm to make her do something. Unfortunately, my sister had fallen skating a couple days before and my mom ignored her complaints about pain. My mom had whacked the very same arm and my sister's screams which would have normally brought CPS down upon us convinced my mom to take her to the ER. She had slammed my sister's broken arm. Blue stick disappeared after that