… try being a combination police officer/engineer whose job is to reconstruct the physics of blood-splattered car wrecks, to figure out liability. Legal Affairs magazine has a rather spellbinding profile of these guys:

Other incidents are trickier to decipher. In a case this spring, a reconstructionist testified that a woman was driving when she and a Hartford businessman careered out of control on Connecticut’s Route 9. The attorney for the woman, on trial for manslaughter, claimed that it was the man who was driving. The lawyer suggested that the woman’s injuries, including a ruptured left breast implant, were consistent not with driving but with performing oral sex on the late businessman when he lost control of the car.

(Thanks to Arts and Letters Daily for this one!)