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Take solace that no matter how bad your relationships have ended. You didn't have to sort out beanie babies in front of a judge, bailiff, YOUR LAWYER and hers, and like a dozen people in an audience, on the clamels that one day ONE of these might be valuable.
Nowadays they would be dividing random numbers allegedly tied to a badly drawn monkey.
Too bad we as a species didn't learn our lesson, but people today fall for blockchain scams.
ty beanies are infinitely less of a scam than crypto too. even if your beanie baby was worth nothing, at least you still had a physical stuffed animal that you can wipe your tears with. wtf are people doing with their Google drive hosted jpeg?
That's NFT. Not quite the same thing. Built on crypto tech, sure, but just a subset of the tech and how it ended up used was very much a scam.
You also don't own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.
There's always some "collector" items than people have to have. Just look at some of the Funko Pop collections people have on Reddit.
I'm waiting for one with Funko Pops... but a lot deal in the 3 digits already and some 4 digits too. Try to find the whole collection of Futurama or Firefly in mint boxes!
Is this actually legit?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/couple-divorce-beanie-babies/
Snopes says yeah it's legit no caveats.
"This isn't about toys. It's about control," Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle told the couple. "Because you folks can't solve it, it takes the services of a District Court judge, a bailiff and a court reporter." There was snickering among the five or six people in the gallery.
Jesus even atthe time the judge thought it was rediculous.
Imagine being the judge.
Spend 4 years and a few hundred grand getting law degree.
Spend 10 years practicing law, late nights, burning midnight oil.
Spend more years and money garnering support to be appointed/elected as judge.
Be appointed as judge.
Preside over 2 petulant children who can't even divide stuffed toys amicably.
They couldn't bring in a folding table for them?
No the judge was exasperated from the proceedings that two adults couldn't settle splitting fucking toys. Wanted to make an example for future cases when splitting property.
Doubt it would be able carry this sick collection