I can't help with wrecking the heels, but do you remember that trick from when we were kids? Where you can bite down on your fingers, then hook them together and pull, and it hurts like hell?
That's probably why it's stuck around now that we don't have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
I think I'm the reason my high school installed security cameras.
So, we had mandatory parenting classes in lieu of sex ed, but the school didn't have the money for those rubber babies and just made us carry around hardboiled eggs for a week. I still don't understand that logic, but hey that's conservative america for you.
This went, predictably, very poorly. Lots of 'babies' got stolen, smashed, and/or thrown out of windows, and this one guy in particular kept being weirdly pervy about it. Being conservative america, the teachers did not care that he was harassing girls about their eggs.
This guy wanted a girl's egg so damn bad, I watched him put the combo into his locker, peeled my name sticker off the week old egg, and left it in his locker over the weekend.
The next week, there were cameras in the hallways.
Here's a similar case from last year, if you're asking for court precedents. ICE was arresting people using an administrative warrant and not an arrest warrant, and it was ruled unconstitutional.
You're not wrong about it being stuck in your head forever. I'm glad the animator saved it.