--- /dev/null
+package DBICTest::AntiPattern::NullObject;
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use overload
+ 'bool' => sub { 0 },
+ '""' => sub { '' },
+ '0+' => sub { 0 },
+ fallback => 1
+;
+
+our $null = bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
+sub AUTOLOAD { $null }
+
+1;