“There is No Such Thing as a Fool-Proof System”: These Inventions Were the Result of People’s Stupidity

A warning not to eat Tide pods? Are you kidding me? I might be crazy, but I always thought that laundry detergent was meant for, you know, doing laundry. Not as a delicious snack. But apparently, some people needed a reminder not to chow down on brightly colored packets of chemicals.

 I mean, I get it; they do look kind of like candy. But come on, people, have we really reached the point where we need to put warning labels on everything? What’s next, a cautionary note not to stick forks in electrical sockets? Wait, don’t answer that; I probably don’t want to know.