To think anyone doing the eating a washing machine capsule challenge should pay

[Ieatcake]

For their own medical treatment. Children have died from eating them yet so many online are eating them for fun

Is this why one of the detergent brands have got a TV ad out now specifically flaunting their child safe packaging?

This is one of the most stupid things I’ve ever heard. They can corrode your insides and cause huge damage. Just, why?

They do kinda look like sweets, espically the tide ones.

They paid gronk to try to do a viral video to say not eat then

As said, natural selection. There's a lot to be said for it.

No, I don't think so. Where do you draw the line? The person who wore stilettos that they knew they were wobbly in and broke their ankle? The person who knew they weren't warm enough and caught hypothermia?

These kids know they shouldn't be eating washing machine detergent, for sure! But they don't know what it will actually do to them if they're the unlucky one that it goes really wrong for. Any more that the uni kids who chase their drinks down with some paracetamol to get more drunk, don't realise that most will be ok, but some will knacker their liver and end up on a transplant list.

What about the girl who had a celebratory drink prepared with liquid nitrogen (dry ice) for her 18th birthday? The pub did nothing wrong in preparing it, she chose it, she drank it, and she lost most of her stomach as a result. Should she have to pay because she chose to do it?

Oh my goodness x2boys...chicken scratches!! I remember those. This would have been in the late 70s??

Aworldofmyown

This week I have heard kids at my daughters school crush up sweets to sniff them, they also smoke the crushed up sweets! WTAF - how do they think these things up.

I hold my hand up here and admit to rolling a piece of rope inside a banana skin and trying to smoke it with my friends. I probably shouldn't admit to that, although I'm not sure it was even the most stupid thing we did...

Oh how fucking stupid.

Heard it all now.

Hard to understand why anyone would do this.

You can't blame the person who did it first for everything. Yes they are a dick. But it's the rest of the idiots choice to do the same thing. The first person hardly forced them into it.
And yes I agree. Wasting the nhs's time with your bloody stupidity then pay for it

Anyone investing on purpose for fun and filming it is stupid enough that I can’t really be too upset if they fuck themselves up.

I’m sorry but that made me snort

Ieatcake I agree. they are doing it as a silly prank and know what they are doing.

I feel completely different about smoking and obesity etc because those are often addictions and there can be complex things going on emotionally. and often people can be become broke through smoking and food addictions so may not be able to pay for their treatment. but kids who do stupid stunts like this? yes.

MadMaryBoddington I find it hard to feel any sympathy for them but they are somebodys sons or brothers etc. So they should get medical care but not free. Oh and they should pay a charge for any ambulance called to them.

I was laughing at investing

No. I would bet the people doing this are teenager, teenager are well known for being stupid risk takers. It's one step up from a toddler running across a road.

KenDodd to be fair, i think all of us did daft things as teenagers. and i suppose it woudl be the parents picking up the bill which kind of would not be fair on them?

No. But maybe it's time to tax dumbassery.

I feel sorry if a toddler ate one.
But a teenager? Stupid fucker and should pay for NHS treatment for their "kicks"

I feel sorry if a toddler ate one.
But a teenager? Stupid fucker and should pay for NHS treatment for their "kicks"

What's the cut off age? If a 12 year old ate one, should they pay? or a 10 year old?

The people eating them are clearly aware they shouldn't.

I heard that toddlers etc were at risk of eating them, because they look far more appetising than other household poisons.... but teenagers and adults???

Putting out a message like "don't eat dishwasher tabs" will probably only give stupid people ideas anyway.

It’s not even the only stupid challenge that teenagers at the moment, at DD’s school it’s the salt and ice challenge. In fairness though in my teenage years it was glue and aerosols which also had serious consequences. People being idiots is nothing new.

I just.... what?
I can't even.....

How is that even a thing? Are people actually insane?

My kids (12 and 14) are in absolute disbelief that anyone would be stupid enough to do this. They have heard that it is a "thing" but have no interest in trying it themselves.

Just why???