Kids confuse Tide Pods with candy; Uncle Chuck misses again

Verbatim from the local news:

Poison control centers are issuing a warning about a certain kind of laundry detergent which children are confusing with candy.

There have been 57 cases reported in Texas. Children who eat the detergent typically require hospitalization with symptoms ranging from vomiting to trouble breathing.

Tide is among the companies marketing the detergent. Tide's owner, Procter and Gambel, acknowledges that parents should be careful. A spokesperson says it's up to parents to keep their children away from the detergent.

A warning seal is taped to the lid.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers urges parents to keep the detergent locked in a cabinet or on a high shelf away from children.
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Yup, kids are getting more and more stupid with each passing day.

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Wow....human beings really have degenerated. How do these kyds not smell the pods, and know they're not effing candy? Usually laundry detergent has a perfumy odor that doesn't smell very edible. When these snoflakes put the pods in their gaping maws, wouldn't they spit it out right away? I mean detergent can't taste very good.

Also, I've seen pics of these Tide Pods, and they don't really even look like candy. These snowflakes see the detergent pods in a Tide box sitting in the laundry room, and assume it's candy? Kyds really are stupid.

Here is a pic of a Tide Pod. I would have NEVER assumed something like this would have been candy.

I have been using those 'pod' things for my dishwasher for years. My dogs are even smart enough to know they are not edible. I kind of suspected this kind of report would come over the wires eventually.

That stands to reason; kids are way dumber than any dog I have ever met.

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How bizarre - I just posted on here a few days ago that I often get the urge to eat these / think they look like candy.

Yeah, I wouldn't though.

It's soap. Do not eat.

If you feel the urge to eat something like this - you should probably go get yourself a pack of Starbursts instead.

I thought the Holy Sainted Parents knew how to childproof their house?

You keep stuff like this out of a young child's reach. Common sense.

Maybe if the moos would teach the kids how to DO laundry, instead of wheeling them around in strollers till they're in second grade, pre-chewing their food for them, letting them soil their pants practically till high school, going 'grizzly mama' on anyone who dares glance at their feral spawn in public and otherwise raising a generation of incompetent, entitled spawn, the ignorant little brats wouldn't confuse a cleaning product with food.

I was helping "fold" laundry before I could read, and otherwise being taught to be productive and self-sufficient.

I agree with mumofsixbirds; the species is devolving before our very eyes.

Mom always kept the cleaning supplies (read detergent, bleach, starch, naphtha soap, etc. etc.) in a cupboard where us wee sprogs couldn't reach it.

Don't parents just automatically do this to effing "babyproof" the damn house?

And like other posters, I really have to wonder why kids wouldn't spit out the gel pac thingies once they got a smell or taste of the soap. How stoooopid can they be???

Fifty-seven fucking cases in one state? Jeebus! With all the ridiculous amounts of chyld-proofing options available, there is no excuse for this. Hello, it's harsh soap. You lock it up you morons.

When people say "How stupid can you be?", I don't think it's a challenge!
I think that these pods look like sweets, but I would have sniffed them and tasted them first. Do these morons just gobble sweets down, like they're pills?

Melanie, you have a point. Don't these kids ever follow their parents around and watch what they're doing?

My mother never got down and played with me and my toys, but we played many games together. I fondly remember games like "Put the pile of clothes into a washing machine", "Pull the washed laundry out of the washing machine into the tub below", "Pass the pegs to mummy while she's hanging clothes", "Fold the laundry after mummy irons it", "Dry the dishes", and many others.

All the games included a rule. It was called "Stay away from the ironing board and never touch cleaning supplies".

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Wow....human beings really have degenerated. How do these kyds not smell the pods, and know they're not effing candy? Usually laundry detergent has a perfumy odor that doesn't smell very edible. When these snoflakes put the pods in their gaping maws, wouldn't they spit it out right away? I mean detergent can't taste very good.

Also, I've seen pics of these Tide Pods, and they don't really even look like candy. These snowflakes see the detergent pods in a Tide box sitting in the laundry room, and assume it's candy? Kyds really are stupid.

Here is a pic of a Tide Pod. I would have NEVER assumed something like this would have been candy.

IF it looks like ANYTHING besides what it is, it looks like AQUA FRESH TOOTHPASTE!!!



The moral of the story is: Kyds are Tards, and SO ARE BREEDERS!

This is the kind of story that would have hit a nerve in my mother, and I can just hear her now: "You kids never ate soap, or got into the cleaning supplies [which were not out of reach, but in a cupboard under the sink]. I said don't touch those, and you didn't."

It was the Little Debbie oatmeal cakes that were put out of reach...though I still managed to get into those.

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This is the kind of story that would have hit a nerve in my mother, and I can just hear her now: "You kids never ate soap, or got into the cleaning supplies [which were not out of reach, but in a cupboard under the sink]. I said don't touch those, and you didn't."

It was the Little Debbie oatmeal cakes that were put out of reach...though I still managed to get into those.

In my house it was the Oreos and the candy.

My mother made a game out of me helping with housework when I was about 3 to 5 years old. I still remember helping her with dusting. I missed one thing in the livingroom and my mother sat down and asked it I knew what I missed (my father's pipe ash tray needed wiping) and she quized me till I guessed what I had missed. PLUS.. she liked an uncluttered house. Every toy needed to be picked up after it was played with. No clutter by the time my father came home... that was the rule. Today... clutter drives me nuts. I am constantly putting things away around here.

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Today... clutter drives me nuts. I am constantly putting things away around here.

Would you mind coming by my house for about 30 minutes?

I've had an awful thought.... maybe it's the 'parents' who are telling their kids that the soap is candy. Hell, maybe they're feeding it to the kids themselves. I can't think of anything else that would explain it. Like others have posted, wouldn't the kid not eat it/spit it out once they smelt it or tasted it?

I keep thinking of the scumbag who poisoned his own kids' Halloween candy, or the bitch who had her husband murdered and tried to frame one of her daughters for it by getting her to 'get drunk with mommy' and spiked her drink with poison. (In the latter case, the girl kept complaining about the taste and moo told her it was the alcohol and told her to drink it faster.)

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I've had an awful thought.... maybe it's the 'parents' who are telling their kids that the soap is candy. Hell, maybe they're feeding it to the kids themselves. I can't think of anything else that would explain it. Like others have posted, wouldn't the kid not eat it/spit it out once they smelt it or tasted it?

I keep thinking of the scumbag who poisoned his own kids' Halloween candy, or the bitch who had her husband murdered and tried to frame one of her daughters for it by getting her to 'get drunk with mommy' and spiked her drink with poison. (In the latter case, the girl kept complaining about the taste and moo told her it was the alcohol and told her to drink it faster.)

Ah yes, the Candyman...and the Black Widow.

Ronald Clark O'Bryan (nicknamed The Candyman) (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984) was a murderer from Deer Park, Texas (near Houston), who was convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 with cyanide-laced Giant Pixy Stix candy in order to claim life insurance money. He may have also distributed poisoned candy to other children in an attempt to cover up his crime. However, Elizabeth, his daughter, and none of the other children ate any of the poisoned candy.


Stacey Castor (born July 24, 1967) is a resident of Clay, New York and is a convicted murderer. In 2007, she was charged with second degree murder, second degree attempted murder, and offering a false instrument in the first degree. She was found guilty of intentionally poisoning then-husband David Castor with antifreeze in 2005 and attempting to murder her daughter, Ashley Wallace, with a toxic cocktail consisting of crushed pills mixed in with vodka, orange juice, and Sprite in 2007 (an attempt to frame her, she wrote a suicide note and signed it as her daughter). In addition, she is suspected of having murdered her first husband, Michael Wallace, whose grave lies next to David Castor's.

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Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle--keep away from children.

I just saw a Dateline episode about Stacey Castor. So much for the canonization of mothers, eh?

When I was little I never would have thought to eat any kind of soap, cleaning supplies, etc. I did not always have the best judgement, for example I would often lick my hands clean when they got dirty. Maybe this is why I like cats so much? But still, it just never occured to me to eat household chemicals.

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clematis
"You kids never ate soap, or got into the cleaning supplies [which were not out of reach, but in a cupboard under the sink]. I said don't touch those, and you didn't."

Wow, that gave me a flashback....sounds just like what my mom always used to say, especially the "you kids" part. Soooo true. Another one she'd always say was "You kids didn't throw temper tantrums in the store like brats nowadays do." (And yes, she actually said "brats.")

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PLUS.. she liked an uncluttered house. Every toy needed to be picked up after it was played with. No clutter by the time my father came home... that was the rule. Today... clutter drives me nuts. I am constantly putting things away around here.

OMG, yes. I'm a neatnick for the same reason. Contrast that to the home improvement shows on TV these days. There's so much "Our kids have taken over the entire house!" What is wrong with people? I can't stand watching HGTV where they start going through some breeder's house, and the entire living room (or whatever) is completely filled with kindercrap. I guess that's what happens when you are your kids' fwweeennnnd.

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A local news site says it's kids 5 and under, and they are swallowing the dang things whole, not chewing them. I'm surprised the little buggers aren't choking on them!

Is there some candy out there that looks like this stuff and you have to swallow it whole, wrapper and all? I'm still not getting it. The 'swallowing them whole' thing is really freaky.

There was something in today's fishwrap about this "problem." So now the company is going to put the detergent in what sounds like a brat-proof container, which means responsible adults will 1) probably have to pay more to cover the cost of the container, and 2) have to deal with the frustrating packaging. All because breeders can't be bothered to keep the shit away from their snowflaykes or fucking watch their own goddamn spawn.

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So when did they realize what they put into their mouths was not candy? When they were foaming at the mouth with soap bubbles?

I agree that things have gone downhill, but there were some special ones around when I was a kid too. I'll never forget the neighbor girl taking a bottle of bubbles and drinking the entire thing while casually sitting under a tree.

I wasn't that much older than her and just stood there thinking to myself WTH?

Hey, does anyone remember Mr. Yuck? I recall seeing his face on certain products, or maybe they were stickers that parents put on household items.

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Hey, does anyone remember Mr. Yuck? I recall seeing his face on certain products, or maybe they were stickers that parents put on household items.

I remember the jingle "Mr Yuck is mean, Mr Yuck is green" That came out when I was well into my teens. My mother just say "dont eat that or you'll die" Worked good enough for me. LOL

I have to wonder... Do kids today even know what 'die' means? They are so freekin' protected from all those terms. So... why don't these over protective handlers protect them from things they are not supposed to swallow?
Explain DEATH and lock up the detergent pods. Problem solved.

A local news site says it's kids 5 and under, and they are swallowing the dang things whole, not chewing them. I'm surprised the little buggers aren't choking on them!
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WTF??? Aren't these things about the size of the ones used in the dishwasher? How can a kid swallow on of those whole? Parunts won't even let them have a hotdog unless its cut in pieces the size of a pea...and here they are ... swalowing detergent pods WHOLE ???

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Hey, does anyone remember Mr. Yuck? I recall seeing his face on certain products, or maybe they were stickers that parents put on household items.

Mr.Yuck was a green sticker parents could put on household products. My elementary school mailed them home when I was in first grade.They were also free in any doctor's office, emergency room, and dentist's office. I remember helping my moo put them on things like Ajax and Comet. I've always wondered what happened to them.

Every time I move into a new place I take a trip to Babies are Screaming at Us for childproof locks. They're a small white piece of plastic that you can put on cabinet doors. Two of my cats like to hide in the cabinets and I'm always worried about what they can get into. It has never cost any more than two hours and fifteen dollars to cat proof my home and if I can do it I think anyone can.