Experts warn that parents are lazy and kids are stupid - eating detergent capsules

Experts warn that detergent capsules are choking, poison threat to kids

I saw this article and thought "no shit Sherlock". I can't believe that a parent would put any kind of cleaning supplies in an area where kids can reach it. Of course, it's the manufacturer's fault for making them squishy, colorful, and not properly child proofed. My god, we need to add Darwin Awards to the list of prizes that are given to any kid that attends (or are born).

This one comment cracked me up.

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I heard about this and quickly switched to the powder kind. Now my kid snorts detergent with a rolled up dollar bill.

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"All the children recovered, but... the incidents had 'a catastrophic impact on the child and family,'" the Journal reported. FFS are these new kids idiots? I recall at the age of about 3, my mother was dying some curtains red in the bathrrom and she went to answer the phone, "only looking away for a moment"™ and left the bucket sitting there. I walked in and I remember looking at it and thinking it was a bucket of Koolaid. I pulled out a Dixie cup and dipped it in it, smelled it, touched my tongue to it, and remember thinking, "Eww". My mother came back into the room and saw the cup in my hand and panicked wanting to know how much I had drank and I said,"It smells funny and doesn't taste like Koolaid". Are these new kids fucking MORONS? Can't they SMELL and TASTE it isn't candy before consuming enough to require hospitalization?

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

You really can't make this stuff up.

The fault lies with the stupid and/or lazy parents who either don't watch their kids, don't store poison properly or both. Not with the manufacturers.

I attended a fun class on poisons (aimed at mystery fiction writers) and the expert said the most dangerous item in the average household was, by far, Tylenol, because of its effect on the liver at relatively low doses. And according to her, a large tube of toothpaste contains enough flouride to kill an average adult -- if the adult were to eat an entire tube at one sitting rather than brushing with and spitting out a small amount a couple of times a day.

Point being, there are many hazardous items in our homes, but as they say, "you can't fix stupid."

I saw that on the news this morning! Mom and I both couldn't figure out how the little morons would eat a WHOLE pod instead of realizing it's soap immediately and spitting it out. Let nature sort itself out, I say. But I'm a bitch.

Sigh. I reckon I best confess my own stupidity.

When I was four, my parents went to visit Dad's brother. I wanted to brush my teeth, and wandered into Uncle Noah's bathroom. I found this great lemon flavored toothpaste and tried it. I told Mom about it and asked if we could get some. She wanted to see it. I showed it to her.

"Son, that's Bryl-Creem!" she said. "It's for your hair!"

I was talking to Hubby about this a while ago. As we're walking through the grocery store I pick up the tide pods and ask him if he would have ever thought these were candy. He made some comment about kids being stupid. When I told him that one of the speshull ssnowfleaques who ate these things was a ten year old he just looks at me in shock. "Nobody is that stupid." His exact words. One kid was and if I could find that story again I would show it to Hubby and then post it here.

The stupid hurts.

I would think that detergent tastes pretty fucking bad, so how can they eat an entire pod without tossing their cookies? you really have to be a special kind of stupid to eat one of these things.

I'd like to think of this as natures attempt at a late-term abortion!

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Sigh. I reckon I best confess my own stupidity.

When I was four, my parents went to visit Dad's brother. I wanted to brush my teeth, and wandered into Uncle Noah's bathroom. I found this great lemon flavored toothpaste and tried it. I told Mom about it and asked if we could get some. She wanted to see it. I showed it to her.

"Son, that's Bryl-Creem!" she said. "It's for your hair!"

Still, you just brushed your teeth with a small amount, you didn't eat it.

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When I was 7 or so, my mom had left a bottle of Nair Hair remover on the ledge of the bathtub and I thought it was hair conditioner. The MOMENT I poured some into my hand and smelled it, pretty pink bottle or not, I just rinsed it off my hand. Later I said, "Mom, that new conditioner STINKS! Could you buy the other kind next time?" I'd be willing to bet these new kids would have been walking around bald, had they been in the same situation.

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

Yeah, I saw a thing on the news about this yesterday too. One of the local anchors remarked about 'can't they taste?' The smell is probably pretty good, but they can't taste good. It's freekin SOAP!

Soap does not taste good. This is hardly rocket science.

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When I was 7 or so, my mom had left a bottle of Nair Hair remover on the ledge of the bathtub and I thought it was hair conditioner. The MOMENT I poured some into my hand and smelled it, pretty pink bottle or not, I just rinsed it off my hand. Later I said, "Mom, that new conditioner STINKS! Could you buy the other kind next time?" I'd be willing to bet these new kids would have been walking around bald, had they been in the same situation.

Slightly off topic for a moment. When I was 18 I put Nair in my brother's shampoo. It took off a couple patches of hair but didn't do major damage. I think that's because my brother was smart enough to realize something was wrong. I doubt modern kids would be that smart.

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This one comment cracked me up.

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I heard about this and quickly switched to the powder kind. Now my kid snorts detergent with a rolled up dollar bill.

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I saw that on the news this morning! Mom and I both couldn't figure out how the little morons would eat a WHOLE pod instead of realizing it's soap immediately and spitting it out. Let nature sort itself out, I say. But I'm a bitch.

Getting one's mouth washed out with soap was a deterrent to cursing or sassing mom. How can they remotely think it tastes good...

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I can get how a kid would want to play with those things... but chew on it and swallow the liquid or the whole thing? Is there actually some candy out there on the market that resembles these things? I know kids are apt to swallow stuff like buttons or marbles... but these things are rather big!

And I still can't shake the idea that some of the 'parents' of these kids are feeding their kids the damn things.

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I saw that on the news this morning! Mom and I both couldn't figure out how the little morons would eat a WHOLE pod instead of realizing it's soap immediately and spitting it out. Let nature sort itself out, I say. But I'm a bitch.

Getting one's mouth washed out with soap was a deterrent to cursing or sassing mom. How can they remotely think it tastes good...

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how many here have seen the little bastards refusing to take medicine.. which is flavored and sugared, yet the same little turd will turn around and eat this garbage??

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CERTIFIED HOSEHEAD!!!

people (especially women) do not give ONE DAMN about what they inflict on children
and I defy anyone to prove me wrong:

The selfish wants of adults outweigh the needs of the child.

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they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Add to this that, many of those who refuse or are unable to prove they are
citizens, will receive free insurance paid for by those who are.""

Politicians are like diapers: both need changing regularly.

Wow. Kids'll eat anything that is bite-sized, I guess.

This is another thing that makes me wonder how I survived childhood. Detergents were kept under the kitchen counter and on the laundry room shelf. I never sampled any.

The thing is just about anything can be toxic in large amounts - even water. It just amazes me that anyone of any age could be so fucking dumb that they could open a bottle of bleach, sniff it, and STILL chug it despite the smell. As you guys have said, there is no cure for stupid and if a kid will sit there and eat a bunch of soap even when it tastes bad, maybe it's for the best they get good and sick and/or die.

You gotta be some kind of dumbass human wasteland to fucking sit there and poison yourself. And those pods are "the size of marshmallows." How does a small child choke on something that big? I don't even think I could swallow a marshmallow enough to choke myself, so how can a kid do it? Also, how do you open those things to begin with? I've never seen them before - do you open them into the washing machine? Does the wrapper dissolve in water and release the detergent? I get they might look like toys - they kind of do. But I can't get over that someone would swallow something like that. I'm sure all the mommies will be suing now.

Well, one thing is for sure - if your kid is dumb enough to sit there and chow down on detergent packets when there's food in the fridge, he'll fucking learn his lesson when he's puking his guts out in the hospital. Sometimes, lessons need to be learned the hard way, for both the breeders and the brats.

To quote Carlin, "The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't get to grow up and have children of his own." I don't think we're missing out on much as a society to potentially lose a bunch of morons who can't tell the difference between soap and candy.

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Even when our garbage gets upturned by raccoons and scavenged by o'possum and God only knows what other animals that lurk in the woods(I live out in the country) they ALWAYS leave behind any pieces of soap or anything with detergent or soap on it like Clorox wipes or bits of bath soap, plastic, paper, and even spoiled FOOD or most anything not edible. I once made a batch of some chicken casserole with a new recipe that was so nasty we threw it out and the animals didn't even eat t! If wild animals can smell or taste something isn't edible you'd think a human child could too.

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

My dog spits out stuff that is bitter...how can he figure it out?

You can't get kyds to eat veggies, but they eat and swallow soap?

I saw this on Yahoo! a long time ago also, and noted how great my mom was in teaching me how not to eat soap when I was little. Like get the hint , this is a moo problem. not a product liability prob

Once again, makes me wonder how we made it this far as a species when young humans are so dumb that they will sit there and eat inedible things. On a rare occasion, you might hear of a house pet choking to death on something. Sometimes they live - plenty of animals are dumb as shit and will gladly eat inedible things and forever pass painful object-filled stools (like my cat that eats string and whines when he can't take a dump). But it happens SO often with little kids, not just with inedible things, but look how often they choke on food because they're too fucking dumb to know how to chew. I understand shit like don't feed a kid certain foods because they're prone to choking on them (like hot dogs and carrots), but consider how often you hear a kid gagging and dry heaving when they eat because they can't seem to understand what chewing is.

What the fuck happened before the age of child-proofing? Were human children this dumb long ago? Did a lot of toddlers and older children die because they decided to eat a rock or a stick? Or did humans have more common sense back then and knew enough to not sit there like retards and stick random things in their mouths?

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I have to wonder if these breeders that are "suing" over this aren't shoving these things down little rugrat's throat so they can complain about it "looking like candy" and "the child eating it" in order to bring a lawsuit I am serious as a fucking heart attack.

NO GODDAMNED WAY do these brats put this in their own mouths, chew on it for a while and swallow it. The minute you would stick one of those laundry pods in your mouth you would know and spit it out immediately.

If it's a 2 year old and moo shoves one down their throat, then rushes them (on the medicaid/welfare dollar of course) to the hospital .. how is the hospital or the company lawyers going to prove that the brat didn't eat it and mom shoved it down their throat intentionally? Kids that age aren't old enough to say that moocunt did it! I'll bet all of these lawsuits are from breeders with brats 2 years and younger.

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I have to wonder if these breeders that are "suing" over this aren't shoving these things down little rugrat's throat so they can complain about it "looking like candy" and "the child eating it" in order to bring a lawsuit I am serious as a fucking heart attack.

NO GODDAMNED WAY do these brats put this in their own mouths, chew on it for a while and swallow it. The minute you would stick one of those laundry pods in your mouth you would know and spit it out immediately.

If it's a 2 year old and moo shoves one down their throat, then rushes them (on the medicaid/welfare dollar of course) to the hospital .. how is the hospital or the company lawyers going to prove that the brat didn't eat it and mom shoved it down their throat intentionally? Kids that age aren't old enough to say that moocunt did it! I'll bet all of these lawsuits are from breeders with brats 2 years and younger.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! There is a story of one ten year old who ate the damn thing (if I could find that story again I would post it) but 99% of cases involve children under three. You've been here for all of two posts and I already love you. (Two that I've seen).