35 Bad Ideas That Seemed Genius at the Time

If you’ve ever said “How has no one ever thought of this?” after coming up with an allegedly genius idea, you’ve probably got a real stinker on your hands. Plenty of thoughts have been had since the beginning of humanity, so it’s unlikely that you’re cooking with enough gas to have a real breakthrough. For instance, one guy figured he’d “cut out the middleman” and put sriracha directly into his nostrils to clear his sinuses, using the rationale that “hot sauce clears your sinuses when you eat it, so…” Instead, he immediately learned why the middleman is so very needed. 

More Redditors have recalled the times their stupid little schemes fell completely flat, and these stories include more than one person who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a power washer.