Alarming Trend: Teens Are Eating Laundry Detergent In 'Tide Pod Challenge'

PJ Media ^ | January 12, 2018 | Tyler O'Neil

[rktman]

Tide just cleaning the gene pool.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

And to quote Martha Stewart “it’s a good thing”.

[libstripper]

Hydrogen Peroxide is a powerful oxidizer. Just drop some of a 20% solution on your skin and see what happens.

[Ciaphas Cain]

A previous scare in 2015 — when concerns focused on toddlers accidentally eating the pods — inspired calls from Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) for new regulations on the pods.

It's rather surprising that Chunks Schumer wasn't the one screaming about it.

Why is it that every time some stupid fad hits the streets, it's a Democrat that ALWAYS jumps in front of the cameras demanding new regulations?

[BenLurkin]

Let’s not.

And say we did.

[diplomatic_immunity]

Whatever happened to drinking too much grain alcohol like a typical 19 year old from my generation?

[heterosupremacist]

Stupidity re-defined...

[LucyT]

Darwin marches onward.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hydrogen Peroxide is a powerful oxidizer.

Which makes it an ideal fuel for jet packs.

[LouieFisk]

I’ve heard of washing a kid’s mouth out with a bar of soap, but this beats that.

[Calvin Locke]

...20%...

Ha! I've used 40%. As a kid, an older cousin was staying with us one Summer, and I got a cut, and grabbed the, well, "a" peroxide bottle. Little did I know, it was for her hair.

Certainly killed any germs, not to mention bleaching skin edges of the cut.

[hattend]

Kids are not taught any kind of logical thinking nowadays.

My mom washing my mouth out with soap when I was 5 taught me some things: Don’t eat soap, Don’t cuss in front of my parents, show respect for mom and dad.

[wheresmyusa]

[LouieFisk]

In our home we had Lava brand soap - the sandy grit of it was extra incentive to us kids not to be foul-mouthed.

[fireman15]

You just cannot prevent stupid people from doing stupid things. It is a sad fact of life.

[wheresmyusa]

Lava would undoubtedly suck in a major way

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“I have to eat detergent to get the taste of jenkem(*) out of my mouth!”

(*) The sniffing fermented human waste to get high hoax of just a few years ago.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"I'm just bored, so I'm doing something right now that is completely stupid."

This kid needs some problems in his life.

If he keeps this up he will have them.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

People are just plain out stupid these days.