30 Facepalm Examples Of How Sometimes Bad Design Can Kill You

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Sometimes you just have to applaud really bad designs and poor execution. And by applaud, we mean to laugh at.

Whether it’s horrible marketing or terrible engineering, these bad designs teeter on being pretty dangerous but really (unfortunately) funny.

The subreddit r/DangerousDesigns features more than 140,000 members who share pics of designs that haven’t exactly been thought out all the way through.

From questionable architecture to confusing bleach with yogurt, here are really dangerous designs that need to be taken back to the drawing board.

1. Turning your airbag into a deadly weapon.

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2. “Was looking for a budget mattress when I saw this…”

u/SeeSeaSerene/Reddit

3. Yum — strawberry or bleach?

u/67tap/Reddit

4. “Guess it’s back to good ol’ drunk driving”

u/mckenziedenisee/Reddit

5. But but but…

u/Timmymac1000/Reddit

6. “Hmm?”

u/awakening137/Reddit

7. Don’t do it

u/sfxnesh476/Reddit

8. “Staircase beautified with loose boulders and a broken pelvis”

u/SteveCalloway/Reddit

9. “This hair bleach”

u/Antoan565/Reddit

10. “Almost did it, too”

u/Adecker100/Reddit

11. “We’ll see”

u/Kombatgirl/Reddit

12. “Children’s playground in 1912”

u/robabl/Reddit

13. “Almost pulled a Michael Scott while delivering grocers today”

u/Samxvalle/Reddit

14. Should be fine

u/404_GravitasNotFound/Reddit

15. “Couldn’t get a good seat? Risk your life trying to watch the game!”

u/tdalbert/Reddit

16. Precision parking

u/abyigit/Reddit

17. Is this part of the ride?

u/Phrastou/Reddit

18. “This 1955 device for smoking a whole packet of cigarettes at once”

u/Nightstar95/Reddit

19. 1930’s baby hanging design

u/Honeyontoast123/Reddit

20. “Sorry, wheelchair users!”

u/dancingpianofairy/Reddit

21. They’re both relieving something

u/Wafflestompingpro/Reddit

22. “Warning label inside a helmet I received when we rented 4-wheelers”

u/jswa8/Reddit

23. “The cannonball loop waterslide, a slide so dangerous it was shutdown almost immediately after opening”

u/metricrules/Reddit

24. “every chair in this resort fits through the deck, and the majority of people who stay here are seniors”

u/emugamer222/Reddit

25. Artificial snow made out of asbestos from the 1930s

u/philms/Reddit

26. Bathtub and bail

u/TheLoneGinger9/Reddit

27. The human equivalent of magnifying glasses melting ants

u/badsalad/Reddit

28. Tread lightly, bikers

u/Oskar2705/Reddit

29. “Poor guy”

u/GinormousNut/Reddit

30. Break your foot after every slide!

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Ty Jadah

Tyler is the Montreal City Editor at Daily Hive. He goes by “Ty” for short and “Tyl” for medium.