30 Facepalm Examples Of How Sometimes Bad Design Can Kill You

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.

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

3. Yum — strawberry or bleach?

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

5. But but but…

6. “Hmm?”

7. Don’t do it

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

9. “This hair bleach”

10. “Almost did it, too”

11. “We’ll see”

12. “Children’s playground in 1912”

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

14. Should be fine

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

16. Precision parking

17. Is this part of the ride?

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

19. 1930’s baby hanging design

20. “Sorry, wheelchair users!”

21. They’re both relieving something

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

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

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

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

26. Bathtub and bail

27. The human equivalent of magnifying glasses melting ants

28. Tread lightly, bikers

29. “Poor guy”

30. Break your foot after every slide!

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