TV News Anchor Goes Rogue, Tells Gruesome Tide Pod Story
By now, most of our readers should be aware of the utterly moronic “Tide pod challenge” that is the latest trend among idiotic teenagers.
This, the latest in a series of shockingly stupid and potentially harmful trends among young people, involves the consumption of small but highly concentrated and toxic laundry detergent packets.
But one news anchor in Richmond, Virginia, has seen trends like these come and go, and he has zero sympathy for any teenagers dumb enough to actually try the “Tide pod challenge.”
Curt Autry, of NBC affiliate WWBT, took to social media to bluntly let the world know how he really felt about those who would engage in the Tide pod challenge.
“HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS … if you do the Tide Pod challenge. You’ll die, we’ll report it on the news … then two days later, we’ll cover your candlelight vigil in the parking lot of your high school, where organizers will ask participants to bring orange and blue balloons (the color of Tide Pods),” wrote Autry.
“We’ll get interviews with all of your friends who will tell us you were a really smart, fun kid to be around (despite the fact that you ate a Tide Pod),” he continued. “Your parents will cry and miss you terribly, but deep down they’ll harbor life-long feelings of guilt, knowing they raised a child stupid enough to eat laundry detergent.
“So, the moral of this story is — don’t be a moron, Tide Pods only go in the washer — NEVER your mouth. #JustSayNO,” the anchor concluded.
According to The Washington Post, the Tide pod challenge is nothing more than the latest iteration of dumb teenagers doing dumb things.
It follows such genius activity as dousing oneself with rubbing alcohol and igniting it, coating one’s hands in salt and holding ice until it burns or throwing pots of boiling water on unsuspecting friends.
Sadly, according to the Post, U.S. poison control centers have already reported at least 37 cases thus far in 2018 of teenagers becoming sick from eating the detergent packets, at least half of those being done intentionally.
In comparison, they reported about 220 such cases of teens becoming sick from detergent pods in 2017, about a quarter of which were intentional.
For the record, eating a Tide pod can lead to vomiting, shortness of breath, significant change in blood pressure and heart rate, seizures, a loss of consciousness or even death. Underlying medical issues such as asthma can potentially exacerbate those symptoms and make them worse.
Proctor & Gamble, parent company of Tide, was quick to express in a statement how it was “deeply concerned about conversations related to intentional and improper use of liquid laundry pacs.”
We couldn’t agree more, and share their “deep concern” that there are actually teenagers who are moronic enough to think it is OK to eat packets of laundry detergent.
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