r/CrazyIdeas • • 4h ago

Tranquilizers for police

4 Upvotes

Anesthetics are routinely used to prevent patients from becoming violent on the operating table. If it works for preventing patients undergoing surgery from behaving violently, could it also be delivered by dart gun or blowpipes to suspects for the same purpose?


r/CrazyIdeas • • 13h ago

The IRS should give a tax deduction for people who get an annual physical exam

26 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 15h ago

Open a bar called "5 years sober"

5 Upvotes

Open a bar called "5 Years Sober" you can say to your buddies that you're almost to 5 years sober. Or I'm happy to say I'm now at 5 years sober.

Addiction isn't funny, but sometimes bars have funny names. Right?


r/CrazyIdeas • • 22h ago

If my dinner has a second job, it should help pay for itself

100 Upvotes

Chinese food after work sounded like a good idea. Opened the fortune cookie that came with it and found an ad on the fortune. Who looked at that tiny piece of paper and thought “we could monetize this”? Fine but let me hand it back for a dollar off. If my dinner comes with advertising, I want a cut.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 1h ago

Replace air traffic controllers by ChatGPT last model

0 Upvotes

Cheaper air flight tickets. I trust more in machines than humans for repetitive tasks.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

Whenever someone says, "it's always five o'clock somewhere," respond, "well, it's always too late somewhere," then recite the carbon monoxide in the garage hotline number by heart.

23 Upvotes

Just to be a buzzkill.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 5h ago

What if cars had an aviation-style Minimum Equipment List (MEL)?

0 Upvotes

After watching this YouTube Short and seeing so much deferred maintenance on the road, I started thinking about how much safer our roads could be if cars had something similar to aviation’s Minimum Equipment List (MEL), after all aviation is the safest mode of transportation.

Having studied aircraft maintenance, I’m familiar with how an MEL specifies which equipment can be inoperative, under what conditions an aircraft can continue operating, and how long repairs can be deferred.

Imagine applying this concept to cars: dangerous brake or steering defects would ground the vehicle, some faults would have strict repair deadlines, and nonessential failures could wait until scheduled maintenance.

But what about people who can’t afford safety-critical repairs? I’d pair this system with an income-based repair assistance program to help eligible owners pay for essential repairs, ensuring financial hardship doesn’t force them to drive unsafe vehicles.

Obviously, cars aren’t aircraft, and implementation would have its challenges. Still, why not combine clear safety requirements with financial assistance?

Would this improve road safety, or would the costs and enforcement challenges outweigh the benefits?


r/CrazyIdeas • • 13h ago

Solar-powered yogurt

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 0m left

Single-use chairs

• Upvotes

Bums can be dirty so sitting on chairs can spread dirtiness cos the muck can get through undies and pants. So let's create and industry, economy and world where it is normal for chairs to be single use only.

Cushions are easy-ish to be single use and these are sometimes used on chairs but not always. Lots of wooden, plastic and metal chairs don't use cushions.

Imagine how many jobs we'll create from single-use chairs! Imagine the technologies we'll develop from researching and developing single use chairs! All environmentally friendly of course! Imagine buying weekly pack of single use chairs just like you would a bag of tomatoes.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 12h ago

Continue to allow municipalities to install surveillance cameras, provided they are hand cranked and shoot 15 perf 65mm film at 60fps

4 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 15h ago

Tinfoil pyjamas

6 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 18h ago

We haven’t built enough pyramids. Let’s build some more

142 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 12h ago

Sitcom revolving around a family of sex offenders.

18 Upvotes

I don't know where the show is set, but the house can't be 500 feet from a school.

Edit: no trick or treaters on halloween per the parole officer


r/CrazyIdeas • • 21h ago

Laminate your money to preserve its value

20 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 9h ago

Have a custom license plate that says "IMDRUNK"

3 Upvotes

Would be crazy to see someone have that while driving. Disclaimer- I do not condone nor do I partake in drunk driving. Just think it would be funny lol


r/CrazyIdeas • • 9h ago

Disposable tissues

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 13h ago

Italy should restart production of tankettes, but modernized with composite armor and thermal optics.

9 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

Deliver webpages using pigeons carrying printed-out versions of the page

10 Upvotes

Hyper text transfer pigeon


r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

Start a men’s haircut trend - ‘the crooked hair piece’

4 Upvotes

Get a haircut that looks like a bad toupee that is being worn crooked. Maybe dye the hair piece just a slightly bit different shade than the sideburns and sides of head as well.

Just to clarify - there is absolutely nothing wrong with men wearing a hair piece. This is going for a poorly matched, poorly fitted one.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

Actually flag reposts

3 Upvotes

don't just downvote them, don't comment "repost", don't just scroll by... actually flag them and get the bot banned.

I've got 4 OC posts that I've made that have somehow made it into the pool bots pull from, I've seen each of them reposted with the same title word for word as my original post. The accounts that posted them were obviously bots (most recently an account that made two posts 12 years ago and then reposted my OC after years of inactivity... so its even worse than an account MADE for karma farming, its an old account that got hacked). I flagged the posts, theu got taken down, and hopefully the accounts got banned too.

If we want a Reddit thats not COMPLETELY overrun by bots, we gotta use the tools given to us to flag them and get them banned.


r/CrazyIdeas • • 14h ago

Labs all over the world should create and secretly release new weak, experimental viruses similar but different to the current viruses we have in the natural world so that humans build natural resistance without people having to complain about inoculations and their risk.

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 15h ago

You've heard of capsule hotels? Well welcome to the Capsaicin Hotel!

5 Upvotes

Ahhhhh my eyes!


r/CrazyIdeas • • 16h ago

Genetically modify sheep so the noise they make sounds like "eep" instead of "baah". This will simplify our barnyard onomatopoeia noises.

7 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas • • 20h ago

Intensive couples therapy where you’re both set up to be stranded on an island where you have to work together.

3 Upvotes