Bad Life Hacks That Might Work, But You Definitely Should Not Test Them

With the creation of the internet, it's become much easier for people worldwide to share easy hacks that make everyday activities a little simpler for the average person. While some of these "life hacks" offer a lot of ingenious solutions to problems, some of them are a little less than helpful.

Here are some of the most outrageous and hilarious "life hacks" we've found online.

Technically, It's True

The elites don't want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 458 ducks
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Photo Credit: Reddit / liquidsnake84

Technically, the ducks at the park are free.

And if you're able to avoid the watching eyes of people who might accuse you of poaching, you truly can own as many ducks as you want.

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A Shark Definitely Wrote This

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shark week is actually the safest time to go to the beach because all the sharks are busy being on TV
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A bunch of other sharks huddled around the one shark who knows how to type and encouraged him as he wrote this tweet under his fake human account.

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The sharks immediately started preparing for their shark week dinner special.

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This Actually Is A Pretty Good Anti-Theft System

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Replace your cat litter box with an Amazon box. When it's full, tape it up and place it on your front porch for someone to steal
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Jmessaglia
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Is it wrong to give an unwitting thief a box filled with your cat's waste? Maybe.

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However, it's also wrong to steal and I like to believe that the two cancel each other out in this situation.

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Well, That Was Insightful

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page one: how do live to be 100. Page two: live to be 99 and then be VERY CAREFUL
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What's the key to living to an old age? Just not dying! It's so simple and yet so many don't achieve it.

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It's a shame that many people can't follow simple advice.

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There Is No "Us Vs. Them" In "Team"

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if both basketball teams just worked together they could score so many more points
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If the two teams stopped trying to block each other from scoring and instead shared the ball evenly, they'd get so many more points in each game.

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It's like they've never heard of "sportsmanship" before.

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The Numbers Don't Lie, Folks

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Aldi has shopping carts for 25 cents! I just bought 40 for $10 and took them directly to the scrapyard where I got paid 7.5 cents per pound for a net profit of $290! #winning!
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When creating a business model, it's essential that you work out certain elements of your new endeavor. Is it feasible? How long would you need to operate before turning a profit?

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This person seems to have it all figured out.

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Warning: Do NOT Try This At Home

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if you put a bee in the freezer, if will get cold and fall asleep. After it's asleep, put it in your mouth, but don't eat it. Just let it sit there. It will get warm and wake up. Now you have a bee in your mouth
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In this person's defense, they never suggested that you should actually try this or what you should do once you have a bee in your mouth.

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They just said that you could do it.

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What Does It Take To Have A Clean Bathroom? Catfishing?

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I'm pretending to be a hot girl on tinder so I can match with my roommate and tell him I'm coming over so he'll clean the apartment
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I get it: having a roommate who doesn't pull their own weight when it comes to home maintenance can make anyone a little desperate and crazy.

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If catfishing is the only way you can motivate them, do what you must, king.

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Ignorance Is Bliss

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take an item that's about to expire and place it into another container without and expiration date to make it last forever
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Food and drinks can't expire if you don't know the expiry date. Numbers and dates are simply government lies to keep us throwing out milk too early.

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Stay woke, my friends!

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Yeah, He's A "Doctor" With A "Medical Degree"

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if you really want to piss someone off when introducing them, make little finger quotations in the air when announcing their job title
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I'm going to start doing this to everyone I meet in my professional life.

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I might get fired and never be employed again, but it will be worth the 10 seconds of satisfaction.

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Ice Ice Baby

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pro tip: if you take the ice tray out of your freezer you have unlimited ice (photo of freezer entirely full of ice cubes
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Why would you ever need this much ice accessible to you at once?

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I don't know, but I'm glad that I have the option available to me just in case.

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...And They Said Romance Was Dead!

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I didn't tell my date that I was getting sick and we made out. Next week, she got sick and I earned huge points by
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The movies lied.

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True love is lying by omission to a new love interest and then, when your actions backfire for them, using the opportunity to further your romantic agenda.

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Imagine Looking 40 Years Younger In Your Passport Photo

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Pro life tip: get your passport renewed on the 29th of February so your new passport is valid for 40 years
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Getting your passport renewed regularly is a huge hassle, so this innovative method is definitely the way to go.

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There's no way that airport security will be concerned that your passport photo shows you in your early 30's when flying as a senior!

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Viva La Revolution!

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Don't ever be sad on a Saturday. Wait til Monday. You cry on the clock. Don't let capitalism
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If you hate your job, you shouldn't waste a single second of your spare time doing something you could at work.

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Cry in a vacant stairwell! Go number two during a meeting! Faint in the middle of a presentation!

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Overweight Baggage Charges? I Don't Know Her

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person weighing suitcase lifts one side with foot to reduce weight on scale
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Airlines really know how to rack up the costs of flying and it can be frustrating to try and keep travel affordable on a budget.

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Sometimes you just need to go the extra mile to avoid paying for an overweight bag.

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I Mean, The Logic Checks Out

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P1: If rubbing alcohol fixes outside boo boo, then drinking alcohol fixes inside boo boo. P2: Chris no
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How can one alcohol be a healing agency while the other hurts you?

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That can't be right. Chris is definitely onto something and I will not let anyone silence him on his quest to uncover the truth.

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You Can't Arrest Me If You're Afraid Of Illness!

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photo of person, when pulled over by cop, puts up a sign that says
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Is that speeding ticket really worth risking exposure to a fast-spreading viral infection?

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These are the questions we have to ask of our law enforcers. In other news, I haven't been ticketed in weeks!

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HMU If You Want To Join My Dirt-Eating Cult

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Worms eat dirt, bird eats worm, man eat bird. Notice that at each level of the food chain, about 90% of the energy is lost in the form of heat. We cut out the middle men. Join me, eating dirt to become a being of pure energy
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I've heard that eating dirt will turn you into a superhuman vessel of pure energy.

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And will not cause you to get very ill from all the bacteria and toxins contained in the soil.

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Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

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person reheats pizza slice by placing it on a hot upside-down iron and using a hair drying to heat the top
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Ordering pizza to the hotel room is all fun and games until you wake up the next morning without any direct means to reheat it.

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Only the innovative can survive the struggle.

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How To Get Rich Quick, Step One:

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not eating all day so you can get drunk off two beers. It's called financial health look it up idiot
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In this day and age, it can be hard to develop a feasible budgeting plan to help you save a little extra money, but this guy is clearly thinking outside the box and taking action.

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Inspiring.

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What Are They Going To Do, Fire You?

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Tomorrow, just wake up, wear your formal clothes, go to any company and start working. If they call the police, go to the police station and start working there too. We're tired of sending CVs
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The job market is tough and it can get disheartening if you consistently are searching for employment.

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Cheat the system by just showing up to work every day, overtaking the HR department, and making it impossible for them to fire you.

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Omg! What A #Genius Storage Hack!

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cut your tennis balls in half to store more in each container
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I can't believe that this #hack hasn't caught on faster! You can save so much space by storing your tennis balls this way.

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So what if you can never actually use them again?

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Ha! Take That You Identity Thieves!

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my credit score is low but it's because I want to protect myself from identity theft. no one can take out a mortgage in my name if I can't even take out a mortgage in my name
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People can't steal what you don't have.

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So the real key in life to avoid being the victim of a crime is to be so visibly lacking in assets that no one wants to rob you.

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For Those Extra-Difficult Mondays

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Life hack: put booze in a cough syrup bottle, and you can do shots at work. As a bonus, people will think you are sick and stay away from you
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Sometimes you just need a little extra something to get you through the workday.

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Whether that something is a couple of shots of hard liquor or having Carol from accounting not speak to you for a few hours, it's self-care.

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Free Laundry Service

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facebook post in local group: Warning: this guy was supposed to buy our washer and dryer machine for $150. He wanted to see it working first and asked if he could do a load of laundry. After he finished, he said
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Do you ever need to do a quick load of laundry but don't have the $2.25 it costs to use a laundromat so you instead make an offer on a Craigslist ad and scam your way into using a washer for free?

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Me neither.

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I Will Cheat And I Will Cheat Without Consequences

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anti-plagiarism detecting program showed that i had a paragraph from wikipedia so I opened wikipedia and deleted the paragraph from there
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Universities and colleges might have stringent plagiarism policies.

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But what they never anticipated was how hard students are willing to work in order to avoid working hard on their assignments.

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Anxiety, But Make It ~Spicy~

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tip: spice up your panic attack with a harmonica
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You have regular, old-fashioned panic attacks? Boring.

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I use my panic attacks to sound like a very rushed and emotionally unwell drifter from the 1930's who hops into train cars for transportation.

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But Really, What Would The Police Do?

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lmfao y'all still slowing down when you pass an accident? real winners speed up. What's the cop going to do? leave while a man is being rescued by the jaws of life just to give me a ticket for doing 107 in a 45? grow up
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While we don't condone blatantly breaking the law, I do have to wonder what would happen if someone was clearly speeding while passing a collision. Would there be repercussions?

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I'm not saying someone should try it so I can know the answers, but...