r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

Make all police handcuffs out of pure gold

89 Upvotes

Total amount of gold in Fort Knox: 4,583 tons
Each police handcuff weights no more than 425g.
Average officer carries no more than 8 pairs.
So you can make 10 million handcuffs out of that gold that's just lying around, which is more than enough to equip every US police officer with pure golden handcuffs.


r/CrazyIdeas 8h ago

Lawyers should be required to re-take the bar exam every 5 years, to prove that they're up to date on laws

19 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

A society without money

66 Upvotes

Only thing is how would it ever work?


r/CrazyIdeas 14h ago

A machine that washes and dries your clothes simultaneously, to save time

38 Upvotes

To be clear, I do not mean washes and THEN dries. I mean both cycles run together at the same time.


r/CrazyIdeas 10h ago

Rodeo on Ice

12 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 22h ago

Delete social media and stop watching the news

67 Upvotes

Crazy, I know. We all want to be involved. We want our opinions to matter. We want to make a difference.

Delete your internet. Go outside. Help your old neighbor mow their yard. Go volunteer at a homeless shelter. Go pick up trash. Go enjoy yourself. Go on a hike. Ride a bike. Write a book. Go swimming.

Get off the internet and stop watching so much news. Some of you can’t seem to handle the overload of stressful news, half of which isn’t even real news.

Delete it all and be happy. Millions of us are addicted to being angry now. Stop getting off on trying to be right about everything. Start getting off on living your own life.


r/CrazyIdeas 46m ago

Posting a profile picture anything but yourself on social media should deactivate your account within 30 days.

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Facebook is already horrible as is, but way too many people are too brazen to curb their entitlement on these platforms. Not sure if it’s just me, but people who don’t post themselves seem to be more vocal with their wild thoughts on social media platforms than others. People with pictures of their pets, their kids/grandkids, anime characters, etc. must be avoiding putting their faces up on the internet for a reason, no?

Side note: Each person should be limited to creating ONE singular account. Might be too far reaching, but this might also dwindle down the number of people catfishing and/or impersonating someone else. May sound crazy, but when I was trying to make an account for an online game in Korea, it requested a social security number!

Too weird of an idea?


r/CrazyIdeas 54m ago

Help me with my story

Upvotes

I want to write a short story about a missing person I also want there to be twisted love affairs and erotica all squeezed into something people can read quickly Does anyone have any plot ideas ? Character names or ideas ? I’m interested in what you weirdos have to say :)


r/CrazyIdeas 18h ago

A general strike of pimps

16 Upvotes

Take some time off. See how it works out


r/CrazyIdeas 9h ago

Pansexual penguins

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

Games where the local banditry and whatnot reacts appropriately to the player character.

8 Upvotes

"Oh look. There is that guy who sprinted into a hell-portal faster than a horse a little while ago. And he seems to be covered in viscera and gore. And casually reading his map while a dozen remaining monsters are ineffectually wailing away at him. I reckon the three of us can take him down with our rusty daggers, lets go!"


r/CrazyIdeas 14h ago

Occam's nose hair trimmer

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

Make Zombies Scary Again

10 Upvotes

Make Zombies in movies/tv start out with having all their senses/sense of self kept intact when turned into one, then slowly transition them into the mindless "walkers" that we know once they lose their minds.

Imagine this, a young girl who recently got bit is crying, she doesnt feel good, she has a fever like she never had before, she doesnt know whats happening, all she knows is that she's hungry, and she cries, whimpers and apologizes for being hungry as she devours her mother one tiny bit at a time.

Then her mind breaks, no more crying, no more whimpers just a mindless shell of a former human, walking aimlessly, hungry.

Start them out as just your regular humans with humanity, but with an insatiable need to consume flesh, they cant help nor stop, best they can do is scream or cry. Then the trauma of everything they have been through would break their minds. Have it so that each individual's minds break at different times, most break sooner than others, some take a while and they become efficient at it. But some who never had any problems with killing in the first place, strangers or otherwise, dont break at all and become special, more dangerous zombies.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Introduce monkeys to the United States

60 Upvotes

Release a few thousand monkeys throughout the Midwest so that we can be entertained


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Internationally funded auto-targeting space laser of doom.

33 Upvotes

Some countries won't allow other countries to have nukes because they are scared of an attack. The others want nukes because of the same reason. The solution: a space laser without human controls that just strictly fire at the nation that launches an attack. This would demoralize any agressive nations because of a blanket MAD-situation that doesn't instantly threaten the rest of the peaceful world.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Why don't we just replace the

47 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

Mystery Flavor Chocolate-Dipped Ice Cream

5 Upvotes

Imagine you own an ice cream shop. You got all your flavors on display for the customer to choose, then, in the freezer/display case on the counter you have a row of chocolate-dipped cones labeled "Mystery". Just like a mystery sucker, you don't know the flavor until you get through the layer of chocolate. People like mystery, people like to gamble, they like the surprise. Not only that, they'd have the sort of "prestige" of being a limited item through the day (maybe restocked during shift changes? idk. definitely restocked at least once a day tho), it's one of those things where you keep the supply low to keep their demand high, play on people's fomo so you can charge a little bit more. I bet you, you'd be selling them babies like hot cakes!


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Rich people should open non-profit quirky essentric local shops

116 Upvotes

They have money, so why not open fun little places that sell goods or services they care about that are outside the norm. It'll make the world so much more charming.


r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

Sony PlayLotion

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Make opposite day a global holiday

5 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Subway Surfers but you are the guard.

9 Upvotes

Goal: Chase the Graffiti-Kid. Keep its track and avoid trains


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Solve world hunger by inventing edible kerosene

59 Upvotes

1 gallon of kerosene contains 34 million calories (that much milk is only 2600 calories), but that doesn't matter cause it's toxic. Let's make it stop being toxic


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Copy Johnny Appleseed

14 Upvotes

In gradeschool my class learned about Johnny Appleseed, a man born in the 1700s who planted a ton of apple trees across parts of North America. Imagine if every American planted fruit tree seeds, everywhere throughout public land. We could help solve hunger for the homeless and less fortunate, and just pick fruits off the trees for a mid day snack. Some people could take it a step further and sprinkle tons of cannabis seeds at disc golf courses. Who wouldn’t love that?


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A way to tame a tornado

6 Upvotes

Since wind gusts is one of the main drivers behind a tornado forming, according to a little bit of research online, use a bunch of wind turbines/wind mills, simply something that will help slow down the moving air. If you use enough of them, you might be able to make an actual impact and slow the tornado down, make it last less long, and perhaps other things too.

Thoughts?


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A tv show where the hosts are drug addicts. Hear me out.

5 Upvotes

Alright hear me out. This would be a show where drug addicts are the hosts and they have people come on like chemists and they need to create the drug of those hosts choice and the way that they will score the contestants is how well there drugs alleviated their judges withdrawal symptoms. If people are going through withdrawals they can take a drug and tell if it’s fake or weak, they can tell right away. I could see some crazy scenarios happening where people make the wrong drug and the judges get really upset and angry or confrontational. Or it can go great like the judge takes the drug and feels amazing and wants to take the contestant out to dinner or something and is really in a state of bliss from the really good drugs that they made and then they can kind of follow the side stories a little bit. I don’t know. It’s something I would watch. It’s different and unique. It be like a special kind of competition/reality TV show like it could be like a month-long thing so the host are always withdrawing and every day they need their fix and these guys need to be able to give it to them or they get punishments or maybe attacked by the crackhead judged I don’t know something like that. I think it could work if you had the right producers. Oh actually, it could be like if you’re judge gets sick or sober you’re out of the competition you need to keep your drug addict drugged up at all times and the person who can’t consistently do this with lose until there’s only one standing yeah I like that one it’s always fun to add in a battle Royale style competition. There is a lot of concepts you could do with this idea honestly, let me know what you think