Back when I was a child in Detroit the electric company gave out free light bulbs. You kept the burnt out ones in a bag, and when it was full Dad would take it to Detroit Edison and exchange them for free ones. Then some guy who owned a store (I remembered it as a pharmacy) sued because he couldn't sell light bulbs and that was the end of free light bulbs.

The toothbrush mustache. Made famous by people like Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy, ruined forever by Hitler.

Remember the chick that licked all the ice cream in the store? Now we got a bunch of plastic shit to cut through

Your last meal before execution in the U.S. used to be whatever you wanted, until one guy ordered an 18 course feast and didn't touch it. After he was executed a law was passed saying all death row prisoners' last meal would be the same as all the other prisoners.

The kid who jumped off of 7th floor of a building here in Turkey because he thought he was a Pokemon. They stopped airing the show because people thought it was "bad influence" on kids. And Pokemon was huge back when i was a kid so pretty much every kid back then was devastated.

Someone installed an AC incorrectly in their window at my in-laws building. It ended up falling out and killing a 2 year old girl and now everyone is banned from using window AC's (in certain buildings, not all)

The sushi terrorist that licked things on the conveyor belt of Japanese chain Sushiro for clout, making them stop doing the conveyer belt thing. (Tbf, he wasn’t the only one, but the one that comes to mind.)

Pokémon cards at my school. Some Kid lost a battle and (as playground rules dictate) he had to hand over his losing card to the victor. However, this was a particularly rare card that had suffered a surprise loss when his opponent whipped out an even rarer and more powerful Pokémon to battle it. The kid never expected the defeat and had no intention of handing the card over; a fight broke out and teachers got involved. Being this was one of a multitude of Pokémon related fights breaking out at the time, the teachers (at the end of their tether) gave the boy a choice; hand over the card or Pokémon gets banned in the school…. And that’s why my school had no more Pokémon from that moment on.

The guy who stole my Amazon package. I used to have treats outside my door for delivery people but decided to remove all the snacks and the basket they were laid on.

I used to work at the YMCA teaching children from 3-11 swimming lessons. The amount of times the pool closed because someone shit in it or puked and had to be rechlorinated….. guys just don’t use public pools. It’s more sanitary to to get piss drunk in a kiddie pool sitting in warm piss water in your lawn then setting foot in a public pool.

The internet was ruined by whoever it was that invented pop-ups. And video ads, for that matter.

Guys on 9/11 ruined flying honestly. All the security means when u fly u have to get there super early and stand in lines all day.

There was a coffee shop that everyone loved that did the thing where if you buy 8 drinks, you get the next one for free. For 2 years I went there religiously at least once a week. Then one day, they told us that the stamp cards were no longer good because someone had stolen the stamp and had been abusing it by stamping their own cards. I just didn't like the accusatory tone when they explained to us what happened, I felt like I lost something that I made an effort to earn (although only maybe 5/8th of one drink), and they were punishing the loyal customers. It was just terribly handled. I never went back after that. The once bustling coffee shop that everyone loved closed down 6 months later. Basically, they probably killed their business over one person who maybe got a few free drinks at most.

Not sure if its been said but Kanye ruined Kanye for everybody

The Cosby Show. Because of Cosby.

That one fucking kid that swallowed the kinder toy Fuck him