# Bird Box challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622 "2019-01-11T22:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/1 "2019-01-11T22:45:19Z")
I have no idea what the movie is about but the “challenge” is to blindfold yourself and apparently do ordinary things. I guess one of the scenes is about driving a car that way so, yeah, kids are doing that. In the local news someone put on a blindfold while driving their pickup and promptly T-boned a small car. I saw another YouTube video where a young father blindfolds himself and two kids and they hold hands and started running, not walking, through the house. Dad puts his trusting toddler straight into a wall at full speed. It will be a challenge for any participants to make it at all, but I guess that’s the point. “Ooh, it’s a challenge, let’s do it!” Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/2 "2019-01-12T20:26:02Z")
Darwin was a tough, old bastard! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/3 "2019-01-12T21:34:23Z")
Not me. I have enough trouble with 2 working eyes not running into walls. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/4 "2019-01-12T21:49:35Z")
Bird _Brain_ challenge is more accurate, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/5 "2019-01-12T22:11:29Z")
WTF is wrong with people these days? When I was a kid there were movies with people doing dangerous stuff but we knew better than to try to emulate them. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/6 "2019-01-12T22:18:03Z")
In the movie they don’t drive a car blindfolded. They paint the windows and drive very slowly using GPS and proximity sensors. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/7 "2019-01-12T22:19:40Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > WTF is wrong with people these days? When I was a kid there were movies with people doing dangerous stuff but we knew better than to try to emulate them. I don’t know when you were born but there was that movie in the 80s that had to be pulled from theaters and reeditted because of a scene where somebody laid in the middle of the road at night as a test of courage and people kept emulating that scene and dying. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/8 "2019-01-12T22:30:40Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I don’t know when you were born but there was that movie in the 80s that had to be pulled from theaters and reeditted because of a scene where somebody laid in the middle of the road at night as a test of courage and people kept emulating that scene and dying. _The Program_, 1993 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/9 "2019-01-12T22:35:28Z")
What the hell is this movie about, anyway? Spoil the shit out it for me. I won’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/10 "2019-01-13T01:11:16Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What the hell is this movie about, anyway? Spoil the shit out it for me. I won’t see it. Monsters cause people to commit suicide at the mere sight of them, by putting them in a kind of hopeless state of mind, apparently something like “they have now seen the most beautiful thing ever, there’s no point in living anymore, life can’t get any better than this”. To avoid glimpsing them, everyone stays indoors or wears blindfolds. The main plot is of a mother and her two young kids who try to reach a safe haven by travelling down a river blindfolded. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/11 "2019-01-13T05:41:53Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Monsters cause people to commit suicide at the mere sight of them, by putting them in a kind of hopeless state of mind… Oh. A ‘Love story’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/12 "2019-01-13T06:09:25Z")
Sometimes, particularly in Winter, when I get home from work I close the door behind me and don’t turn on the lights. It is interesting trying to do much anything in the dark and I take it really slowly. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/13 "2019-01-13T15:05:04Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > I have no idea what the movie is about but the “challenge” is to blindfold yourself and apparently do ordinary things. I guess one of the scenes is about driving a car that way so, yeah, kids are doing that. In the local news someone put on a blindfold while driving their pickup and promptly T-boned a small car. I saw another YouTube video where a young father blindfolds himself and two kids and they hold hands and started running, not walking, through the house. Dad puts his trusting toddler straight into a wall at full speed. > > It will be a challenge for any participants to make it at all, but I guess that’s the point. “Ooh, it’s a challenge, let’s do it!” > > Dennis This is the society where some people eat Tide pods as a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/14 "2019-01-14T03:15:14Z")
There have always been a handful of stupid people in the world who do stupid things for stupid reasons. All that’s changed nowadays is that now, everyone hears about and talks about those handful of stupid people. Like, do you know how many people took the “Tide pod challenge”? About 70. Out of the entire population of the United States. Yawn. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/15 "2019-01-14T14:16:11Z")
And how many ran their toddlers into a wall? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-box-challenge/827622/17 "2019-01-14T15:18:18Z")
[Some 80 years on, idiots are still swallowing live goldfish](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-goldfish-swallowing-craze-1939-180954429/).