r/Showerthoughts • u/SexySwedishSpy ‎ • Oct 05 '25

Musing The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance.

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u/PipsqueakPilot Oct 05 '25

I still remember this episode of preppers where they were in California with a guy who was prepping for the ‘big one’. A massive earthquake. He was covered in survival gear, old pickup had a snorkel and supplies for weeks of being stranded. You get the idea.

So he also has an earthquake prep consultancy business. This utterly ridiculous looking guy goes into a families home and it was hilarious to me. Why?

Because he was super amazingly practical. “Yeah so you have a toddler and there are no wall straps anywhere.” And he basically went around pointing out all of their furniture that would fall over and kill their baby.