herbicide and a little plastic car

Herbicide makes your pants blow up! Ok, it happened back in the '30s, but it still made people's pants blow up. New Zealanders were using potassium chlorate, which is unstable, to get rid of recently-introduced ragwort, and the dust collected on their clothing. Then, being unstable, there were problems.

Speaking of things that don't work quite like they're supposed to, there's a new electric car on the market, so here's the quote of the day:

"We're trying to be pioneers," Tarazi said. "We're testing the lower limits of what the public wants."