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OREM — It seems like every child goes through a destructive phase growing up, perhaps giving birth to the exasperated phrase, "This is why we can't have nice things."
You can't really blame children, as breaking things on occasion and making giant messes is inevitable when curious little minds are learning about the world around them. Yes, likely most of the time little ones don't mean to break things, but everyone has known a child who breaks things on purpose when they're in tantrum mode.
Orem company FiberFix is sympathetic the plight of broken house goods, and they made a funny commercial to prove it. The ad follows one particularly destructive boy as he tears through his home, breaking various items that you would normally throw away once broken.
BYU student invents product '100 times stronger' than duct tape
A BYU student is getting a lot of attention for his new product that came on the market earlier this year. He claims the product can permanently fix all kinds of things whether they are wood, metal or plastic — and it is flying off of store shelves.Instead, dad goes to the garage to patch everything up with FiberFix, a tape that is "100 times stronger" than duct tape. Amidst his repairs, dad gets an idea, an awful idea, an awful, wonderful idea. This fictionally exasperated dad makes a piñata out of the hard-to-destruct tape, then watches with satisfaction as his son finally encounters something he can't break.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
To learn more about Fiber Fix, a company started by a BYU student in 2013, visit their website. If you want to build a tough-as-nails piñata, FiberFix also released a how-to video.
