Great ideas which don't work in reality

[Moonshroom]

Some guy had the bright idea of getting shield bearers in front of riflemen to charge at trenches in World War I. 
You know where this is going: Any shield tough enough to stop a rifle would be too heavy to carry and it would still be useless against artillery and plane strafing. Plus, the flanks would be vulnerable.

Reminds me of the shovel-shield: too heavy as a shield, too short as a shovel... and the "firing hole" drilled into it made it useless as both!

[Kyng]

Some guy had the bright idea of getting shield bearers in front of riflemen to charge at trenches in World War I. 
You know where this is going: Any shield tough enough to stop a rifle would be too heavy to carry and it would still be useless against artillery and plane strafing. Plus, the flanks would be vulnerable.

Reminds me of the shovel-shield: too heavy as a shield, too short as a shovel... and the "firing hole" drilled into it made it useless as both!

So basically, like the futon of military hardware? (In that it tries to do two different things, but isn't very good at either of them )

[Moonshroom]

Some guy had the bright idea of getting shield bearers in front of riflemen to charge at trenches in World War I. 
You know where this is going: Any shield tough enough to stop a rifle would be too heavy to carry and it would still be useless against artillery and plane strafing. Plus, the flanks would be vulnerable.

Reminds me of the shovel-shield: too heavy as a shield, too short as a shovel... and the "firing hole" drilled into it made it useless as both!

So basically, like the futon of military hardware? (In that it tries to do two different things, but isn't very good at either of them )

Yeah, except that it killed people... and NOT the enemy XD

[Kyng]

Reminds me of the shovel-shield: too heavy as a shield, too short as a shovel... and the "firing hole" drilled into it made it useless as both!

So basically, like the futon of military hardware? (In that it tries to do two different things, but isn't very good at either of them )

Yeah, except that it killed people... and NOT the enemy XD

Great, now I'm imagining World War I soldiers trying to use futons as weapons !

[Emerald]

I remember in Rome, Italy, seeing orange trees in a courtyard and fruit stomped into the ground.