#59: Reverse Effect
In colonial British India, an effort to control the cobra population took an ironic twist. The government, aiming to reduce the number of these dangerous snakes, offered a bounty for every cobra brought in. This policy backfired spectacularly when enterprising locals began breeding cobras specifically to claim the rewards.
Once the British caught on to the ruse and halted the payouts, those who had been farming cobras found themselves with now worthless stock. Their solution? Release the snakes back into the wild. This decision inadvertently led to an increase in the cobra population, the exact opposite of the initiative’s goal.
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