Sunscreen wants to destroy all of your stuff, you

Ahahaha. You thought sunscreen was a good thing. Idiot.

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There was a simpler time — i.e., earlier this morning — when we were still naive enough as a species to believe that sunscreen was a good thing to put on our bodies because it prevents us from getting melanoma and dying. Well, according to WSB-TV, a brave Cobb County woman has come forward to reveal just how wrong we were about the deceptively insidious stuff ...
A Cobb County woman has a warning after trying to protect her skin cost her an electronic book reader.

Jodi Brookfield said the chemicals in her spray sunscreen damaged her Nook e-reader.
She said she used the spray on her vacation but later realized it ate away at the device, right where she picked it up.

NOT THE NOOK. Let cancer eat away my flesh, but DEAR GOD, spare the Nook. Could this mean we have to start reading actual books and magazines at the pool? Let me just saddle up my dinosaur while I’m at it.

Seriously, though. If sunscreen can eat away the plastic on the back of an electronic device, what can it do to your skin? Tune in later to find out how unsafe you are no thanks to the things that are trying to save you ... Watch Channel 2 Action News at 4 to find out what experts also had to say about the effects of sunscreen on skin.