Shooting down birds in buildings
Back in the day, the military would use rifles to shoot down birds that would make their home inside of large aircraft hangars. It was easy, and they were used to shooting things down, it was what they knew. But what’s the problem when you start shooting birds inside of buildings (besides killing animals if you’re from the ASPCA)? That’s right. Soon enough, the roof of a hangar started looking a lot like Swiss cheese, filled with hundreds of holes. All of those holes had to be repaired, creating more work and taking up lots of time and money.
Their “solution” to one problem just created another one. It didn’t actually eliminate the fact that there was a problem, it just changed what the problem was (and in reality, it created more problems because not all of their shots actually hit the birds). The moral of the story: You can’t always use the solution to an old problem, or what you know already, to solve a new one. Instead, it would be worth a little bit of time to think creatively and come up with a real solution that perhaps nobody has thought of before.