What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them? - eviltoast

Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

  • Sizzler@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Didn’t own the company just the sole British distribution rights

    edit to add: He lived on the south coast, used and enjoyed the product, and was moving out of the way for a pedestrian on a narrow path and went backwards over the cliff edge. A tragedy that doesn’t belong in this thread.