None that share that connotation of having gotten messy by messing with something that wasn't yours to mess with in the first place. "Kicking the hornet's nest" is close, but with speedy results instead of the slow, horrifying inevitability involved with the tar baby.
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Date: 2011-12-22 02:25 pm (UTC)