Dumb warning labels

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  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
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  • CarolynB38
    CarolynB38 Posts: 553 Member
    As I got onto the motorway one day there was a sign that said "sign not in use".
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    dumb-warning-labels-and-signs03.jpg

    :sick:
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I think the worst are TV commercials that say "professional driver, closed course" for the lamest things.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,455 Member
    smantha32.....um ......ouch.....:noway:
  • Ezzie
    Ezzie Posts: 665 Member
    On Ambien (sleeping pill), caution may cause drowsiness....:huh: ZzzzzzZzzzzz
    Really???
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    smantha32.....um ......ouch.....:noway:

    I know, right?

    But the scary part is that it's probably on there because some moron tried it.
  • Allison22451
    Allison22451 Posts: 686 Member
    This WARNING was on the water cooler in the Drs office waiting room.
    watercooler.jpg
    :noway:

    I have to share this with my daughter. She is a nurse in a dr office:laugh:
    im a nurse too.
    she'll appreciate it.
    i asked, "is this REALLY such a huge problem that you had to post this??" the staff cringed and uniformly said, "yes" "youd be surprised.". lol
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    On Ambien (sleeping pill), caution may cause drowsiness....:huh: ZzzzzzZzzzzz
    Really???

    WAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's too funny.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    This WARNING was on the water cooler in the Drs office waiting room.
    watercooler.jpg
    :noway:

    I have to share this with my daughter. She is a nurse in a dr office:laugh:

    i asked, "is this REALLY such a huge problem that you had to post this??" the staff cringed and uniformly said, "yes" "youd be surprised.". lol


    ok.. eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww! :noway:
  • Aello11
    Aello11 Posts: 312 Member
    One of those campling toilet seats that you can attach to the bumper of a truck......

    label says "Caution, do not use while driving"

    I have this image of the Beverly Hillbillies in my head now. :happy:
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    I saw a stove that said: "Don't use open flame to search for leaks."

    ...
  • Jaulen
    Jaulen Posts: 468 Member
    in college I worked at a kitchen store, and we were selling those antimicrobial cutting boards (popular item in the late 1990's early 2000's with the germ fears antimicrobial everything)....

    The manufacturer had to start putting warning labels on the cutting boards saying something to the effect of "These items must be washed" people weren't washing the cutting boards and were getting sick.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    in college I worked at a kitchen store, and we were selling those antimicrobial cutting boards (popular item in the late 1990's early 2000's with the germ fears antimicrobial everything)....

    The manufacturer had to start putting warning labels on the cutting boards saying something to the effect of "These items must be washed" people weren't washing the cutting boards and were getting sick.

    ... I am seriously worried for the world.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member


    ... I am seriously worried for the world.

    Like someone else said.. they should leave off the warnings and let these idiots take themselves out of the gene pool.
  • CudyBug
    CudyBug Posts: 742 Member
    I saw a stove that said: "Don't use open flame to search for leaks."

    ...

    OMG That is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • miriamwithcats
    miriamwithcats Posts: 1,120 Member
    arewethereyet wrote:
    I acted quickly and removed his clothes immediately so he'd stop cooking.

    I agree you did the right thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people would now be scared to do that with another person's child.

    Oh then too! It was instinct but I shook for an hour afterwards. Also, note I left without leaving my name. :wink:

    I bet you would have done the same thing:love:

    Most states actually have what are called "Good Samaritan Laws" that protect individuals who try to help in emergencies. As long as you don't do something like a tracheotomy when you are not a doctor, you do have SOME protection. Until the damn lawyers get involved.
  • mfp_1
    mfp_1 Posts: 516 Member
    miriamwithcat wrote:

    Most states actually have what are called "Good Samaritan Laws"

    When you say 'states' do you mean 'member states of United Nations'?
  • viper_7
    viper_7 Posts: 14
    All these warnings came about due to the abundant USA appetite to sue all and sundry.... as it's always "someone else's fault"
    The Lawyers lap it up.. and make the problem worse.

    I recall the incident with a Camper van style vehicle, where the driver, put it on auto drive and then went in the back to make a drink.

    Next minute he/she had crashed.

    Successfully sued the vehicle manufacture for not having a warning that "auto" didn't mean fully automatic drive itself.
    Vehicle maintenance manual was amended to add such a warning!
  • mfp_1
    mfp_1 Posts: 516 Member
    viper_7 wrote:
    I recall the incident with a Camper van style vehicle, where the driver, put it on auto drive and then went in the back to make a drink.

    Meets the criteria of urban legend. See what Snopes says about it:
    http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    ...my dad (aaages ago) worked at a place and a woman tried to return the microwave oven because it killed her dog.


    I heard that story too. Then I found Snopes lists it as an urban legend:
    http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp

    I'm sure all of the stories are not made up, even if you see something on snopes. When I was a kid, my mom was babysitting two of my cousins. They were terrorizing a kitten (they were really bad kids) and my mom walked in the house just as they were putting it in the microwave. Thankfully she walked in when she did.



    Also:
    Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover." -- On a pair of shin guards made for bicyclists
  • mfp_1
    mfp_1 Posts: 516 Member
    katy84o wrote:

    I'm sure all of the stories are not made up, even if you see something on snopes. When I was a kid, my mom was babysitting two of my cousins. They were terrorizing a kitten (they were really bad kids) and my mom walked in the house just as they were putting it in the microwave.

    The Snopes link addressed that specific point:
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    "Although there have been a few verifiable cases of pets subjected to microwaving, each of them were deliberate acts of cruelty, perpetrated by twisted souls who knew all too well what they were doing. Micropoochings arising from a lack of understanding of the technology, however, are still incidents of lore
    only."
    ****************


    Urban legends can be true or false. False ones rely on 'capability to be true'. True ones don't have to, of course.
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    http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/urban_legends.htm
    Urban legends are popular stories alleged to be true and passed from individual to individual via oral or written (e.g. forwarded email) communication. Typically, said stories concern outlandish, humiliating, humorous, terrifying, or supernatural events — events which, in the telling, always seem to happen to someone other than the teller.
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  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    any type of coffee cup that has to say caution may be hot .... damn people and there crazy lawsuits for spilling coffee on themselves cause they where driving, texting and holding coffee all at the same time

    That started with an elderly lady in a McDonald. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

    The fact she had over $10 k in med bills in 1994 makes me wonder how hot it was.

    It made for some great Seinfeld episodes :tongue:


    The woman had incredibly bad burns and had to have skin grafts. She was in the hospital for a long time. The coffee was WAY WAY WAY too hot...Its used as the classic example of the frivolous lawsuit but that's just because McDonald's won the PR war with the case. They were wrong.

    I watched a great documentary about this case, and others, called Hot Coffee, highly recommended.....from what I remember, that McDonald's had also been warned several times that their coffee was WAY too hot....

    http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
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    This tells me some idiot tried to use those as sounds, WOW
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    My favorite was I bought a blow dryer that said

    Do not use while showering or sleeping....


    Really? I can't wash my hair and dry it at the same time? And if I resist that, I can't even just dry it for EIGHT HOURS while I am sleeping? Man, that sucks!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    arewethereyet wrote:
    I acted quickly and removed his clothes immediately so he'd stop cooking.

    I agree you did the right thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people would now be scared to do that with another person's child.

    Oh then too! It was instinct but I shook for an hour afterwards. Also, note I left without leaving my name. :wink:

    I bet you would have done the same thing:love:

    Most states actually have what are called "Good Samaritan Laws" that protect individuals who try to help in emergencies. As long as you don't do something like a tracheotomy when you are not a doctor, you do have SOME protection. Until the damn lawyers get involved.

    What if you do a tracheotomy and it saves the person's life? :happy:
  • n2thenight24
    n2thenight24 Posts: 1,651 Member
    I can explain the not using the hair dryer while sleeping one. My very own mother is responsible for this one. We were very poor when I was younger. Not because of a recession or anything, but because she was a drug addict, and all the money went for that. But anyway, she came home one night, and we didn't have any electricity in the house, and it was very cold. But thankfully, our neighbors let us run a single extension cord from their house. Well, my mom took the extension cord, plugged a hair dryer into it, and stuck the hair dryer under her blanket and went to sleep. She was so F***ed up, that it didn't even wake her as the hair dryer burnt a whole into her leg, nearly to the bone. And did my mom sue? Oh yes, yes she did. She loves to sue people. I think she got something like $10,000 for that little fiasco.
  • mmckee10
    mmckee10 Posts: 405 Member
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    omg this haha
  • MrsWilsoncroft
    MrsWilsoncroft Posts: 968 Member
    Lol!

    Love some of the posts.

    I love how toiletries say do not eat etc
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    arewethereyet wrote:
    I acted quickly and removed his clothes immediately so he'd stop cooking.

    I agree you did the right thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people would now be scared to do that with another person's child.

    Oh then too! It was instinct but I shook for an hour afterwards. Also, note I left without leaving my name. :wink:

    I bet you would have done the same thing:love:

    Most states actually have what are called "Good Samaritan Laws" that protect individuals who try to help in emergencies. As long as you don't do something like a tracheotomy when you are not a doctor, you do have SOME protection. Until the damn lawyers get involved.

    What if you do a tracheotomy and it saves the person's life? :happy:

    Well if it is MY life, or that of my child, your warning label would be "Watch out for that lady behind me she will KICK YOUR AZZ if you try to hurt me" Then I would follow you around looking like this:love:

    :laugh:

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