Dumb warning labels
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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.
There is always someone, huh? My mom fell asleep with a cig when she was drinking. Awoke to heavy black smoke and fire. Thank GOD we all got out safely. The first thing the neighbor said? "You should sue, a couch shouldn't burn so quickly!" My mom said "Haha, we are alive, I don't think so!"0 -
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arewethereyet wrote:
My mom fell asleep with a cig when she was drinking. Awoke to heavy black smoke and fire.
36% of fire deaths are smoking related.
Cigarettes should pay for 36% of emergency service costs.0 -
I dig the one that says "Don't attempt to stop chain with hands" on a chainsaw... =/0
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36% of fire deaths are smoking related.
Cigarettes should pay for 36% of emergency service costs.
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How is it the cigarette's fault if someone catches something on fire with it? Umm duh it is hot and burning, it will catch something on fire. So if someone falls asleep with a cigarette and burns their house down, the cigarette company should pay for the costs? UMM NO. How about wild fires started from idiots who just toss a lit cigarette without putting it out? Should the cigarette company pay for the emergency services to put said fire out?0 -
36% of fire deaths are smoking related.
Cigarettes should pay for 36% of emergency service costs.
How is it the cigarette's fault if someone catches something on fire with it? Umm duh it is hot and burning, it will catch something on fire. So if someone falls asleep with a cigarette and burns their house down, the cigarette company should pay for the costs? UMM NO. How about wild fires started from idiots who just toss a lit cigarette without putting it out? Should the cigarette company pay for the emergency services to put said fire out?
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I think that was sarcasm :laugh:
The fact that on the side of the US cig package it has all these warnings about death,sick babies, fire hazards..ad nauseum is the best evidence we have gone mad with litigation.0 -
At a hotel with full kitchen "do not sit on stove top while hot"
Oh OK, cuz I was going to ask my guest to sit there for dinner!0 -
My macadamia nut butter's label says that it has been packed in a factory that uses nuts.0
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Cadbury's whole-nut, contains traces of nut/not suitable for those with a nut allegy. Ummm really0
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CudyBug wrote:
>How is it the cigarette's fault if someone catches something on fire with it?
It isn't the cigarette's fault, it's the smoker's fault.0 -
At a hotel with full kitchen "do not sit on stove top while hot"
Oh OK, cuz I was going to ask my guest to sit there for dinner!
But it adds flavor!
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I guess the one that won the lawsuit for no warning label...HA!0
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Silica packets -'Do not Eat'
Oh really? Because for a second there I thought a snack came with my new shoes.
once when i worked at Target I was cleaning the shoe department and found a half eaten hot dog in a shoe box. thanks for the present!!Yuumm....:sick:0 -
All rightie... just was reading a recipe for tonights supper and it stated 1)PREHEAT OVEN TO 375 DEGREES, 2) PLACE QUICHE INSIDE OVEN. 3) BAKE Really? My oven doesn't bake what is on the counter?0
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I can't remember which car it is but it is 'flying' and the warning at the bottom of the screen says'Cars do not fly'0
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A warning label only means somebody wrote it. Anything else is speculation.
Maybe somebody did the thing somebody wrote. Maybe they didn't.
Maybe somebody did the thing somebody wrote and won money in court. Maybe they didn't.
Maybe somebody did the thing somebody wrote and won money in court and the new magic words will change the outcome of a court case. Maybe it won't.
Maybe somebody was told to think of all possible warning scenarios and wrote them down. Maybe they weren't told that.0 -
Silica packets -'Do not Eat'
Oh really? Because for a second there I thought a snack came with my new shoes.
once when i worked at Target I was cleaning the shoe department and found a half eaten hot dog in a shoe box. thanks for the present!!Yuumm....:sick:
Working at Zayres as a teen, a lady returned a dress. As I showed her the tag that said KMart, I gently explained she would have to go there. She whined, "But the bus doesn't run there!"
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BUMP: Just 'cuz some night's I cannot fall asleep. AEB the time now....0
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"Do not use for drying pets." -- In the manual for a microwave oven.
Hahahahahah :laugh:
Unfortunately, years ago when microwave ovens first started being sold, people did this with their pets. My uncle worked in the Sears Appliance Repair Dept. and had to clean out one where a lady had put her poodle in to dry it. Horrible.0 -
gkwatra wrote:
My uncle worked in the Sears Appliance Repair Dept. and had to clean out one where a lady had put her poodle in to dry it. Horrible.
It's a frequently told story in a variety of versions. Snopes says it's an urban legend:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp0 -
this one always got me:
we used to buy this puppy shampoo and it said this:
Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish.0 -
Why my husband was in the Marine Corps, they would always give them these long lectures not to do really stupid stuff (don't eat the instant clot powder, for example). These warnings often came with the reminder that they were telling them this, because some Marine, somewhere had actually done it. I think the same holds in the civilian world, if a company bothers to print something on the label, it's because someone probably actually did that, and the company heard about it.
The obvious exception is labeling for common food allergens, they are required to print those, even if the product obviously contains ingredient X.
I believe this is true, both parts, but I am referencing the first. I used to think it was crazy to list some of these warnings, particularly in regards to ingesting odd things like bleach, shampoo, silica, until watching that show "My Strange Addiction". Holy crap, people will eat pretty much anything.
I am one of those people. I have PICA and I eat paper and like to suck on rocks/dirt. I try not to but sometimes I just "have" to.0 -
the boat company my dad works for now has to put warnings not to reverse if someone is swimming behind the boat because someone in America (sorry but you guys seem to have a reputation for suing for everything
) successfully sued the company after reversing over their friend.... boats work like cars if you put it into reverse and someone is behind they will come off worse... !
That's because the dumb *kitten* in the judicial system let them get away with it. Stupid lawsuits would go down dramatically if they would throw them out. But as long as there's a blood sucking lawyer needing to make a buck....
AMEN! We really are a litigious society.
Speaking of which (since all the good warning labels that I remember have already been posted)... there was a lady trying to sue Post cereals because the crunchberries in her Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries weren't actually "berries"... she figured this out after eating the cereal for a few years.... I believe this one did actually get thrown out.0 -
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
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.
If I remember correctly, didn't she stick the coffee cup in between her legs (as opposed to a cup holder) and it melted her pantyhose? Why would anyone want a hot drink between their legs to begin with?0 -
Mine isn't a warning label so much as obvious instructions. I bought a CD case that holds 72 CDs. At the bottom it states "UNIT AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES PORTABLE WHEN CARRIED".0
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"Do not use for drying pets." -- In the manual for a microwave oven.
Hahahahahah :laugh:
Unfortunately, years ago when microwave ovens first started being sold, people did this with their pets. My uncle worked in the Sears Appliance Repair Dept. and had to clean out one where a lady had put her poodle in to dry it. Horrible.
Did your Uncle play "Pull my finger" with you and take you Snipe hunting? Or did he have a friend who woke up in Vegas in a tub full of ice and a missing kidney?0 -
Some of these are so funny. But even funnier than the warnings, I especially liked the PP's comment about the silica packet being a snack sold with her shoes. LOL!0
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I like the packets of salt and pepper that say warning contains salt or warning contains pepper... really?0
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