the reason for that is because someone sued starbuck when the spilled their coffee and the said it was to hot
Most pointless warning label
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is there some third area that i can go beside inside or outside that i can go toThe Poet said:
Indeed. But sadly, most of these labels are necessary to defend oneself from predatory lawyers and juries of morons. The tipping vending machine label is because of a teenager who, whilst attempting to steal Cokes by shaking the machine, tipped it over on himself, thus crushing himself to death. (He received a Darwin Award which was later rescinded when kinder, gentler management took over, on the grounds that an eighteen year old is too young to understand right and wrong, let alone consequences and gravity. Go figure.) The hairdryer warning is from a case where a woman electrocuted herself while drying her hair standing in a still-wet steel bathtub with the appliance plugged in to a non-GFCI receptacle; the wet hair dryer shorted to her wet hand, and her wet body and wet steel tub with cast iron/galvanized steel plumbing made a perfect ground to complete her circuit.the monopoly guy said:
Holmes Wrecker Company built a large military wrecker during World War II which was later sold for salvage, I think in the 70s. The man who purchased it did not scrap it, but put it back on the road. Since the control cables were not salvageable, he simply extended the winch controls and added a rear-facing seat directly in front of the winches, to manually operate them. When Holmes Wrecker saw it they went ballistic because if a cable snapped (common occurrence), it would likely decapitate him. Duly warned, the man promised in writing to restore the original controls and remove the seat - but didn't. A few years later a snapped cable - not his first snapped cable - did in fact remove his head from his body. His widow sued Holmes and won. She later sold the wrecker, and the next owner was once again operating it sitting in front of the winches, in spite of having signed a written waiver to purchase the wrecker stating that it had decapitated the previous owner and promising to have the original controls restored.
Another guy towed a car in with a tow bar, which suspends the front of the car by the front bumper with the front wheels well off the ground. When he got back to the station he placed the car in "Park", then disconnected the tow bar with the car still elevated. The car did not drop to the ground because the transmission kept it from rolling backward and the back of the wrecker still held it in place by preventing the front from rotating forward and down, even though the tow bar's belts were no longer connected and were hanging down freely. After scratching his head for a few minutes, he lit on the idea of removing the drive shaft, so he crawled under the car and removed the bolts holding the drive shaft to the transmission. Since the drive shaft was still held in place by the yoke, he got a hammer and beat the drive shaft out of the yoke. At that point of course the car was free to roll backward, and did, squashing him like a bug. How do you make a warning label that warns people not to get under the car and disconnect the things keeping the car up?
Those kinds of things are why we have stickers like "DO NOT USE AROUND OPEN FLAME" on a can of aerosol hair spray. Really stupid people leave really wealthy widows/widowers.
on a buttleproof vest, "this product is not designed to protect against the impact of sharp objects", well...i feel safer already.
I had a 6mm airsoft USP that had on the bottom of the trigger guard,
"Warning Made In Taiwan
Refer to owner's Manual"
The other one was an 8lb sledge hammer, that had a warning label, "Warning, this device may be used as a lethal weapon." or something to that effect.
"Warning Made In Taiwan
Refer to owner's Manual"
The other one was an 8lb sledge hammer, that had a warning label, "Warning, this device may be used as a lethal weapon." or something to that effect.
Between inside and outside you can stand on the threshold of your house. Still I can't imagine why usage of lights on the treshold can be harmful.Slim Reaper10 said:
That DVD one is the one that kills me now.
Kid's movies with 'WARNING: Contains prolonged scenes of mild peril'.
If your kid can't handle some 'mild peril' in their entertainment, then buy them a toaster and ignore the 'This is not a bathtime toy' label.
Kid's movies with 'WARNING: Contains prolonged scenes of mild peril'.
If your kid can't handle some 'mild peril' in their entertainment, then buy them a toaster and ignore the 'This is not a bathtime toy' label.
I don't think this really counts as a warning label per se, but...
On a Windows computer: "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue." (If the keyboard is not noticed by the machine, then how will it acknowledge the keystroke?)
On a Windows computer: "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue." (If the keyboard is not noticed by the machine, then how will it acknowledge the keystroke?)
My cousin hurt himself jumping off a table in his brand-new Robin costume thinking that exact thing. Funny to everyone else.Lord Krunk said:
I have a T-shirt that says "Caution: Cape Does Not Enable User to Fly" with one of those black-and-yellow stick-figure warning signs of a falling guy on it.
I work with a large automatic deli slicer, one of those things with the rotating circular blade. You can create quite a gap for slicing things up to an inch or so thick. Between the sharpness and the rotation, you could pass your hand through the machine and it wouldn't even slow down, just make a few "ping" noises as it went through your finger bones. Basically it's a slightly toned-down radial saw mounted in a special housing. It's a very dangerous machine *BUT* this danger is intuitively and inherently obvious to anyone with the sense God gave an earthworm. Nevertheless, there is a decal roughly 12" square on the wall directly behind this machine. Know what it says? "CAUTION: KNIFE WILL CUT." Oh really, ya think??