Signs, Warnings, and other labeling fails

I didn't photshop it - it was on the internet.

And esperante, you just said that you're own post sucked :p
 
MylesPrower said:
Anyway, the reason for these obvious product warnings is their ability to act as legal safety nets. We live in an era where everyone's sue-happy. Any loophole found can be exploited.

If I bought a can of bug killer, and it had no warning about human consumption, I could very well drink it and sue the company for my loss of health. Obviously you're not supposed to drink it, but the company didn't tell me not to. U.S. law works in stupid ways sometimes.

I'm sure you guys already knew that, though

...ok now I'm just talking welp
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That's true. My brother once read the PS3 manual alloud and it said things like:
"Don't step on the device."
"Don't burn the device."
Etc.
For a moment I was like: "Wut 0.o?", but then I realised it's about the legal issues.
I can totaly imagine a situation where someone steps on his PS3, sues Sony for it and then buys a house on the Bahamas with his loads of cash.
 
Zenith said:
On my toaster oven: "If contents ignite, keep door closed and unplug device"
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Wait. What do you do then? Just let it burn out?
 
MylesPrower said:
I feel as if your motive for posting in many threads is to disapprove of other posts and drive them into the ground. You don't always have to pound so hard against the grain, you know. Sometimes I appreciate your work, but this does get kind of old.

...yeah bad photoshop and stuff

Anyway, the reason for these obvious product warnings is their ability to act as legal safety nets. We live in an era where everyone's sue-happy. Any loophole found can be exploited.

If I bought a can of bug killer, and it had no warning about human consumption, I could very well drink it and sue the company for my loss of health. Obviously you're not supposed to drink it, but the company didn't tell me not to. U.S. law works in stupid ways sometimes.

I'm sure you guys already knew that, though

...ok now I'm just talking welp
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i just have a problem with people (not only here, for sure) talk about how things (warning labels in this instance) "fail" when in fact they are ignorant of the point that is trying to be put across. you are completely right with your bug spray example.

i never, ever bash strictly for the sake of bashing, sir; my opinion just happens to so very often go against the grain of what is being discussed here (be it tcg related or something in misc). i can appreciate criticism like this that doesn't have a "well couldn't you try being nice for once???" vibe to it.
 
once my dad was working at a ladder company, and his company got sued because some stupid kid who worked on a farm put the ladder in a pile of dung to make sure it didnt slide. the dung got hot and and the kid was on the ladder. he fell off the ladder and broke his arm, so then they had to put "do not prop ladder in hot dung"
 
On the bottle of some kind of glue "this glue is temporarily permanent"
 
Toyota: Moving you forward even if you don't want it to.

Today we we're driving passed this parked bus and these guys were selling watermelons on it and half of the bus was chain linked fence and the back door for the bus was a chain linked gate rofl
 
While visiting my granmother for x-mas

"Welcome to Dink's Ice Cream! We serve Ho made Ice Cream!"
The "m" in Homade was missing.
 
The Japanese Wii Instruction Manual makes me laugh:
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Ah, Japanese. You so crazy!
 
Lawl, that guy is pouring Gatorade on his Wii. Now that's G! And where it shows someone putting a 4-leaf clover in the fan, I get it, but it doesn't look serious.
 
I have seen someone thwack someone else in the face with a wiimote, good time's, good time's. my old keyboard had a warning label saying not to throw it because it my cause laceration's, o.o. cya
 
I remember a few years back I read a headache medicine bottle saying 'May cause Headaches' That one still makes me wonder ;]
 
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