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posted November 03, 2007 11:32 AM |
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Weird Warning Labels
Ok we all know the warning labels in America was out of control years ago. Still it seems to get a bit weirder every day.
For instance I bought some peanuts. The warning said "This item is packaged in the same area as peanuts, cashews, and other nuts."
Hmm peanuts that are packaged in the same area as other peanuts. Wow, who would have thought??!
Found on a bag of a certain 'real cheese' snack that will go unanmed. "This product is proccessed in an area that contains milk." Not to mention that it mentioned it had cheese in it. Hmm milk and cheese connected? Never would have known.
Of course there is my alltime favorite. Hot Chocolate with the warning : Caution contents may be hot. No? Really? I thought it would be freezing!
A hamper with a one of those symbols on it : Has a huge red circle with a line through it, and a picture of an infant in the hamper. The second one has the same red circle with a line through it, but the hamper being closed on said infant. Caption : Caution do not close the lid when a child is in the hamper, or let children play in the hamper. Honestly. No lie.
Seen a microwave with the circle with line and a dog in the microwave. DUH.
Where and how do they come up with this stuff? I can just picture somebody trying to dry their dog's hair in the microwave.
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posted November 03, 2007 12:14 PM |
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They come up with this stuff because someone realizes they can make a buck when they spill their coffee on themselves or put their cat in the microwave.
Only in America.
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posted November 03, 2007 12:18 PM |
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Ain't it the truth *sighs*. Think there is the lawyer potential client is up to like 1:1 now. Honestly think that silly people should not profit for their own inneptitude.
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posted November 07, 2007 05:20 AM |
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YAY America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are just setting ourselves up to be laughed at. lol
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posted November 07, 2007 07:02 AM |
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We're way past that point I think. Lets see if I can cover all the bases.
Somebody, just because they are born able to throw a 100 mph fastball makes more in a day then somebody who risks their lives regularly (Fire Fighters, Police, ect) makes in a year. In some cases more then they make in their whole life.
We are so Politically Correct that if we sneeze in somebody's direction I am suprised they don't put us in a fireing squad.
Won't even go into the whole sexual repression bit, even though America is also one of the biggest porn makers there is. (Contridiction anybody?)
Billionaires like Buffett pay 18% in taxes do to tax law problems, while people who make a fraction of what he does pays 35%. Not to mention he can probably pay less then wholesale if he wants for just about anything. (And were not talking about perks businesses will give just to get him to do business with them).
That's just the tip of the iceberg though. Add to all that the fact that if a person slips in a store they can get millions even if it is their own fault. So, anybody who lives in America seen any other absolutely crazy warning labels?
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posted November 07, 2007 08:38 AM |
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Ohh Ohhh
I saw one near me the other day. It seems the whole western world is going this way  I was like no no not here, must be for the Yankie tourists
This is one of the free gas BBQs in a park by the water.
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posted November 07, 2007 09:21 AM |
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It's all Ralph Nader's fault, he started it.
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posted November 07, 2007 09:25 AM |
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Some grocery stores have large crates the contain honey. I've seen many with warning labels that say, "Danger do not open, bees will escape." I've opened quite a few of them and never seen any action.
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posted November 07, 2007 09:43 AM |
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One of my favorites are the microwavable meal warnings. Caution, contents will be hot after cooking.
There is a dog training place near where I live. Warning sign right above the sign that advertises what they do (Ie train dogs). Warning, Dogs on Premises. To the left (same general area, only lower) Beware of Dogs. To the right (about same height as one on left) No felines allowed (My I wonder why?!).
Seen in the local wal-mart. When floor has been waxed, floor will be slippery. (Mind you this is a permanent sign, they put out smaller signs when they mop or wax).
Seen on a hairdryer. Caution: Do not use near or around the bathtub when plugged in. (This is besides the usual electricity warning most electrical devices has).
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posted November 07, 2007 09:59 AM |
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Seen on a hairdryer. Caution: Do not use near or around the bathtub when plugged in
Surprisingly, there are a LOT of people who do this.
There used to be a thing on the radio where they reported stupid lawsuits. I remember a couple bad were:
A man got hit by a car while riding his bicycle at night. The bike had a headlight, but he didn't have it turned on. He sued (and won) the bicycle company for not telling him to turn on the light.
A woman was playing golf. She was pretty bad at golf and hit the ball completely off the golf course. It hit a railroad track, bounced off of it and came back and hit her in the head. So she sued the golf course. (don't know if she won)
There was a man walking along and he saw a blind man with a seeing eye dog. He was curious how good the dogs were so he tested it. Just before the man/dog got there, he stuck his foot out to see if the dog would stop the man. The blind man stepped on his foot and did some damage. So he sued. In this case people had some common sense. The man who sued was the local preacher in a small town. His congregation got so upset about this they forced the man to drop the lawsuit.
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posted November 07, 2007 10:32 AM |
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So is it OK to keep dull knives in your children?
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posted November 07, 2007 04:52 PM |
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LOL Bini, now all the dull knife makers have to go and make new lables so that people know to keep them out of children
Its gotten pretty funny how bad the lables have become though. I remember a while ago when I was having a lot of trouble with insomnia, I bought some over the counter sleep aids that warned "may cause drowsiness". I had kind of thought that was the whole point, but I'm glad they took the time to let me know 
I think in the US they need to pass some sort of law to stop those frivolous lawsuits, it amazes me that people can get away with the things they do. How do you make money off of spilling coffee on yourself? Its insanity...
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posted November 08, 2007 01:09 AM |
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As heinous as the McDonald's case sounds, it actually has some logical thinking behind it. First of all, the victim was nearly 80 years old if I recall correctly. The coffee she spilt caused 3rd degree burns which means it had to have been at least 185 degrees fahrenheit (water boils at 212F for you forgeigners). The industry standard temperature is usually around 120 degrees. She spilt the coffee on her crouch, so you can imagine the pain. She spent over a week in the hospital and apparently was disabled for several months. Also, this wasn't the first time a lawsuit like this was filed, but the other people settled for about $30,000 . Also, throughout the 80's there were hundreds of reports of McDonalds' coffee burning people. The jury decided that the woman was 20% responsible for the incident. The jury decided to award the woman $2.7 million in Punitive damages (to punish and deter McDonalds for hot coffee), but the judge reduced that claim to $480,000. She also received an additional $160,000 to help pay for medical bills, and her pain ( ).
Now all the companies just put on very thorough warning labels instead of actually making their products safer.
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posted November 08, 2007 01:12 AM |
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posted November 14, 2007 03:24 PM |
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A man got hit by a car while riding his bicycle at night. The bike had a headlight, but he didn't have it turned on. He sued (and won) the bicycle company for not telling him to turn on the light.
A woman was playing golf. She was pretty bad at golf and hit the ball completely off the golf course. It hit a railroad track, bounced off of it and came back and hit her in the head. So she sued the golf course. (don't know if she won)
It's things like that that make me wonder wether such people deserve to breed I mean the juries, for accepting such retarded lawsuits. "Oh so you're stupid and didn't know the light had to be turned on? No problem, we'll award you some millions, just because you're stupid!"
Eh? Rewarding people for being stupid?
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As heinous as the McDonald's case sounds, it actually has some logical thinking behind it. First of all, the victim was nearly 80 years old if I recall correctly. The coffee she spilt caused 3rd degree burns which means it had to have been at least 185 degrees fahrenheit (water boils at 212F for you forgeigners). The industry standard temperature is usually around 120 degrees. She spilt the coffee on her crouch, so you can imagine the pain. She spent over a week in the hospital and apparently was disabled for several months. Also, this wasn't the first time a lawsuit like this was filed, but the other people settled for about $30,000 . Also, throughout the 80's there were hundreds of reports of McDonalds' coffee burning people. The jury decided that the woman was 20% responsible for the incident. The jury decided to award the woman $2.7 million in Punitive damages (to punish and deter McDonalds for hot coffee), but the judge reduced that claim to $480,000. She also received an additional $160,000 to help pay for medical bills, and her pain ().
Now all the companies just put on very thorough warning labels instead of actually making their products safer.
You can substain damage anywhere. You can trip across your son's mini-bycicle and break your leg. You don't sue the mini-bycicle company for that! This story is nothing different. Unfortunate accident, but her own fault for spilling. She can't expect half-warm coffee to be served.
What happened to common sense?
I remember this story about an actual JUDGE who went to sue a laundry-thing for having lost his pants some 40+ years ago. Now he wants a few millions due to interest for all those years. As a result, the Laundry-thing (I REALLY don't know the word...) went out of business, just because they couldn't afford the lawyers I believe. Thanks Mr. Judge!
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posted November 14, 2007 04:20 PM |
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Somebody, just because they are born able to throw a 100 mph fastball makes more in a day then somebody who risks their lives regularly (Fire Fighters, Police, ect) makes in a year. In some cases more then they make in their whole life.
That's the fault of the supporters!
If they wouldn't buy all the baseball caps, shirts, balls, gloves and wouldn't pay much money for a ticket in the stadium or for being able to watch it on pay-tv, the clubs wouldn't have that much money to pay those stars. The more people are interested in something, the more expensive it will become.
If all the people, who buy a baseball cap and a baseball glove would go to their next fire fighters house or police station and buy a shirt there too, those guys would earn much more money a month.
Or let them create an own tv channel and millions of people watch it daily...many comercials could be placed....much money would come...
It is as easy as this...
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posted November 17, 2007 06:42 PM |
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If you people had a proper welfare system, like us civilized countries, so that people wouldn't need to go to court to get money for their hospital bills -- or if everyone's basic hospital needs were covered through your tax bills -- you wouldn't have these kinds of problems.
Speaking of comparisons between countries like this... I heard a story once, about a Norwegian who'd owned a shop in the States. For one reason or other (yeah, I know stories are much better when they've got better details, but I'm not much of a storyteller) he got sued by an American for some nonsense just before he moved back to Norway. So the aggrieved part and his or her lawyers conveyed the lawsuit to the Norwegian ministry of law, with a request that they help them prosecute the Norwegian former shop owner.
There are rumours the Norwegian lawyers laughed as they threw the request in the bin.
(By the way, this is one of the stories my mates and I like to recount every time we want to wallow in our status as citizens of the best country in the world.)
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posted November 18, 2007 02:43 AM |
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There was this woman who was playing golf, and when she hit the ball it bounced off a railway line and hit her in the head. She sued the golf course.
Or a man who was riding his bike at night, the bike had lights but they weren't turned on, and he got hit by a car. He sued the bike company for not telling him to turn them on.
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posted November 18, 2007 02:49 AM |
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A quick google search
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of
her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation had caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle.
The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the R.V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new motor home.
The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons buying their recreation vehicles.
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