Silly Product Warning
 

Wonder where that came from?

I bought a work light some time ago when I was ordering some other items. I figured "some day" I would need one and put it away. Well "some day" came and I dug it out, and was reading the stuff on the label. It is a wand type flourecent light with a long cord, and uses a long skinny flourecent bulb.

On the cardboard wrap is a list of "warnings". You know, the usual "do not" stuff, but where did the *Do not use to sweep ashes* come from.?

I would have thought "Do not use as a lightsaber" would be more appropriate.

When I worked at Arby's the glass coffee pot had "Do not use as a weapon" printed on the side.

It probily came from some body doing that and sued them for not giving them another one, If id din't have a restriction on how to do it you could do anything with it in some people mind.

Either that or a serious problem with translations. For years my mother had a Christmas decoration that wished people a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hew Year. SHe thought it was funny.

Warnings on products are there to cover the company's butt. Most of them are as a result of some idiot doing something stupid with it, hurting themselves and suing the company. Unfortunately, in this sue-happy time, a lot of these are necessary.

There are entire web sites dedicated to this stuff.

"Do not use if you cannot see clearly to read the information in the information booklet." -- In the information booklet.

"This product not intended for use as a dental drill." -- On an electric rotary tool.

"Do not use near fire, flame, or sparks." -- On an "Aim-n-Flame" fireplace lighter.

"Do not use orally." -- On a toilet bowl cleaning brush.

There was a guy in Iowa working on his barn on a frigid morning. He set his ladder up with one leg propped up by a frozen cow pie. He came back in the afternoon to finish, but the cow pie had thawed and his ladder fell. He sued and won.

With every product we buy, we're paying for stupid.

I have seen fiberglass insulation that says on it , may burn if ignited .

In our chainsaw manual (yes, I actually read manuals) it says "do not stop chain with body parts." Oookaaay. Wonder who needed that warning!?!

A few years ago we bought a large outdoor thermometer. It is round and about the size of a large dinner plate. The warning label on the back read "Not for rectal use."

im from the gove and im here to help

:smack We need a laugh button!

I picked up some haddock and the warning on it said "allergy warning: contains fish"

Well Duh!

I think it's more that the company's are putting the warnings on products to protect themselves. We laugh and shake our heads about this stuff but it's a serious problem to companies who are up to their necks in liability prevention. I"m sure if you talk to the customer service and legal departments of these businesses you will hear stories about why they had to put ridiculous warnings on things.

It does provide for some great entertainment, though...:rolleyes:

:eek: :run:

I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know..........

My sides hurt! I actually hit the floor I laughed so hard!

The neighbor to the guy who's posing for the picture while sitting on the branch he's cutting off. It's the other side, not the one to the right that's starting the saw with the bar between his legs.

Or the lady that bought a motor home, drove it out of the dealership, onto the freeway, set the auto control, got up and went to the back and fixed herself something to eat. It went into the ditch, she sued saying that the instructions did not say she could not leave it. She won. The company put those instructions in ALL of the motor home manuals.

I have been dry-walling on these cold days. So I looked at the 2.5 gallon bucket of drywall paste today, and there is a picture with a warning saying, "drowning hazard". In drywall paste. In a 2.5 gallon bucket.

Guess someone drowned in there before.

I just looked up some more of these and came across this gem. on a rola-hose, product may cause cancer-in california

Saw "this is not a toy" on the bottom of a coffee mug today. Like that is the go to toy in the house.

christmas lights --"for indoor or outdoor use only" uh, where else you gonna put them??

I've always liked, "May be hot when heated."

We've gotten a lot of miles out of that one here at our place. It's the standard admonishment *after* someone burns themselves.

OK, here's mine. In the manual for my heat gun, it melts paint folks, gets up to 600 degrees, it says "do not use to blow dry hair". Now, what kind of dummy caused that one?

That would be for the bucket. Some water + a small child = potential disaster.

Probably the twin sister of the line repair operator at the electronics assembly plant I worked at who tried using the heating element of the soldering iron at her station as a curling iron one rainy day.

In the paperwork which came with an electric meat slicer we bought - - - "Do not use in the shower". Doggone it.......I was ready to send it back....lol.

Yes I know, but the picture, and the fact it is the only dangerous bucket I have is kinda funny.

A fellow called Lefty Jones right before he became Lefty Jones :help::hysterical:

We have a winner!!

I have seen the fiberglass insulation around heat tapes catch fire when the tapes shorted out. A lot of mobile homes catch on fire that way every winter.

1995 Krystof Azninski, Poland