OT/wacky warning labels

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Many of us routinely make the right noises about products not being intended to

cure or even

prevent anything. We have to say that or else...

 

Here is a fun article on warning labels. Enjoy.

 

by James W. Harris

 

Warning: DO NOT Use Your Toilet Brush for Personal Hygiene!

 

A flushable toilet brush that warns users, " Do not use for personal hygiene " has

been identified as the nation's wackiest warning label in an annual contest

sponsored by a consumer watchdog group.

 

The Wacky Warning Label Contest, now in its eighth year, is conducted by

Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW). Its purpose is to publicize how lawsuits,

and concern about lawsuits, have led manufacturers and marketers to go to

extreme, even loony, efforts to try to avoid frivolous lawsuits.

 

M-LAW argues that lawsuit abuse has " many negative effects on families, job

providers and communities. Excessive litigation has robbed consumers of needed

products and services and has added a hidden " lawsuit tax " onto countless other

products and services. "

 

The winners were chosen from literally hundreds of absurd and weird warning

labels submitted by consumers to M-Law. All were from products manufactured in

the United States.

 

* Second place went to a label on a popular scooter for children that warns:

" This product moves when used. "

 

* Third place was this warning on a digital thermometer: " Once used rectally,

the thermometer should not be used orally. "

 

* Fourth place was a label on an electric hand blender promoted for use in

" blending, whipping, chopping and dicing, " that warns: " Never remove food or

other items from the blades while the product is operating. "

 

" Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times, " said Robert B. Dorigo

Jones, M-LAW president. " From the moment we raise our head in the morning off

pillows that bear those famous 'Do Not Remove' warnings, to when we drop back in

bed at night, we are overwhelmed with warnings. Plaintiff's lawyers who file the

lawsuits that prompt these warnings argue they are making us safer, but the

warnings have become so long that few of us read them anymore -- even the ones

we should read.

 

" Hopefully, M-LAW's Wacky Warning Label Contest will motivate everyone to read

their warnings again, and maybe even motivate judges to get tougher on frivolous

lawsuits. "

 

M-LAW describes itself as " a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to

increase public awareness of how the litigation explosion is hurting America.

M-LAW is dedicated to restoring common sense and personal responsibility to the

courts. "

 

(Source: M-LAW:

http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/index.html )

 

 

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