Originally Posted By FerretAfros I think the labels that manufacturers put on products are rediculous. While packing up Christmas decorations in a plastic box, the lid had a sticker on the bottom. It had a red slash-y thing over a picture of a small child sitting in the box with the lid closing, and said "Suffocation Hazard" on it. How dumb can people be? Who in their right mind would put a child in one of those and close it? And who, that wasn't in their right mind, would read the sticker? It is just a waste. And the warnings on hairdryers too. Who would use it in a bathtub? The point of a bathtub is to make you wet, while the point of a hair dryer is to make you dry. That makes no sense at all. How long is it going to be before there will be drowning hazard labels on soda cans?
Originally Posted By Kylesmom Yep, you can blame the litigation game on all the silly warning labels. Although I haven't heard about as many outrages settlements as in years past.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I still like the person who sued Krispy Kreme for making them fat. Luckily for all remotely intelligent people in the world, he lost. But there was still that person who got millions from McDonald's for having hot coffee. How can people be that dumb? Really!
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Originally Posted By MissCandice Yeah, I wish people would stop bringing up that McDonalds case. That was actually valid.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I understand that coffee isn't supposed to be scalding and shouldn't burn you, but it's just the idea of sueing for hot coffee that seems odd. I would probably be really angry if I got burnt by hot coffee as well, but I don't think I would sue because of it.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda Actually, if you go to the link and read it, coffee should be brewed at a higher temperature, and held at the temperature that McDonald's sold it at.
Originally Posted By kmsandrbs Did you know that your TV documentation will warn you not to pour liquid into the TV?
Originally Posted By JohnS1 I read in our local paper today that the "Wacky Warning Label Contest" awarded three winners for 2005. Top prize went to a warning that consumers shouldn't use a heat gun that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees ... as a hair dryer! Second prize went to a label on a kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife." Third prize was for a cocktail napkin with a map to the waterways around Hilton Head, SC. Printed on that napkin was the warning: "Not to be used for navigation." I love this stuff.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Yeah, I wish people would stop bringing up that McDonalds case. That was actually valid< And tell me would you put a hot curling iron on your lap, a burning candle ? Please....if it was anyone other than McDonalds it would never have gotten to court -- regardless of temperature of the coffee. I have a lot on insight into this lawsuit and my DW worked for McD corporate at the time...don;t be sold by the poor old lady theme like one jury like Trippy mentions above was... Was she injured -- yes -- that was real. Was it because she used any common sense -- no. If you stick your hair in the flame on your stove, you will be injured -- should you sue GE ?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 So I wish people would stop using the McDonalds case as if they went out of their way to injure someone... The McDonalds case opened the door for everyone to play the little ol me vs the large horrible corporation card - right or wrong. The juries thought process ( oxymoron here) - they can afford it.
