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Laughing At Warning Labels
Category: In Your Face
The Club For Growth points to Wacky Warning Labels: Tort reform, anyone? Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW) has issued its annual list of "Wacky Warning Labels". My favorite was a warning label found on a baking pan that read, "Ovenware will get hot when used in oven."
From the M-LAW site: The contest, now in its ninth year, is conducted by M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products. A heat gun and paint remover that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees and warns users, "Do not use this tool as a hair dryer" has been identified as the nation's wackiest warning label in M-LAW's annual Wacky Warning Label Contest.
Now that the laughter has died down, think about the days when there were virtually no warning labels. Were we better off when parents bought totally unsafe toys for toddlers? Or, when children's furniture was tipping over? Or, when drugs came with no warnings about risks during pregnancy? I prefer to have some apparently unnecessary warnings. We can laugh if we wish, but I may have tried that heat gun as a hair dryer.
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