Michigan anti-lawsuit group gives out "awards" for wackiest warning labels on products.
January 6, 2005: 10:27 AM EST
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A toilet brush with a tag that says "Do not use for personal hygiene" has taken top prize for the wackiest consumer warning label of the year, according to an anti-lawsuit group.
The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, whose main mission is to reveal how lawsuits and anxiety over lawsuits have created a need for overly obvious warnings on products, sponsors The Wacky Warning Label Contest each year.
Other top finishers this year include:
-- A scooter with the warning "This product moves when used."
-- A digital thermometer with the advice "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."
-- An electric blender used for chopping and dicing that reminds users to "Never remove food or other items from the blades while the product is operating."
-- And a three-inch bag of air used for packaging that read "Do not use this product as a toy, pillow, or flotation device."
"Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," said Robert B. Dorigo Jones, M-LAW president. "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."
The group hopes the contest will remind us all to read the warnings on our products more carefully and motivate judges to stop what it says are frivolous lawsuits.
The winning labels were chosen by listeners of a popular morning radio show in Detroit, the group said.
Toilet brush wins wacky bowl
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It's become so bad, that recently I got something, can't rmember what, but the owners manual was 50% warning labels. It turned an otherwise 10 page document into this 20 page red label.
Oh, and just for kicks, I read through a manual (online) for a handgun once. No shit, on almost every page was a simple warning that if you pulled the trigger, the gun would go off. Sometimes that same warning was repeated two and even three times on each page.
I guess most people don't understand the -function- of a handgun???
Oh, and just for kicks, I read through a manual (online) for a handgun once. No shit, on almost every page was a simple warning that if you pulled the trigger, the gun would go off. Sometimes that same warning was repeated two and even three times on each page.
I guess most people don't understand the -function- of a handgun???
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You hear about the guy sueing Fear Factor cause he ralphed watching it one night? They made the contestant eat dead rats. That guy should not only have his lawsuit thrown out, but he should be forced to dontate any and all televisions sets he has to a shelter or something as he obviously doesn't know how to change the channel when something comes on he shouldn't watch.
Anyone watch Fear Factor and doesn't know the 2nd stunt is the gross one? So of course you know they are now going to slap warning labels all over that show.
You know, I should sue the makers of Kokanee for not putting a warning on the label that excess consumption may cause vomitting. Yeah, it was a rough post B-day morning. Thank goodness I took the day off.
Anyone watch Fear Factor and doesn't know the 2nd stunt is the gross one? So of course you know they are now going to slap warning labels all over that show.
You know, I should sue the makers of Kokanee for not putting a warning on the label that excess consumption may cause vomitting. Yeah, it was a rough post B-day morning. Thank goodness I took the day off.
