stupid warning labels and disclaimers...

[awayfarer]

How tall and sturdy were they?

If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, well, I think that would still qualify as amusement purposes.

 

[RichCsigs]

My GF and I went and visited her folks this weekend. At one rest stop, there were two pinball machines, each with a warning label that said "For amusement only."

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell else we could have used them for.

My guess? Gambling purposes. Like, "Let's play and the loser has to pay the winner $1 per point he lost by." That's just a guess though.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

For the same reason that "Caution: Hot" is written on the lid of all McDonalds cups of coffee. Because people have tried to sue over it. Apparently stupidity has no limitations.

I also heard that there was a Superman costume that had a warning label on it that said, "Warning: Does not enable user to fly"

Olaf the Stout

 

[Lewis526]

For the same reason that "Caution: Hot" is written on the lid of all McDonalds cups of coffee. Because people have tried to sue over it.

Yeah, some woman made millions when she spilled a cup of superhot McDonalds coffee on herself and suffered 3rd degree burns. Maybe if McDonald's didn't serve their coffee hotter than lava, she wouldn't be a millionaire due to her own clumsiness. I think her winning claim was based not on the fact that the coffee she spilled on herself was hot, but on the fact that it was so blistering hot that she had to go to the hospital and get burn treatment. Were her mouth and tongue supposed to be supernaturally immune to burning?

I truly hate frivolous lawsuits, but I also hate superhot coffee.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I truly hate frivolous lawsuits, but I also hate superhot coffee.

I seriously wish the law never rules in favor of stupidity. I mean what about skalding hot boiling water and genitals suggests to use your crotch as a cup holder, specially when driving over a speed bump or down a parkinglot's driveway?

 

[Steve Jung]

I seriously wish the law never rules in favor of stupidity. I mean what about skalding hot boiling water and genitals suggests to use your crotch as a cup holder, specially when driving over a speed bump or down a parkinglot's driveway?

Except the car wasn't moving when the cup spilled. And McDonald's settled in 700 cases of coffee burns in the decade before. Plus she had asked for $30,000, but McDonald's offered $800. That's when she sued. The woman had third degree burns, from a beverage. Try drinking that.

http://www.reedmorganpc.com/wsj_coffee.htm

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Yeah, some woman made millions when she spilled a cup of superhot McDonalds coffee on herself and suffered 3rd degree burns. Maybe if McDonald's didn't serve their coffee hotter than lava, she wouldn't be a millionaire due to her own clumsiness. I think her winning claim was based not on the fact that the coffee she spilled on herself was hot, but on the fact that it was so blistering hot that she had to go to the hospital and get burn treatment. Were her mouth and tongue supposed to be supernaturally immune to burning?

I truly hate frivolous lawsuits, but I also hate superhot coffee.

Or if she'd been anywhere near intelligent, she'd have KNOWN that coffee is served HOT.

I've had my skin get red from spilled coffee at work but haven't sued them over it...


Disclaimer: At the end of an ad for Lunesta, a sleep aid prescrip drug: may cause drowsiness.

McDonald's bag of peanuts for their sundaes: Caution: may contain nuts.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

McDonald's bag of peanuts for their sundaes: Caution: may contain nuts.

I've seen that on a bag of airline peanuts too. It's a bag of peanuts! I think I'd be a little disappointed if they didn't contain nuts!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Except the car wasn't moving when the cup spilled. And McDonald's settled in 700 cases of coffee burns in the decade before. Plus she had asked for $30,000, but McDonald's offered $800. That's when she sued. The woman had third degree burns, from a beverage. Try drinking that.

http://www.reedmorganpc.com/wsj_coffee.htm

After reading that article, it sounds like McDonald's got what was coming to them. They had multiple opportunities to settle the case beforehand but they thought that they didn't have a case to answer to.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Blackrat]

McDonald's bag of peanuts for their sundaes: Caution: may contain nuts.

Made me remember this: http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1140