Wackiest Warning Label Selected (Label On Heat Gun)

[matcom]

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NOVI, Mich. -- And the winner is: 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."

That's the winner of the ninth annual Wacky Warning Label Contest conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, the consumer watchdog group known as M-LAW. The idea behind the contest is to show how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products.

M-Law president Robert Dorigo Jones called warning labels "a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times." He said judges who allow anyone to file a lawsuit on almost any theory have created a need for product makers to plaster warnings on everything.

Jones said when judges start dismissing cases rooted in frivolous theories, "We'll see fewer wacky labels and more fairness in the courts."

http://www.wftv.com/money/5882517/detail.html

[mikeytherat]

1. Well, many of them DO look like hair dryers...

Big, heavy, metal hairdryers with heavy-duty cords and multiple, bright warning labels, but hairdryers nonetheless. Still, that's no defense, 'cuz the sheer heft of the "hairdryer" should give one pause.

I'd much prefer the label said "Do not use as a blender" or "Do not use to extinguish fire", so I could contemplate which Homer Simpson out there prompted this warning label, and imagine what it must have looked like.

mikey_the_rat

[Deja Q]

2. Hmmm. Tools as hairdryers. I think I can sue them for public lewdity...

I feel so dirty! So... so... violated by that gross label being out for children to see everywhere!