Warning Against Putting People In Washing Machine

[Coinwash]

Here's a little HA ha ;) sent to me...

WARNING AGAINST PUTTING PEOPLE IN WASHING MACHINE WINS TOP PRIZE IN M-LAW's TENTH ANNUAL WACKY WARNING LABEL CONTEST

http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/


A warning label on a washing machine at a laundromat that warns, “Do not put any person in this washer” has been chosen as the nation’s wackiest warning label in M-LAW’s annual Wacky Warning Label Contest.

The contest, now in its tenth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products.

Grand prize winner receives $500 and a copy of new book based on the popular contest

Bob Wilkinson of Northville, Michigan won the $500 grand prize and a copy of the new book, “Remove Child Before Folding, The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever,” by M-LAW president Bob Dorigo Jones. The washing machine warning and other winning labels were selected from a list of finalists by listeners of the Dick Purtan show on Detroit radio station, WOMC-FM.


Remove Child Before Folding, The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever is the hilarious new book based on M-LAW’s annual warning label contest. It was released by Warner Books on January 4, 2007 and is a perfect gift for students, new parents, lawyers, and anyone who believes America’s legal system could use a good dose of common sense. Click here to order your copy now!

Bob Wilkinson of Northville, Michigan, holds the $500 grand prize check he won for sending M-LAW a warning label on a washing machine that says: “Do not put any person in this washer.”

[pete f]

to bad that most kids that jump in them can't read.

[kbc747]

I think the older brother or sister that stuffs them in might be able to! After all it still costs money to was the sibling.

[mjwalsh]

We need a certain amount of media help to offset some of the abuses within our legal system. It kind of reminds me of the lying contest that some people had & one guy stood up & said "I have never & could never tell a lie" & the announcer said into the microphone in no uncertain terms "It looks like we have a new winner!"

[Monarch]

The sad thing is that so many people think this is humorous and do not see the deeper implication. The fact that you have to tell someone NOT to jump into a large mechanical rotating machine that generates high heat is a sad commentary on the shortage of common sense. I wonder, do tall buildings have signs that say "Do not jump from this building. Severe injury or death may result." The lengths that we have to go to protect people from their own stupidity is ridiculous.

JMHO

Norman

[Von Hef]

The sad thing is that so many people think this is humorous and do not see the deeper implication. The fact that you have to tell someone NOT to jump into a large mechanical rotating machine that generates high heat is a sad commentary on the shortage of common sense. I wonder, do tall buildings have signs that say "Do not jump from this building. Severe injury or death may result." The lengths that we have to go to protect people from their own stupidity is ridiculous.

JMHO

Norman

Right on Norman! Do you think a "No-Smoking" sign would have prevented this man (see link below) from recieving the Darwin Award?

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2006-06.html

[pete f]

Right on Norman! Do you think a "No-Smoking" sign would have prevented this man (see link below) from recieving the Darwin Award?

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2006-06.html


Of course we know the Darwin awards is fiction writing at its best, and does show how the writers are thinking via stupid acts. When I was in China last year I would see things like a side walk missing a tile, an uneven floor in the train station. Actually many things a stupid person, sorry, a person looking to blame their actions on someone else via a lawyer, would have a field day over if these things were here in "sue USA" You trip over a tile? It is your fault for not watching where you step. If you don't watch your kid and he/she gets killed/maimed you are a bad parent and have to pay the bill in China.
AT some point here in the USA we lost the responsible part, now we all pay for it thru insurance prems. Just 1 jury to say NO, it was YOUR fault!
Never happen. keep the lib ins in place.
OK, off the soap box. #@%@&*

[CharlieS]

Unfortunately these things have implications for us all. I run my various businesses through a separate management LLC. That LLC has a liability policy for its various operations. The policy is issued by the same company that insured the mat in Virginia (not one of mine) that the little kid locked his sister in the washer. Now, as a direct result, they are refusing to cover any of my laundry operations on the renewal. Since this business oversees three mats, plus several mats in apartment buildings, this means I have to find a new insurer. So far, all the estimates are significantly higher than what I have been paying.

Stupid or not, it directly affects us when someone does something like this.

Charlie

[daddy4ever]

The sad thing is that so many people think this is humorous and do not see the deeper implication. The fact that you have to tell someone NOT to jump into a large mechanical rotating machine that generates high heat is a sad commentary on the shortage of common sense. I wonder, do tall buildings have signs that say "Do not jump from this building. Severe injury or death may result." The lengths that we have to go to protect people from their own stupidity is ridiculous.

JMHO

Norman

Do we have to go to these lenghts to protect these people from their own stupidity or do we need to protect ourselves from those who are not willing to admit and take on the resposiblity of their own stupidpty?