Is this really necessary to put on a box KNIFE? Are people so dull that they have to be warned that the blade is sharp? If they don't know that, I'd bet they can't read!
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Is this really necessary to put on a box KNIFE? Are people so dull that they have to be warned that the blade is sharp? If they don't know that, I'd bet they can't read!
if it's necessary to put a HOT warning on coffee, then i suppose we should be fair and put a sharp warning on knives.
Its like the hot coffee lids at mcdonalds, somebody would use it as a way to sue them
People are idiots,my wife bought a new Iron last week,warning on box,DO NOT IRON CLOTHES WHILE WEARING:)
Someone did, years ago. And wonQuote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
My Mercury outboard manual said WARNING it is unsafe to run over people while they in the water. It could case injury or even death.
I think if you can't figure that out you are too stupid to have anything motorized.
It all boils down to using a little common sense but common sense isn't so common these days.
I could write books about this.....it is truly sad....No Joke.
In the opposite end, in my neck of the woods, or in this case one of the frozen Great Lakes, there are signs everywhere that say, "Stay Off - Thin Ice" or something to that effect, and every year, we see people dying from falling through the ice from walking on it, plunging through the ice on snowmobiles or ATVs, just tragic, and it seems people never learn.
Actually know a guy that cut the heck out of his wrist with a safety box knife. The blade sticks out about 1/4 " and retracts at the end of the cut IF you use it right. And yes he still works there pffffff.
This is one of my favorites. Must have actually happened once and that is sad but I bet the dumb parents are still walking around and breeding.
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I have actually done this. When I was in the Navy, I had a uniform inspection and already had my dress whites on. The ribbons were perfect as my buddy helped me adjust them and I didn't want to take anything off for fear of messing anything up but there was a random crease on the sleeve so I had to iron it. I put took some card board and slipped it between my arm and sleeve and ironed away. It got hot but it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
Rifles come with warnings stamped on the barrels. And booze, and smokes, and motorcycles, and cars, and... We live in a suing culture (those of us who live in the US at least...)
It seems the new American Dream is "Don't work at all, and get rich quick"
I have heard that around here they don't want to mark the thin ice because there might be some at the other end of the lake and if someone falls through there they can sue for not being warned about that area then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
There seems to be no such thing as personal responsibility and risk anymore. It is the Governments job to protect us and if there is a 1 in 100,000,000 percent chance of injury or death it is Governments job to prevent us from doing it!
I suppose the government requires these warnings for all as Cali had to do it first! (Sorry, Cali guys! ;))
I get tickled every time I knock a bearing race out with this thing! Must be 40 years of it! :rofl2:
Sorry. Cannot upload pics, but it is a 12 inch tapered punch saying 'for line-up use only. Not for impact use!'
Hammer end is mushroomed!
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I had a splittng wedge that was mushroomed,friend borrowed it.He lost an eye when it shatterd.
Yeah, getting time to dress it out again! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
I always wear gloves when using those things and one day a piece hit my little finger through the glove after a good hammer whack. I was changing pins on a backhoe bucket and when I took the gloves off I saw a cut on the inside of the second knuckle. No big deal but it hurt for weeks. About a year latter I grabbed something to keep from falling and ouch that finger hurt like heck again for a couple of days. After washing the big rig (which took a couple of hours) I noticed a dark spot on that finger and thought about that day. Took me 2 hours of digging with various blades and picks but I dug out a small piece of steel that was stuck in the bone. I wore glasses when doing that from then on. Just saying :<0)
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That one fits you to a 'T', Bill! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by WW243
How many millions of dollars should society spend to protect someone from an accident or something that someone should know better about?
Seriously what is life worth?
Some people believe priceless.
I don't.
I think that there has to be a balance between things that are practical and things that are not.
I might have a tree fall down on my head tomorrow morning. Should we cut down all trees to make sure this hazard is removed???:hmmm:
aahhh the ol save me from a law suit label ..lol
You know, now that I think about it, I got this straight razor from an online shop that had no warnings with it at all, and I cut myself. Where did I put the lawyer's number?!??......Quote:
Originally Posted by holli4pirating
Well, this type of label never saved an idiot from himself. Natural selection still exists, in spite of the government's efforts.
Voters are getting injured and dying every day and costing us all piles. No one teaches and advises like they used to.
Hell, not so many WORK like they used to. JMO
Less than a minute with the bench grinder would remove that burr and add a slight taper to the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I would worry more about the exposed fibers visible in the lower portions of the picture!:hmmm:
Ya, I dress the end pretty often and the top every once in a while. Like I said, about time! This punch has lost a few inches over the years. Good old Craftsman! Just nylon threads from some beaten-up indoor/outdoor carpet on the tool box. Gotta get new stuff! :p
on the lawsuit topic ..
a lady in Cleveland got a letter from the courts that her neighbor filed a suit for mental abuse and all kinds of damage do to dog barking .. so she laughed, thought it was a joke and didn't go to court !! well co urt ruled in favor of the neighbor and is rewarded either $350,000 or $500,000 ..guess she should have went to court but either way what a ridiculous lawsuit
In the land of the free lunch and lack of responsibility where shop teachers must teach by demonstration, and the kids are not allowed to use tools due to insurance considerations...will we import the Asians to operate the equipment which we all ready buy from them...one wonders.
Till you operate a college level mixed equipment shop in the art department and deal with the students who have never used a tool nor seen anyone in their family use one; you have not experienced terror such as is available to a responsible person in charge for the first weeks of a quarter.
Since art was their passion, they mostly were educable.
Industry is crying for workers in many skilled positions and can find few takers or even people who they can train.
Oh yes, the Mac and Don hot coffee fiasco...the injured party later admitted the whole thing was a scam with some properly coached helpers and they had fun while the money lasted. I understand she in now on welfare.
~Richard
PS, Saw a washcloth set with the full safety listing of safety glasses and electrical warnings...the whole list. Hmmmmmm:thinking:
In the factory where i work they need help but are having a hard time finding people that can even pass the drug test.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
They're even doing it in China (I think).
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Is a sad situation,I used to teach adult Ed night classes at a local J.C (wood shop/metal shop) OSHA shut us down for lack of a very spendy sawdust evac system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
True craftsmen are going the way of the dinosaur,Young people today have no way to learn anymore and the people that can teach them are dying off and or forbidden to do so.
Somebody did, hence the warning.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosperryan
Yup, and later when the money ran out she admitted it was a hoax.Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
~Richard
There are a lot of people out there with absolutely no common sense, and many of them are well educated. It's pretty scary.
With that, my firefighting helmet has a warning in it saying something to the effect that firefighting is inherently dangerous and can result in
injury or even death. Damn, I wish I knew that 20 years ago!
John
You're a firefighter - interesting, a buddy of mine is a Captain in the Fire Department. Told me a story of how he and a huge crew went on an alarm at a housing project area for a laundry fire. It was a lot of smoke, nothing else. When everything was under control, it was the lint in the container that backed up and started smoking. He asked the women, pointing to the sign that said, "clean and remove lint before each use", why it hadn't been cleaned, from what looked like months, her response was that it wasn't her job to do that with a large dose of attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by kerryman71
He scoffed at her, made some remark that she took the wrong way, and promptly filed a complaint against the department and him. No thought "ping" bouncing around her empty head that a) her and others could have caused a major fire with potential injuries and property damage, and b) that to dispatch two ladder trucks and dozens of personnel for a potential fire at a housing complex probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I couldn't believe it, was stunned, but he said he see's it all the time and that basically, "you just can't fix stupid."
Yup, to paraphrase Forest Gump, sometimes life seems to be a box of stupids and you never know which one you are going to get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
Bob
About 20 years ago one of the guys in my zone on midnights, about 3am, rolls up on Lincoln Road Mall (outdoor mall about 10 blocks long)on Miami Beach. He gets on the radio & tells the dispatcher that there's a 3 alarm fire at the corner of Lincoln & Washington business on fire, about 4 seconds later he screams into the radio, "There are at least 5 businesses on fire, tell the fire department to send everything they've got." The police dispatcher sits next to the fire dispatcher in the comm center, so of course the fire dispatcher hears this as its being broadcast. She does her job & tells Miami Beach Fire to send all they have, she then presses a button that links her with the rest of South Florida & asks for help from Miami. The trail of engines at 3am crossing the bay from Miami alerted the media helicopters & they flew toward the scene.Quote:
Originally Posted by kerryman71
Before the response could be halted , I had counted 11 engines, that's just what I could see. What my zone partner had failed to notice from the beginning, was an Orkin fumigating truck about 4 business down, parked on the mall, with a large diameter hose running into the door of the business, pumping in bug killer,,, so much that it filled the business traveled the shared ceilings of the other businesses & filled those businesses too,,, the excess fumes rolling out from under the doors of the other businesses.
We rushed the zone cop who called it off, out of there before the firemen could get to him. The next night at roll call , the fire chiefs from two cities attended & presents him with a kid's fire hat & made him Honorary Fire Marshall,,,,, he retired 15+ years later & firemen from that night were there & made sure he didn't forget that night.
Stupid knows no limits.
You can't fix stupid, but you certainly get to pay for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
In the "Furnace Problems are dangerous" thread I mention a few things such as that. Sometimes when you tell someone how their waiting for someone else toQuote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
do it may cost them or their family their lives or at the very least destroy their belongings they get it, but not always. The key is to let them know how it will
affect them, because they generally don't really care about anyone else.
John
