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Makes perfect sense to me. Hopefully this is fair warning and not because people can't figure this out on their own.

Clearly the rule would not have come up if people could figure it out on their own.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Clearly the rule would not have come up if people could figure it out on their own.

Reminds me of a variation of an often heard question back in the Navy...

Nub: Why do we have such idiotic rules about (insert topic).

Chief: Because someone, somewhere, did exactly what it tells you not to do.


The on going joke was that NOTHING was sailor proof.

Slaying that giant with a bottle of lilac vegetal !!!!! Tc

Originally Posted by MattCB

Reminds me of a variation of an often heard question back in the Navy...

Nub: Why do we have such idiotic rules about (insert topic).

Chief: Because someone, somewhere, did exactly what it tells you not to do.


The on going joke was that NOTHING was sailor proof.

That reminds me of a pair of bridges in Iowa City. They form a "V" across the river. Each bridge is for one direction of traffic and they can be seen HERE. The bridges on the side of the river with the bars are merged together, but as a drunk college student staggers across that bridge, he (of course it is always "he") notices through his blurry gaze that the gap between the bridges gets increasingly wider as he heads closer to his dorm. Now the obvious thing to do upon noticing this gap is to declare, "Hey, I can jump across that! Hold my beer!" Conveniently, there is a small dam immediately downstream of the bridges (it is visible in the link) and so when the honor student fails to make jump, his body rolls around under the dam for several hours until divers can retrieve it.

There was a public uproar about it in the 90s after yet another students body was recovered and the city engineer said the perfect, though politically incorrect thing. "We can put up signs, we can put up fences, but we cannot engineer away stupid."

I love that! You can't protect stupid people from making poor choices with signs and warning labels. My personal favorite warning label was on the lawn mower I bought last year:
Warning: do not lift to lawnmower up and use it to trim hedges or any other greenery.

Owners manual for Mercury outboards that I once had. It is unsafe to run over people while they are in the water, it could cause harm, injury and even death.
Really, I'm pretty sure they could have followed that with and if you could not have figured that out on your own please return this outboards to the dealer, clearly you are not smart enough to have an outboard.