It’s cardboard, not depleted uranium. How the fuck is it so dangerous I must dispose of it if damaged? The entire point of the product is for the furry psychopath that lives with me to damage it. It literally has no other reason to exist.
Gets damage, kid uses it as a stool, falls, parents decide to blame the company.
Pretty run of the mill situation tbh.
Only in America.
You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.
- Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious, lawsuits
- Judges toss frivolous cases
- Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment
Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.
companies also love to make it look like lawsuits are frivolous, when in reality the lawsuit was just “they gave me literally boiling hot coffee, not 40°C, not 50°C, literally 95°C coffee that melted my skin when i spilled it”
According to a friend who’s a lawyer she once had to explain to someone that she can’t sue her landlord because she slipped on a wet floor, since it was her house and therefore her wet floor. The landlord merely owns the house, but didn’t make the floor wet.
I presumed that since they mentioned a lawsuit.
True. Everyone knows other countries have no laws! /s
We do have laws! Just no suits. Everyone is naked here.
It’s an Ex-Mas miracle!
The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.
I would imagine this same label is applied to all of their products as a cost savings measure.
It’s this.
Lawyers: put the warnings on everything. Managers: what warnings? Lawyers: the warnings. Managers: yeah but Lawyers: on everything.
WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.
It’s like on medication when it says something along the lines of, do not take this medication if you are allergic to this medication or think you might be allergic to this medication.
Good now it’s your fault if you have an allergic reaction.
All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided—and you are an excellent test subject.
Choking hazard, next.
sounds like liability cover
I remember a summer about 10 years ago, when I went out at the beginning of summer to buy some new pool noodles. I looked everywhere, and couldn’t find them, all summer.
The next year, they were back, but they all had new tags that said “Not to be inserted rectally.”
Suddenly, I knew why they hadn’t been available, as lawsuits and regulatory issues got worked out. All because someone looked at a pool noodle, and got a weird idea.
That Spanish translation is awful
Your favorite pet only 😂
Hey can you give a better Spanish translation? I’m a beginner at learning Spanish and was reading the Spanish version in the picture and going “oh I see, so this is how you say this.”
“No permita niños que juegen con o cerca de este articulo.” Is pretty jumbled up. “No permita que los niños jueguen con este artículo ni cerca de él.” would be more correct. The way it’s written is like “Don’t allow kids that play with or near this article”, and “juegen” is spelled incorrectly
“Este producto se diseña para un específico y un uso previsto” - “se diseña” makes it sound like it designed itself? It should be “está diseñado”. Also they’re missing something to go with “específico”, probably “propósito específico”/“specific purpose” as is it just reads “for a specific” which makes no sense.
“Esto no se piensa para el uso como paso.” Sounds like “This is not thought of for use as a step”, but step in this case meaning like a footstep (action) not a stair step (noun). It should be something more like “No está diseñado para ser usado como escalón”
Lastly “animal favorito”… It would mean exactly what it does in English. My favorite animal is the dolphin. Pet, however, should be “mascota”. And also why only the favorite? So if one of my cats is my favorite animal then I should only let my other cats play with it? Lol.
Disclaimer: not a native Spanish speaker, just a self taught learner of several years.
It reminds me of the time at work that we got a piece of industrial equipment. The manual clearly had been translated from Chinese into English via a Tibetan monk who would never heard either language.
It said things like “ensure when on that the fingers are not found” and “if loud kick immediately and call for help from empowering”. The best bit was the warning at the top that said “DO NOT DANGEROUS”, which was very helpful.
For some reason it also had a biohazard label on the box. It was a laser engraver. Where’s the biohazard?
“DO NOT DANGEROUS”
That’s pretty good life advice in general.
