Product Warnings Just Kill Me!

[Cindy C.]

Oh, you guys really made my day!  You're so funny!

Anna observed:

> I was actually thinking of the infamous McDonalds (hot!!) coffee 
>case that happened here in the US a few years ago.  

Oh, I remember that one.  She really got a bad rap in the press, 
though.  I mean, the woman took a shot of scalding coffee to the 
*vulva*!!!!  

And McDonalds was serving coffee much hotter than the industry 
standard for no good reason, despite having received lots of 
complaints and reports of injury.  And the appellate court reduced 
the jury verdict by quite a lot in the end, anyway, IIRC.

I even have a touch of sympathy with people who do stupid 
things, 'cause, uh, I've been known to be stupid at times.  ;-)  I 
was mowing the lawn, and the chute started clogging because the 
grass was wet.  I reached down and came mighty close to actually 
sticking my hand in the running mower to clear out the grass.  I 
attribute this mental lapse to being woozy from the heat.

Anyway, my favorite case of a stupid person winning a huge jury 
verdict was a woman who scored $12 million off of Toyota.  It seems 
she was driving along and her floor mat became bunched up under her 
brake.  When it was time to stop, her foot either became caught in 
the floor mat, or perhaps it bunched up under the brake and 
prevented her from applying the brake.  Either way, the accident was 
Toyota's fault, the jury decided.

I suspect this is why my car has little tabs on the floor mat and 
floor to secure the mat.  

I do like those tabs though.  They keep the mats nice and flat and 
pretty.  ;-)

Cindy -- whose elderly neighbor once fell in her driveway and broke 
a hip and almost filed suit over it