They have all those dumb warnings so people can't sue them. Yes people sue for money. I think that's what it's all about when people sue for stupid reasons, they want money.
Oh yeah here is a good one, on hair dryers, the warning label says Not for use while sleeping, Do not use while in shower.
My mother has a hair dryer (I dunno if she still has it) but on the label on the cord, it has a picture of a bathtub with water in it and the hair dryer above it and it has a circle around it and a red line through it. It even had words at the bottom under the picture about how dangerous it is.
I can remember my mother telling me some people can be pretty stupid thinking they can dry their hair while taking a bath so they have to put a warning up about it. And I thought everyone knew putting electronic devices that are on in water is pretty lethal if you are in it.
Oh yeah and on video game cartridges or in game manuals, it says to not immerse in water. There was a lady that washed her SNES games in the dishwasher and she called the Nintendo help line and told her her games stopped working after she cleaned them. The person asked her how exactly did she clean them and the woman said she put them in the dishwasher. The lady told her they are beyond repair and to use a SNES cleaning kit next time. The woman said she wished someone had told her that sooner. I just laughed when I read that story on the old Nsider forums on the Nintendo website.
Oh yeah and I have seen games that said on the box, "For use with the (insert game system here) only." There was a guy who bought Goldeneye007 and he brought it back to the store and the game cartridge was in pieces. The person at the customer service asked the guy what happened and he said he tried to make it fit into his disc drive on his computer but it didn't work. I also laughed at that story.
At least I have never been that dumb. I have known since my early childhood that if you put any electronic devices in water, they stop working right after. I wrecked few of my things just to see if they would still work after and then I kept on doing it occasionally because I was trying to figure out why they stop working after you immerse them in water. But I didn't like getting into trouble by my mother so I had to stop.
