![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Do not remove this tag
Aug. 20th, 2009 10:54 pmIt seems these days that I have to "fix" various products and tools I buy to rid them of large, sometimes multiple warning labels written in several languages. Case in point:
Here I'm holding an extension, or "whip" hose for my recently acquired airless paint sprayer. Said sprayer comes with a 50 foot hose that is reasonably flexible, but still awkward in many situations requiring lots of spray gun gymnastics. The purpose of this short (4 ft) is to make the gun easier to move and point by virtue of its thinner overall diameter and more flexible nature. The tag, as you can see, is quite large. Huge, in fact, when compared to the spray gun itself. Among all the warnings printed on both sides in English, French and Spanish is a warning not to remove the tag. If I were a good, clean, law-abiding true-blue 'Murkin and keep the tag in place, I would, among other things, look forward to it dragging across the freshly-painted surfaces, blocking my view, and being a general distraction and safety hazard. Instead, I will be a terrorist abetting heathen and remove the tag since the common-sense warnings it displays I fully understand. In a similar vein I removed a total of five large, stiff plastic tags from a rather cheap extension cord the other day. I left the tiny tag near one end that maintains the ratings of the cord. It's about the size of a postage stamp wrapped around the wire.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "But Phil, what if someone were to enter the Garage/Basement/Lab Of/Doghouse/Etc. Of Mayhem, hurts themselves with one of the objects that has had its warning label removed and as a result tries to sue?" For one, if they are so stupid and so bold to attempt such a maneuver, it will not be beyond me to beat them senseless with whatever it was that caused the issue in order to either knock some sense into them or make the suit not so baseless. Since that is not very likely to happen, I will leave the aforementioned threat as a warning. ;)
Seriously, this is part of what's wrong with this country. So much CYA bullshit appended to our daily lives because certain people succeed at bringing legal action as a result of their own carelessness and stupidity. In an earlier day and age not so long ago, such stupidity would have been so much Darwinian selection working at it's finest. The way I see it, there needs to be a lot more people using toasters while in the bathtub. Make it a requirement as part of daily hygiene before heading off to the teabagging rally or something.
Here I'm holding an extension, or "whip" hose for my recently acquired airless paint sprayer. Said sprayer comes with a 50 foot hose that is reasonably flexible, but still awkward in many situations requiring lots of spray gun gymnastics. The purpose of this short (4 ft) is to make the gun easier to move and point by virtue of its thinner overall diameter and more flexible nature. The tag, as you can see, is quite large. Huge, in fact, when compared to the spray gun itself. Among all the warnings printed on both sides in English, French and Spanish is a warning not to remove the tag. If I were a good, clean, law-abiding true-blue 'Murkin and keep the tag in place, I would, among other things, look forward to it dragging across the freshly-painted surfaces, blocking my view, and being a general distraction and safety hazard. Instead, I will be a terrorist abetting heathen and remove the tag since the common-sense warnings it displays I fully understand. In a similar vein I removed a total of five large, stiff plastic tags from a rather cheap extension cord the other day. I left the tiny tag near one end that maintains the ratings of the cord. It's about the size of a postage stamp wrapped around the wire.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "But Phil, what if someone were to enter the Garage/Basement/Lab Of/Doghouse/Etc. Of Mayhem, hurts themselves with one of the objects that has had its warning label removed and as a result tries to sue?" For one, if they are so stupid and so bold to attempt such a maneuver, it will not be beyond me to beat them senseless with whatever it was that caused the issue in order to either knock some sense into them or make the suit not so baseless. Since that is not very likely to happen, I will leave the aforementioned threat as a warning. ;)
Seriously, this is part of what's wrong with this country. So much CYA bullshit appended to our daily lives because certain people succeed at bringing legal action as a result of their own carelessness and stupidity. In an earlier day and age not so long ago, such stupidity would have been so much Darwinian selection working at it's finest. The way I see it, there needs to be a lot more people using toasters while in the bathtub. Make it a requirement as part of daily hygiene before heading off to the teabagging rally or something.
