ORIGINAL: init4fun
ORIGINAL: Luchnia
In my meagerly opinion safety cannot be enforced and must be taught. The same clown that sticks his hands into moving lawnmower blades or a spinning chainsaw chain is bound to hurt himself in some way sooner or later unless he is taught and heeds his teaching. He/she is simply ignorant and needs to be educated about the dangers of moving objects.
[
] With all due respect , I strongly disagree with this notion .
If good ol fashioned common horse sense don't tell a guy to keep his fingers , toes , and other dangly bits outta the prop , , , aint NO amount of haranguing bout safety gonna keep that guy from gettin bit !!!
Do you REALLY mean to tell me that a nice big red/orange warning sign plastered on every corner of a lawnmower is what's needed to keep folks fingers outta the blades ? And not the god given brains that we ALL posses that KNOW what a 3600 RPM 21'' lawnmower blade will do to hands on contact ???
I somewhere saw a cute little sign that went something to the effect of ;
'' Wanna rid the world of stupid people ? Remove ALL the warning labels and let the problem solve itself ''
[8D] Maybe , just maybe , the idea actually does have merit
I guess some folks really have no clue why messages like those appear on all kind of things... Like "Objest might apperar closer (or further) than what they seem.
In all cases
1) some idiot got hurt
2) he sued themanufacturer
3) the manufacturer has to cover his arse (well, a bit deeper than that. They want to curt down unnecessary legal expenses)
Now you know
Coming back from Nice last summer we landed in NY and boarded a small turbo prop to go to Philadelphia. The lady warned us while boarding that we had emergency exit seats. The stewardess came over and explained us the ropes in case of ditching. Well, while waiting I noticed a sign in English under the window, and below SAME MESSAGE IN BRAILLE! That really cracked us up! Just imagine, you would only put blind folks on that row if every passenger is blind... I have the picture somewhere. It made the long wait to take off a bit more amusing...
So, granted, some might be stupid messages, but they are there for a practical reason. One can NEVER underestimate the idiocy of the user.
I remember one person's lawsuit because he placed the extension chord around his neck, plugged the extension chor into the outlet, and walked towards the electric lawnmower. Well, he did not have enough "free" chord, you can imagine the rest... Fell backwards with the chord pulling from his neck, got hurt, sued.
Gerry