Remove Child Before Folding
The 101 Stupidest, Silliest, and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever
Introduction
Have you seen any good warning labels lately? Of course you have. They're
almost everywhere you look.
From the moment in the morning when you raise your head off a pillow bearing
that famous Do Not Remove warning tag, to the second you drop back in bed at
night, you are bombarded with warnings. And a special form of warning label,
the wacky warning label, can now be found on all kinds of consumer products.
There are sleeping pills that warn, "May cause drowsiness" and fishing lures
that caution, "Harmful if swallowed." Why do we have to be warned about the
obvious? Has the United States become a nation of idiots? Do we really need
to be told not to fold our children in their strollers?
A few years ago, NBC Nightly News did a report on wacky warning
labels. Tom Brokaw offered this explanation for why wacky warning labels have
become part of our national landscape: "Somewhere in America right now, an
untold number of people are on the phone to their lawyers ... saying, 'Sue
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