I remember a story a friend of mine told us about his instructor at a Diesel tech college that would put his hand over a turbo inlet to kill the engine. ........ Oops one day a few fingers killed the engine... Hey now.. I'm guilty of that. Well the e-brake thing anyway. So far I haven't reproduced. I'm not infecting to gene pool........Yet. Jeff
You need to update your paraphrasing skills. That is NOT what the symbols on the buckets mean or say. Small children can, have and will drown in 5 gallon buckets, even in OK. Little kids cannot expect to know what will happen to them if they try something dangerous such as reaching into a bucket of water while Dad takes a beer break while washing the car. Kids are top heavy and fall in and drown. It is not uncommon. The idiot that reached breeding age is the inattentive parent, not an innocent child. Pull your head out of your a$$ where the air is fresh and reasonable thought processes can occur. That is your real problem
--------------------- Jeeze....I would hope they also warned you about not using it to check your battery after using it as a turkey baster too!!! Mart3406 ========================================
I installed a new V-belt the other day on my old daily beater. It is a 1995 Cadillac Sedan Deville ( with only 60 thousand miles ). The old belt had come off. I buy a new belt and check the factory installed belt routing sticker for guidance. I had compared the new belt to the old belt when I bought it ... just to make sure I had the correct belt. I installed the new V-belt per the sticker guidelines and had 4 inches of belt too much. I double checked the sticker and the routing of the belt installed and everything was installed per the guideline. I went to the internet and downloaded the guideline for a 1995 Cadillac with a 4.9 and it was different than the factory installed guideline sticker Went back to the Cadillac and installed per the internet and everything was OK. Now I know this old car has never been wrecked or had any work done to it. The factory installed the wrong sticker !!
That's like calling the doctor if your h@#d on last more than four hrs, the doctor would be the last one I'd be calling !
guys this is the kind of shit that happens when no "disclaimer" is involved! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-mAoyagng&feature=related can you say "FUCKTARD"?
There was a guy in a shop I worked at that used sandpaper on the v belt with the engine running to stop squealing. Well needless to say his fingers went through the pulley. But the stupider thing was a week later he did it again!
OHSA regs now require all ladders without these stickers to be removed from jobsite until new stickers are installed from manufactuer.
A few years back a guy went out to his garage in his boxers and flops, he opened a can of gasoline and began washing off his mower, gasoline all over the place, about fifteen feet from his hot water heater, of course the gasoline burst into flames and burned this guy mercilessly, it was found that it was the hot water heater manufactures fault due to the fact that they provided the ignition point, never mind the fact that the gas can says flammable, never mind the nature of the occurrence, the cleaning of parts in flops and boxers, the heater caused it 'cause it could, thats why all the heaters are modified. Keep that in mind when you build your car, someone might steal it crash it and sue you for not making it safe enough to be stolen. Ha.
OSHA says fined and destroyed, $5,000.00 each ladder. They have manufacturer safety dates, when they expire, destroy.
Even more fun if those stickers are on European or Asian made equipment and have been translated by non-English speakers.
On my 2 post lift. Gotta love the stick man hauling ass when the cars falling off the lift... And my all-time favorite:
I bought a set of punches/chisels from Harbor Freight once,they all had stickers on them that said "Warning,do not strike on hard surfaces or with hammer." Ended up giving them away.
WEDGED...YOU totally missed the point. Buckets are friggen' dangerous. It's PATHETIC that babies and toddlers are dying because morons aren't aware, OR don't care that a bucket can be just as lethal as a bullet in the head. Go "push your broom" and THINK about it. DD
My now semi-retired 81 year-old Dad still runs a small business manufacturing pressure washers and agricultural sprayers and pumping systems. A lot times, his products are shipped to customers 'semi-knocked down' with "some assembly required" on the part of the customer. Despite including clearly written and illustrated assembly manuals, with all of his machinery, he still gets occasional calls from confused and frustrated customers asking usually, really. really, dumb questions, about how to put their unit together or how to make it work. One day, after a series of particularly exasperating phone calls from a certain especially obtuse and less then even borderline mechanically inclined customer, he had a bunch of decals printed up to go on all future equipment that stated in large print and in bold red lettering:" FOR ASSEMBLY AND USE - IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY - *IF ALL ELSE FAILS* - READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL!" Mart3406 ============================================
I read somewhere that it costs more to manufacture and apply the warning labels on a ladder than it costs to make the ladder itself
Well so far today I've learned that it's more dangerous to post on this subject than it is to stand on your head in a bucket of water. Some of you folks need to relax.
that ones not too funny, a lot of very intelligent hard working farmers have lost arms and legs in those shafts trying to make a living. not because they are stupid, just because of the danger issue. Whoever invented those plastic guards to keep people alive was a genius. yea they are a pain in the ass, but they keep people alive and able to continue doing their job. I've seen pictures of what those shafts can do to people, and it will make you sick, no matter who you are. here's a good example, guy was just doing his job. http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/face/Reports/PDF-Reports/Roller Mill.pdf they are right about the bucket, toddlers can fall headfirst into those buckets and drown in six inches of water, and because of the way they are built, they can't get back out. the warning label should read: WARNING!! if your kid falls into this bucket and dies, because you are sitting on the porch getting drunk, and letting your toddler roam around unattended, a group of angry parents who give a shit, will come and severely beat you, before you are arrested for being stupid it's simple, if you have empty buckets, put some lids on them, or just keep them flipped upside down. something to consider, if you leave buckets around with oil or transmission fluid in them, if a kid inhales that stuff, there's not much they can do to save him. the stuff coats the air sacs in the lungs and there's no way to get it out
all right back to stupid, I have a TV here that actually says, do not use while item is immersed in water!!
----------------- That proves it! It's not buckets that are dangerous! It's not TVs that are dangerous!. It's not even stupid people doing stupid things that are dangerous! It's that damned water! If it's hot, it can burn you, at room temperature you can drown in it and if it's frozen, you can slip and fall on it! The stuff is absolutely deadly!! Use of this dangerous and deadly substance for any purpose - or even possessing it, probably should be banned outright, but short of that, as a "bare minimum" first step , the government needs to step in and insure that *all* water, everywhere, no matter how little or how great the quantity, have warning labels affixed it it....immediately!!!!! Mart3406 ===============================================
A couple of examples... Years ago, I was replacing the timing gears (no chain or belt) on a 2.8 Ford V6. The first line in the repair manual was: "With the engine out of the car...". I thought that this HAD to be BS, as there was plenty of room around the engine. But, no matter how I tried, I couldn't get the timing cover off the car, even with the engine 'jacked up'. So, after several hours of frustration, the engine was sitting on the floor with new timing gears... On the other side of the coin, last year I replaced the timing belt in a Subaru 2.5. Most of the belts come with two marks which you're supposed to line up with the timing marks on the heads. As a back-up, you're supposed to count the number of teeth on the belt between the marks on the head and the mark on the block for the crank. I had a Subaru factory manual, a Haynes manual and a DIY 'how-to' article that I'd downloaded from the 'net. All three of them had the same number of teeth listed for the count. When I counted the teeth on my belt, neither number matched! I called a friend who's a Subie tech. He told me to ignore the count of number of teeth. He said that it's wrong in ALL the books!
Funny thing is, we Europeans always have a great time reading the warnings on US products. If I was to sue a restaurant here, because of hot coffe, I think I might be picked up for ''mental training''. It's not that people don't do stupid shit here, we just think it's their own responsibillity. So your cat exploded when you were trying to dry it in the microwave? Don't sue the manufacturer, take it up with your stupid parents, and ask them why they couldn't just mary outside of the family.
Nah... you could just play the "I'm not from around here" card! Or say something about the language barrier, even if English is spoken frequently in your country!
I have to agree with lostforawhile, there's nothing amusing about getting caught up in a driveshaft or pto but the graphic itself is pretty funny.
As always, there are those that "get it" and the mouth breathers that don't. The danger of knives, getting hit by a car, fire, extreme elevation, guns etc. is obvious, even to the, aformentioned, short foreheaded, slack jaws. The danger of a plastic bucket full of water is, somewhat, less obvious. Few people can see or imagine the danger to small children that it presents. It's just a bucket of water. Since numerous drownings have occurred, it was deemed prudent to affix a warning. Nothing wrong with that. Would you let your kid play around a pool without supervision? What is the "gallon cut off"? To imply that the poor kid that drowns is culling the herd or improving the gene poll is, pure, dick headedness at it's most extreme. I agree that some of the warning labels are silly, extreme and, often, stupid. Some are there for very good reasons. If all of these warning labels bother you so much, stop having your mother read them to you. Grow up.
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