I think we are living in a society where we have become suit happy and recall happy. I had an Easy Bake Oven. It was a lightbulb in a plastic box, that heated the cake mix.. and baked it. The darn thing got hot. If you removed the cake with bare hands, you got burned. So what did my parents do, they stayed with me the first time I made a cake, explained safety to me, and the first time I ran to them and complained about burning myself.. told me to be more careful.
They didn't scream about the oven being unsafe. What next, we should recall baseballs. Afterall, if you get hit with one.. you could get a concussion. And rollerblades.. if you fall you can get hurt. Lets add bicycles, barbies (they do have sharp edges on their hands and you could poke your eyes out), trucks (what if you stepped on one.. see rollerblades above), stuffed animals (those noses and eyes can come off an choke someone). Better yet, why don't we wrap our kids in bubble wrap.. give them holographic toys and that solves the problem.
Where do the parents' roles come into play? Did they buy and Easy Bake oven for a child too young? Because an older child would have some sense about sticking their hand in an oven. Did mom and dad just give the oven to the kid with no instructions about safety?
Now, I'm going to go out to Mc Donalds, order a hot coffee, stick it between my legs as I drive my stick shift car, scald my knees when the cup collapses when I slam on the brakes, and sue Mc Donalds Corp for $1m dollars.. for bodily injury! Oh and for psychological trauma!
Lisa, I wasn't making fun of your post. I actually found it cute. I just found the news of the recall to be quite disturbing for the reasons I mentioned.
I'll have to think twice about that coffee.. otherwise, I'd have to file for workers comp if I scalded my vagina... roflmao
I think you have the wrong defendant. Definitely you should sue the car manufacturer, for failing to have a warning label on the steering wheel that says: DON'T OPERATE VEHICLE WITH HOT MCDONALDS COFFEE. MAY CAUSE SEVERE BURNS TO VAGINA. Or something like that.
All joking aside, my favorite from the annals of litigation (and I am not making this up) is the company that made Batman/Superman costumes for kids (like for Halloween). They put on the costume a warning label that said: WARNING: CAPE WILL NOT ENABLE USER TO FLY.
Alot of little boys put on the capes think they are superman and then jump from a tree.
The warning label is somewhat justified since most parents don't think their kid could be that stupid.
Case in point, as a youngster I jumped from the roof with an umbrella but it sadly turned inside out .... if Mary poppins glided down gracefully... why can't I ?
I swear... the way some minds operate... one of my former GFs wore a jade cube on her belly button ring because she believed that the universe was a cube. I insisted that it was a do-nut. We compromised that it was between a sphere and a cube... hence a "sphoob"... then we ate it. Yum! )))))
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