I bought one of those little things you use to sharpen chain saws with. The thingy you put on the cutter then put a drill on. Well, right there on the package was, "Warning! Before using, turn chain saw off".

-- Shooter (jcole@apha.com), November 13, 2000

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Think thats funny? How would you like to be the guy they call "Lefty" that was the reason for the label? You know hes' married and his wife still brings that day up.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), November 13, 2000.

That's right. There are people that dumb. I suspect all those folks that didn't know how to read the voting ballot down in South Florida would need a notice like that too.

-- Shooter (jcole@apha.com), November 13, 2000.

Or the 2 man toro hedge trimmer. 2 guys for a lawn service decide that a quick way to trim the bushes is w/ a lawn mower. They pick it up, 2 men, 4 hands + 1 lawn mower = 14 fingers to be reattached. As we say in the ER...don't mess w/ Darwin.

-- John in S. IN (jsmengel@hotmail.com), November 13, 2000.

John, they then sued Sears and got 2 million each!!!!They are the reason that all mowers have that little warning on the sides!!!Crazy but true!

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), November 13, 2000.

I wish the judges would start throwing out those lawsuits. Why should the store pay for their stupidity? We end up being the ones who pay with the prices we pay.

A woman tried to sue Swanson for labeling their chicken as healthy when it had a high salt content. It was found that she had no health problem so it was settled with the woman getting some coupons for free chicken. Swanson paid the court and attorney fees in the thousands. Who won? The lawyers!

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), November 13, 2000.

The funniest thing to me is that the people who are stupid enough to need these warnings are too stupid to READ the warnings anyway!

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), November 14, 2000.

It all has to do with the money-grubbing lawyers who want to make money off those unfortunate folks who are as dumb as a Palm Beach democrat. GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), November 15, 2000.

Brad, don't be so harsh on lawyers, it's just 90% of 'em that give that other 10% a bad name!! What do you call 150 lawyers going down in a jetliner crash? A good start.

Senior partner and new associate lawyer go to lunch. Seated and given drinks by a beautiful young waitress. As she walks away, the older lawyer says, " Boy I'd like to ________ her" The young one says, "Out of what"?

It is true about the cost of the litigation being passed on to consumers. Look how many "Doofus Stickers" are on a ladder, trimmer, saws of any kind, toys, ect, ect.

My favorite instruction, "Open box first". Hey Moe!! Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck. John

-- John in S IN (jsmengel@hotmail.com), November 15, 2000.

I covered a trial about 7 or 8 years ago where a family here sued, I believe Yamaha, or one of the companies that then made 3 or 4-wheelers. Their 9 year old son had been killed while riding one through a wooded area, He wasn't wearing a helmet and he wasn't supervised. They wound up getting several million and the lawyers made even more.

-- Suzy in 'Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), November 16, 2000.

Do you know why they use lawyers for lab experiments?Cuz the researchers were getting to attached to the lab rats!

-- teri murphy (mrs_smurf2000@yahoo.ca), November 19, 2000.

A man is walking in a cemetary one day and sees a tombstone with the words "Here lies a lawyer and a good man." How about that, the man thinks to himself, 2 people in 1 grave.

-- Ben (b_dowell10@hotmail.com), January 30, 2002.

There wouldn't be so many of those lawyers if there weren't so many of us that think we're entitled every time we pull some damn fool stunt and get the usual reward for it.

How could they successfully sue if it weren't for the politicians who pass the laws that make it possible? Who elected those politicians that passed those laws?

Always comes back full circle.

We have met the enemy and he is US.

.........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), January 30, 2002.