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Posted by Peter Renton on October 11th, 2006

The ninth annual Wacky Warning Label contest conducted by the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW) has recently been awarded. The contest celebrates the wierd and wacky warning labels that appear on some products these days.

Here are this year's winners:

1st Place - A heat gun and paint remover that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees and warns users, "Do not use this tool as a hair dryer" (see the pictures below).

2nd Place - A kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife."

3rd Place - A cocktail napkin that has a map of the waterways around Hilton Head, South Carolina printed on it along with this: "Caution: Not to be used for navigation."

Honorable mentions this year also go to these two warning labels:

A bottle of dried bobcat urine made to keep rodents and other pests away from garden plants. It says: "Not for human consumption."

On a baking pan: "Ovenware will get hot when used in oven."

This contest was started by M-LAW in response to the many frivilous lawsuits that are brought by individuals these days. In response companies have had to assume that people using their products have very little intelligence or common sense, and so they need to warn consumers against every conceivable possibility. The good news is that it does make for some amusing labels. Here is a list of the best labels of the previous contests.

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One Response to “Wacky Warning Labels”

1. Matthew George says:

   October 14, 2006 at 8:58 am

   This is a very funny article. Boy oh boy the things companies need to put on labels. Great job. )