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Aren't any of these products safety tested?
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Aren't any of these products safety tested?
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We're in product-Hell, and just don't realize it.
Just curious, has there ever been a fire-hazard alert for a fire extinguisher?
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@legwork:
Back in the day, IIRC, they were filming the TV show Coach, and they used a fire extinguisher for some reason, which actually the propellant and material cought on fire and caused a huge flame up. It wasn't a grease fire or anything. It burnt one of the stars of the show.
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A lot of these cribs seem to have this problem. It was one of the reasons why we specifically did not purchase a crib with a drop side on it.
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@henrygates: Us too. And so many of them rattle...we didn't want to put the baby in the crib, finally asleep, and then rattle something and wake them.
Basic IKEA crib that turns into a toddler bed = $169 plus $25 mattress. Nothing fancy, but it works.
The reason no-one gets canned for this stuff is that bosses fear that they will spontaneously combust if they say \"You're fired!\".
Product recalls are Unconstitutional and violate company's rights to sell their products on a free market.
Instead of a heavy handed government the free market provides for shoddily made products. Companies that make dangerous or bad merchandise simply get weeded out in natural competition efficiently without bureaucratic mixups to infringe on your freedoms.
@Steve Pan: So it's not OK to alert people of these unsafe conditions/products? I guess in your perfect world, every person would have to become an expert in every field, and completely take apart everything they own to identify a possible flaw? And everything we eat we will have to run cultures on?
Are you serious? The free market DOES provide this. How about American Peanut Corp. Or Topps meat. Do you remember them? The companies that went bankrupt after consumers found out they distributed tainted products?
Too bad the free market only corrects itself after a few babies are killed.
I'm not American and haven't really studied the constitution but I don't remember anywhere in that document that promises businesses the right to sell crappy products.
Troll?
@andrewe:
It violates the spirit of Free Enterprise endowed in the Constitution by the founding fathers, who were btw almost all strongly in favor of strong property rights and laissez-faire capitalism.
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@Steve Pan: Show me where corporations' existence is sanctified in the Constitution.
It's not.
So, using your logic, we must disincorporate every one of them!
Thanks for your brilliant contribution. You'll go far!
I think a person's right to life or liberty trumps the spirit of free enterprise. Using your argument things like government mandated seatbelts, meat inspection, and legal drinking ages are also unconstitutional.
@andrewe:
A person's 'right to life' is nothing more than a glib collectivist strawman to infringe on other's property rights.
@Steve Pan: Read the Fifth Amendment when you get a chance. There's something about life in there, I think. Not sure though, that might be something that was never in there.
Personally I think the right to life is the most basic and important guarantee an individual can receive. On the other hand property rights are all in the news lately. DRM, RIAA, children being shot while mistakenly trespassing. The list goes on.
How many laws must businesses adhere to? Thousands? Millions? Are they unconstitutional too?
You fail to prove your point.
@andrewe:
A right to life is a destructive positive right while property rights are negative rights that exist but do not infringe on anyone's pursuit of life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness.
Educate yourself on the basics first before you try to smear my logic.
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@CameraShoe_GitEmSteveDave: If I knew how to post images, I would post a big, shiny, golden Internet picture for you, because YOU WIN.
@Kevin Wolf: She might be using a computer which uses only one mouse button. I do myself, sometimes.
Did anybody check out that Macy's one??
HOODIES WERE RECALLED JUST FOR HAVING DRAWSTRINGS.
BECAUSE APPARENTLY DRAWSTRING HOODS ARE DEADLY NOW.
According to the linked PDF on that page, due to the fact that a total of 22 kids died between 1985-1999 from drawstrings on their clothes, the CPSC thinks they're deadly. I'm sure 3x as many kids died in that period from getting tangled in their own shirts but they aren't mandating that kids go topless. What the HELL?
How did my generation (I'm 25) ever survive before they had outlet covers, drawer locks, cabinet locks, childproof doorknobs, velcro hoodies... WTF.
@West Coast Secessionist: My dad's idea of child proofing was to make sure my left hand held a glass of water (instead of the customary 100-proof vodka) whenever my right hand held a lighter.
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@Trai_Dep: Yeah, my parents were of the school of \"try it once and it hurts, you'll learn not to do it again.\"
For example. My sister (who is now 23) stuck a penny in an electrical socket. Shocked the hell out of her. My dad looked at her and said, \"Hurts didn't it? Bet ya won't do that again.\" Needless to say, she never did, and the rest of us we're dumb enough to follow in her footsteps.
@RandaPanda: that should read \"weren't dumb enough...\"
trying post while chatting with people doesn't lend to a cohesive post sometimes... ^_^
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@West Coast Secessionist: I'll be 32 in a little over a week, and I'm convinced my mother's idea of a child safety product was a playpen with sides too high for me to climb over. As to the rest, well, I couldn't get out of my playpen to mess with it, could I?
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@West Coast Secessionist: I hate to tell you, but they had outlet covers, drawer and cabinet locks and childproof doorknobs when you were an infant.
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@West Coast Secessionist: Even if your parents didn't use them child safety products existed when you were a baby. The existed for me and my sister and we're 20 and 25 respectively.
I don't understand the hate for child safety products anyways. Most of these products come from a genuine need. Maybe not a need to protect from death but from bumps, bruises, and broken bones. Babies and toddlers have no understanding of danger; they have an instinctive love of novelty. They will drink floor cleaner and lick electrical outlets because it is new and different, not like playing with the same old safe toys.
\"Rider can lose control of and/or be ejected from the snowmobile.\" - Don't all snowmobiles have this defect if you don't know what you're doing?
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@BayardMozie: I know they should have lead with \"Suspension Bolts Can Break Causing Rider to loose Control\". I guess someone is trying to practice their journalistic headlines.
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@BayardMozie: According to the full recall:
\"Hazard: Bolts on the rear suspension can break causing the rail tip to become dislodged and interfere with the snowmobile's track. This can cause the track to lock up and the rider to lose control of the snowmobile, posing a risk of injury.\"
That's a key detail left out of the summary. But yeah, replace 'breaking bolts' with 'alcohol' and you've just described all snowmobiles.
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I own one of those Ionic Salt lamps, my mother-in-law bought me one for Christmas. Looks like I will be giving that 800 number a call on Monday.
I read way too quickly and saw \"Knorr Chicken Vegetable with Pasta kosher soup mix-Fire Hazard\".
@captainpicard: But it's so stoopid, and even used his real name. Can't wait until his next potential employer Googles him and sees this brilliant example of his rational thinking and says, \"I need this!
...Or not.
@Trai_Dep: He's fresh out of high school, and still in his Freshman year of college. It will be another year till he actually starts getting an education, and about 5 until he realizes what the world is really like, even though he's a National Merit Scholar and in the top 3% of Missouri students.
@BuyingPowerTools_GitEmSteveDave: And five years after that, he might actually get laid for the first time...
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This pretty much makes me not want to buy anything ever again.
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We all need to be protected from ourselves. Perhaps 'Personal Plastic Safety Encapsulation Bubbles' should be issued. Careful eating your tapioca, you might slip and jam that fork in your eye.
@Steve Pan: 1/10. I only gave you the 1 because you got a few bites, and for introducing the terms positive and negative rights (albeit incorrectly) at your second attempt.
Please try harder.
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@theczardictates: Maybe \"Steve Pan\" is a Facebook 'bot? Because it's difficult for a human to write so spectacularly incoherently in such a rambling and pointless fashion.
Watch:
The rights of the positive freedoms are of the negatives to the point of Free Market consequentialism that exists for the right to life in comparison to glib strawmen! My logic is incredible, my defense is impregnable, you just can't understand it because I'm THAT much smarter than you.
See, it just doesn't have that \"throw the transmission into reverse on the highway\" stupidity to it. You really need a 'bot to do it right.
@runswithscissors: It's moments like this that make me wonder whether aliens have inalienable rights?
Legal aliens or space aliens, you choose.
I'm going up to my attic to inhale as much asbestos as I can without passing out. Let's see those flammable objects beat that!
I thought the way Baby Floats were manufactured is with two scoops of dead baby and one scoop of vanilla ice cream, then topped with root beer.
Are Aqua-Leisure Baby Floats better? Or simply more convenient?
@Steve Pan: You must be referring to the 28th Amendment, the right of corporations to sell their products and services on a completely free market with no government intervention whatsoever.
Good thing the amendment guaranteeing that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property never passed. What were they thinking when they proposed that?
um seriously did any one look at the table top rope cutter... seriously even if it didnt explode in your face or whatever it does not...the thing looks terrifying and dangerous just sitting unplugged.
Its a moving blade for u to run rope across....
@Robbie Powers: thats not how those work...it is used for nylon rope and the like...it gets hot and more or less melts the rope while sealing the ends so they dont fray...
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Made in China?
@MissPiss:
Like those fake iPods (mp3/mp4 players as they call them) that have batteries that are NOT safety tested an can explode