Had the wife's new washing machine delivered this morning..

They drop it off and take off... so I guess Installation wasn't included or they had to get down to the donut shop for a coffee refill before their next delivery....

Set the thing up, and it is covered in WARNINGS, READ INSTRUCTIONS before use!! Well reading instructions is always a good idea, even if it is just a washing machine..

However, reading those instructions, each page is filled with how this washing machine can kill me in so many ways...."CAN Cause SERIOUS INJURY or DEATH!!" fills each page.. more than once....

So I have to ask.... ARE PEOPLE REALLY THAT STUPID???

OR HAVE WASHING MACHINES GOTTEN THAT DANGEROUS???

Really... how in God's Green Earth, have so many of us survived for so long, surrounded by all the dangers liberals/democrats seem to think we need to be worried about....

I am sure we all know someone who attended a funeral last week, where the pastor mentioned that even tho Shaniquwa or Juanita lived a good life and were constantly living God's commandments in their every day life, their lives were tragically cut short, because they failed to read the instructions on their washing machine......

Danger lurks around every corner.... Be diligent and be aware fellow campfire members... and Remember, Lets be SAFE out there...

The lunatics are running the asylum....

Yes, people are that stupid and some are even stupider! Those warnings are probably there to cut down on law suits by said stupid people, dead of alive.

Soon, probably in this century, we will be medically immortal. Undoubtedly, the nanny state will here to keep us safe from accidents.

Death by washing machine is no laughing matter. It can happen.

All it takes is 1 nit-wit and a lawyer�"Nobody told me I couldn't wash the baby on the gentle cycle."

Like a loaded 3-round sandwich??

Yes, people really are that stupid and they all have lawyers waiting in line to reap the benefits of their stupidity.

Well I can see the need to have the instructions in Spanish, if a washing machine is that dangerous... but where are the instructions in Ebonics??? Where are Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Sheila Lee Jackson to preserve and promote the contributions of Afro Americans to this nation, and preserve their physical well being and preventing them from being killed by their washing machine...

maybe the inherited dangers of a Washing Machine, is why we can't trust WASHINGton to protect us all...from ourselves...

and I am sure everyone of them will be casting their votes for the Democratic Party within the next few weeks...

I know a man who was serving on a carrier doing his mess cooking in the ship's laundry. A washing machine acted up while he was removing clean laundry and ripped off his left arm. The reattached it but it has never worked right.

It's funny. I helped a guy clear a clog in his washing machine drain a few days ago.

While doing that, I laughed at how he set it up.

Had the power cord zip tied to the drain hose and plugged in three inches directly below the drain opening in the wall. No drip loop. Had installed the outlet himself and was fairly proud of it. Until I pointed out his error.

So yeah, he should have read the directions I guess.

Give it time.

I see the stupid word used in this thread a whole bunch.

I think I'm fairly smart , testing even bears that out.

I can't figure a way to kill myself with a washing machine , anybody that can must be some kinda genius.


Mike

I had one of those warning labels on the fancy new air bed. The wife and I have attempted suicide many times over the last three years, to no avail.

Some of those warnings make for hilarious reading - until you realize that some dumbchit somewhere did exactly what is described and sued the company because of it.

"Do not iron clothes while wearing them."

"Do not aim weed burner at face or body"

"Do not climb into washer/dryer during operation"

"Do not feed meat into grinder with fingers"

Been thinking of using the push mower to trim the hedges that i don't have yet.

It happened and i think that they have to have someone feed them.

They need to do the world a favor and remove all of those labels from everything,thin the herd so to speak.

Ever wonder why it says "Do Not Eat" on the bottom of a claymore mine?

his arm or the washing machine?

Stupidity in this country could be greatly reduced simply by removing the warning labels. Just sayin'......

In one old factory I worked in, there was a large roll up door between departments, allowing for forklift traffic. Hanging from the ceiling was a wire, that had been rigged up at some point in the past to the door switch. The driver could just drive up, reach up, pull on the wire, and the door would open or close without him having to get out.

One day the forklift driver, a pleasant old fellow named Al, drives up, pulls on the wire, and it shocks him. Apparently some malfunction in the switch caused it. He sat there startled for a while, then cautiously reached up with his other hand, and surprise! It shocks him again! Then he decided he best tell his boss.

His supervisor was crying when he told me the story. Neither of us could talk for a couple of minutes, we were laughing so hard.

I saw one lawsuit where I guy had dropped a running lawn mower on himself. He was holding the push mower about head high and pruning his hedges. The lawsuit stated that the instructions never stated to not use the lawnmower to prune with.

I'm pretty sure the instructions never read to not shave your junk with it or to shove the mower up your ass either.

I know for a fact the arm was not attached right and had a twist. Not sure about the washing machine as that was in the 60's and the carrier is now scrap.

It's not that people are that stupid, it's that so many are looking for a quick buck by suing for anything they can so the manufacturers protect themselves from these ambulance chasers by putting warnings everywhere. They know it's BS and nobody reads them, but it gives them legal plausible deniability that they warned about anything and everything that could possibly inflict damage from their product.

It's in the same vein as the "Wet Floor" sign that stays permanently posted at the door of most stores nowadays even though the floor isn't actually wet 98% of the time. When you leave the sign up all the time it becomes meaningless because it isn't actually warning you of current conditions, but they do it because if they don't have it up and some fool falls down they get sued for not having the sign up.

A house I bought had that in the garage. Guess the previous owner never thought running a wood screw through the strip case could be hazardous. It shocked me when I reach to turn on the strip. No harm done, other than being startled.

All the warning labels mean two things. First, somebody with no sense at all tried and failed at whatever the label said not to do, and second, some lawyer profited from his mistake.

I don't know about washers and dryers being dangerous, but they are very complicated.
I am visiting with my Mom in 'bama, while baby sis and family are on vacation.
They have a new LG washer and dryer. Each has something like 37 different settings. None that say "regular laundry". I can't figure it out, so I'll just run down the street to the laundry matt.

Mixing concrete in the WM is a no no as well. Very hard on the gearbox.

Some years ago a guy in Boise, IIRC, killed himself with a water bed. He had moved to a new apartment and was setting it up. While it was filling from a hose, he way lying on the floor next to it reading. The frame collapsed and the mostly full mattress rolled off and covered him up. He suffocated.

It's easy to kill yourself with a washing machine if you're small enough to get in it and fill it over your head. You can also disconnect the wires at the back and stick them in the water while you're sitting in it. It makes a great hot tub.
You can beat yourself to death in a front loader if you have an assistant to turn it on after you get in.

Many years ago I had a cousin beat up a bit in a commercial drier in a laundromat. He and a friend were taking turns riding in it.

If you have to read instructions..
you probably shouldn't be messing with it anyways.

I do remember in college, went to the local laundramat every Sunday afternoon to do my laundry in the winter...it was empty, so I could study ( after goofing off the earlier part of the weekend)....

it started raining real hard while there and a bunch of local punks about 12 to 14 come running in to get out of the rain...they were watching out the window for it to let up.. and all of a sudden they are rocketing out the door.. couple minutes later they come back in....

studying, I didn't think much of it...looked up at them a few minutes later, they are watching the door of one of the dryers like it is a TV and laughing.....

I still didn't think much of it, until I hear the dryer thumping louder and louder, and they are laughing all the more....

so I finally get up to see what is so funny, and inside the dryer is some cat they evidently went out and caught in the parking lot...

I chased them out, and opened the door to the dryer.... the cat bails out and then just staggers across the floor and then collapses against one of the walls, rolling its head as dizzy as hell....

I had to give the little cretins credit, that was pretty darn funny......



and yeah Sam, the new worsher( washer) is an LG....has more options than the menu at a Chinese Restaurant...

My son thought it was funny, that the instructions and safety warnings were in English and French and not Espanol....

My son said that was probably because Mexicans don't buy new washers, and those that have one, probably stole it...

Seems Dad is rubbing off on him....

Same reason instructions aren't written in ebonics. MoFo's gonna either pawn it or try to sell it for scrap metal..

Obama got re-elected, and you still have to ask this question.

If you have to read the instructions you probably don't have sense enough to read the instructions.


Mike

consider how much election fraud democrats pull?

well yeah, I have more belief in Democrat's pulling fraud...

OMG! That was funny!!! Who knew there are so many extraneous parts on a Whirlpool?

Next time you are around one of those shop towel machines that has the towels in a loop. Read the warnings. I worked in a shop that had one and the warning label stated " Do not stick head through loop, possible hanging" As has already been stated the only reason those warnings are there is because somebody did it and somebody profited from it. It would make a good coffee table book if someone would research all those warnings and give the back story on all of them.

Is there a warning that if you lock a neighbors kid inside and wash it that a lawyer will sue you?

My partner has a couple black walnut trees. He wanted a way to get the husks off and clean them up. We went to an appliance store and got an old drier that would still spin ($20). We took the heat element out and removed the filter. I had to rig a 220v outlet for it outside. We set it on a pallet downwind of the house, dumped in 5 gal of nuts and turned it on.
It makes a glorious banging noise and shoots buckets of chaff out the vent but it sure does a nice job of cleaning up the nuts. It takes about 30 min to thoroughly clean 5 gal of nuts.

Had a friend some 40 years ago that while working on his car in his 2-1/2 car garage with attached laundry room and front door wide open, was mopping up an oil spill with a rag soaked in gasoline... wife had left clothes in the dryer and the every 15 minute or so anti-wrinkle cycle kicked in and he had one hell of a flash-over, singed all the paint on the walls and just about took all his hair off...

Phil

Roofer - cleaning up after a nasty repair (many attempts) - attempted to clean the tar drips off the water heater and boiler (using gasoline) without turning off the appliances!
The workday got interesting - FAST!

Should I bring up the woodshop instructor walking in and lighting his cigar?

Phil

Yep.

On a related note, anyone who visits a European country will soon have brought to mind what it was like in America in the days before lawyers messed everything up. What we'd call "lawsuits waiting to happen" are everywhere you go. They expect people to be smarter about negotiating life's everyday dangers than we do in the United States. Most likely that's the case because their legal systems are set up to discourage frivolous lawsuits.