Warning: Loony Labels

Manufacturers of consumer products have to be liberal with the warning labels nowadays, lest they get sued. In the 21st century, people actually filed lawsuits against McDonald’s and other fast-food chains claiming that what they ate in those establishments made them fat in the waist, weak in the heart and clogged in the arteries. For years these unsuspecting customers have been wandering into these restaurants thinking that they served health food. These poor patrons have been receiving hamburgers and French fries instead of celery stalks and carrot sticks. Frivolous lawsuits are a boon for devious lawyers and warning-label writers. To protect the public from injury ‘and themselves from lawsuits ‘many manufacturers include warning labels on their products. Some of these labels alert consumers to unimaginable dangers: