The most idiotic thing you have ever seen

[ShadowOfAGhost]

Let's face it, people are morons. And what's the best way to protect a moron against him/herself? slap on a warning label.

Now this isn't a thread strictly for warning lables, its just that those things are often the subject of many a blank stare and a drool.

So here is where you can post about anything you have ever seen that just made you say "DUHHHH!" :rolleyes:

For example:

When you open up a box of Gordon's Popcorn Shrimp, it says on the bag in big bold letters "Warning! Remove shrimp from bag before pacing in oven"

or

On a McDonald's coffee cup: "Warning: Contents are very hot"

[Zach]

Mcdonald's didn't have the warning until some women spilled the coffee on her and it burned her and she got mad because McDonald's "Didn't tell me it was hot coffee".

[ShadowOfAGhost]

right.... but my point is that people shouldn't be that dumb

[ShadowOfAGhost]

On a school bus liscense plate, you will see in tiny lettering "School Vehicle"

as if it weren't obvious enough.

[Wounded_Dragon]

On a McDonald's coffee cup: "Warning: Contents are very hot"Mcdonald's didn't have the warning until some women spilled the coffee on her and it burned her and she got mad because McDonald's "Didn't tell me it was hot coffee".The coffee was 40 degrees hotter than most other restaurants keep it - close to the 212 degree boiling point.
A national burn center had issued a public warning not to serve hot beverages over 135 degrees.
There were 700 other burn claims against McDonald's before this injury, yet no action was taken.
The victim offered to settle the case for $20,000 before trial, but McDonald's refused to settle.
Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns (the skin is burned away down to the muscle/fatty-tissue layer, the worst kind of burn) in two to seven seconds. Third-degree burns do not heal without skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability of the victim for many months, and in some cases, years. Not only men and women, but also children and infants, have been burned by McDonald's scalding hot coffee, in some instances due to inadvertent spillage by McDonald's employees. McDonald's admitted that its coffee was “not fit for consumption” when sold because it causes severe scalds if spilled or drunk.



http://www.mattenlaw.com/FSL5CS/articles/articles6.asp
http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/MB_mcdonalds.htm


You can find these and more over Google. If you're going to call someone stupid, you might want to do a little more research.

[ShadowOfAGhost]

point taken. will research in the future.:sweat:

come to think of it, that gives this thread new meaning (for me anyway). I didn't realize the circumstances about the exceptionally hot coffe, so this could also be used for enlightenment purposes.

May the torch of wisdom and insight expell all shadows of ignorance!

[Yash]

The witch who sued those two girls because they brought her a plate of cookies.

[Wounded_Dragon]

point taken. will research in the future.:sweat:
Not a problem. I try to spread the word whenever someone brings up that particular case. McDonald's cracks me up sometimes. There was an incident where they sued a protest group over in the UK. The funny thing was of the 6 protestors, 4 were McD's spies. :sweat:

As for idiotic, nothing springs to mind, but weird, that I can do:

Man Catches Fire During Surgery
Seattle (Reuters)

Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.

The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.

The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.

Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they are extremely rare.

The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.

Caplan strongly disputed its contents. "the letter is factually incorrect," he said.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Most idiotic thing I've ever seen? A guy who claimed to be the descendant of George Washington and kept insisting that he was going to take over the world, possibly by force, and make it perfect.

[Raeofdarkness]

The guy who came up to me with a thong on his head and asked me if I was Richard Simmons.

[Aquagirl15]

There is a site that I've been to before that has a lot of these types of things. I can't remember them all but here's a couple:

On the bottem of a pudding desert: do not turn upside down.
Instructions on a bag of peanuts: open bag, eat peanuts.

[MahouShoujo13]

Well, my sister and I keep on noticing on some juice cartons and bottles saying "All Natural!" or "Naturally Flavored" when you look above the nutrition label in small print, 5%, 10%...a small percent of juice. Or, if you look at the ingredients and see artificial flavorings there.

I don't know if that's really idiotic (maybe it is...can anybody do some research on that?) but that's what I saw. Bunch of crapola if you ask me....well, if you notice it.

[ShadowOfAGhost]

:sweat: :sad:

eh heh heh he...... yeah.

[tucsoncoyote]

Here's the weirdest thing I've ever seen /Heard and this is perhaps really weird.

Giving an 18 month old baby a notice for Jury duty. (Honest! this was on Fox News recently!)

:coyote:

[SilverKnight]

I don't know, but your inability to spell words like "labels" and "placing" puts you near the top of the list.>flick< Please refrain from being an ass. There are such things as typos, and better ways of pointing them out. We'd all be obliged if you were to consider this in the future. Thanks.

And dumbest things I've ever seen? Hmmm. Not sure. I do recall getting into an argument with someone over whether or not blood had a smell. His reason as to why he believed it didn't? He cut his nose badly and couldn't smell the blood. I asked him if he could smell anything else, either. He shut up very quickly. :D

[Artimus Gigan]

I looked in a mirror once...
and saw Fox's Sunday lineup playing on TV in the background

ooooh double reverse critical Media BURN

[Ben]

This morning, there was this guy inside my mirror...

[Artimus Gigan]

This morning, there was this guy inside my mirror...ripoff...

[Ben]

ripoff...

Dude, seriously, you must have started writing that after I started reading this thread, because I totally didn't see your post there.

Great minds think alike. Or soft minds run together.

[guinaevere]

I'm a big fan of those people who cut me off as I'm driving along, when there's no one behind me for miles and then proceed NOT to speed up to the pace I was driving at... as if waiting 2 seconds to pull out would have killed them, or that it was their duty to slow me down.

I tend to see these drivers as total and complete idiots.

[LightShadow1890]

Okay, I was sitting in my Global History, exactly noon. It was near lunch time.

All of a sudden, my teacher goes "You smell that?" Some agree, but I never detected any smell from the vents.

He goes on saying exactly day at 12 noon, you can smell the food from the cafeteria (where my class is is in the same floor as the cafeteria). So, people start sniffing, and start saying it smell fries...chicken...etc. He goes "No, the trick is to smell the special. ou might bot smell it, but it's there." So, he uses his special smelling powers (um...something added by me) to smell out the special. While the students are just waiting, I'm like, "What the hell? Who cares what the special is?!?" Well, he guessed it was this chicken surprise...

Oh, and a girl who's a classmate in my orchestra class comes in and tells my teacher that the announcement for the new Pope has started, and the teacher from her class asked if he wanted to watch. The class gets so hyped up, and my teacher walks from his desk to the other side of the room to turn on the TV (Yes, every classroom has a TV, so does the cafeteria, auditiorum, gym, library...and a few other places).

Yeah, I had to go through this retarded crap the day of the announcing of the New Pope. And I forgot to ask him if he was right. Oh well.

[Zach]

The stupidest thing i've ever seen is two guys dresses up like the KKK swimming in a hotel's pool screaming "White power!" while I try to sleep in the hotel. All this is happening at 3 in the morning. God, I hate humanity.

[Toss]

the stupidest thing I've seen is the Numa Numa dance. *twitch*

[ToOn~g@l]

I've seen way too many idiotic things to pick just one so here is the most idotic thing I have ever heard.

A few years ago when my step dad was still living with us. He was staring at Pikes Peak, a mountain nearby that looks very pretty with all that snow in the winter, it had snow on it and he said and I quote.

"That is the most beautiful site ever, they should make a law that says PIkes Peak should be white all year."

I rolled my eyes and said. "Oh so your saying if it does not have snow on it, they'll arrest the mountain and put it in jail. YEah like that will happen." :rolleyes:

[solarflere]

I've seen way too many idiotic things to pick just one so here is the most idotic thing I have ever heard.

A few years ago when my step dad was still living with us. He was staring at Pikes Peak, a mountain nearby that looks very pretty with all that snow in the winter, it had snow on it and he said and I quote.

"That is the most beautiful site ever, they should make a law that says PIkes Peak should be white all year."

I rolled my eyes and said. "Oh so your saying if it does not have snow on it, they'll arrest the mountain and put it in jail. YEah like that will happen." :rolleyes: Or spray paint it white, that way more tax dollars can go to waste:p.

[NASACAR]

In some states, it is illegal to take a shower naked.

[candy17]

In some states, it is illegal to take a shower naked.
Is that in the Southern states?