"Do Not Use For Personal Hygiene..."

Nick Gillespie | January 7, 2005

...That admonition was the winner of an anti-lawsuit group's contest for the wackiest consumer-warning label of the year.

The sponsor, Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, says the goal is "to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common-sense warnings on products."...

A $250 second prize went to Matt Johnson of Naperville, Ill., for a label on a children's scooter that said, "This product moves when used."

A $100 third prize went to Ann Marie Taylor of Camden, S.C., who submitted a warning from a digital thermometer that said, "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."

The personal hygiene label, btw, was on a toilet brush.

Whole story, courtesy of The Washington Times, is here.

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