Toilet Brush Warning Wins Consumer Award

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By DAVID N. GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer

DETROIT - The sign on the toilet brush says it best: "Do not use for personal hygiene."

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."

The $500 first prize went to Ed Gyetvai, of Oldcastle, Ontario, who submitted the toilet-brush label. 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."

This year's contest coincides with a drive by President Bush (news - web sites) and congressional Republicans to put caps and other limits on jury awards in liability cases.

"Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," said group President Robert Dorigo Jones. "From the moment we raise our head in the morning off pillows that bear those famous Do Not Remove warnings, to when we drop back in bed at night, we are overwhelmed with warnings."

The leader of a group that opposes the campaign to limit lawsuits admits that while some warning labels may seem stupid, even dumb warnings can do good.

"There are many cases of warning labels saving lives," said Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy in New York. "It's much better to be very cautious ... than to be afraid of being made fun of by a tort reform group."

The Wacky Warning Label Contest is in its eighth year.

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[Soback]

LOL, "...those warnings save lives..." Think about what retards lives those warnings save, I don't think I want to be anywhere within at least 100 miles of those retards because they are an obvious liability that will probably cause more people to lose their lives because of their actions...

It's like hearing about someone cleaning out a loaded gun and shooting themselfs... and public starts crying how guns are bad, I say give a gun to everyone, make it easier on the public, weed out the idiots...if you are so dumb as to take a thermometer out of your butt and stick it in your mouth, even after washing it, well then you deserve to die of some kind of infection...lol..that's why your butt hole is so far away from your mouth, lol that's how the nature intended it....

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too funny. and you know the only reason there are these warnings, is because some winner of the genetic lottery tried doing it.

do not use toilet brush for oral hygenic purposes... *shudders*

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Originally posted by Grayfox:

too funny. and you know the only reason there are these warnings, is because some winner of the genetic lottery tried doing it.

do not use toilet brush for oral hygenic purposes... *shudders*

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Yeah I can see it now someone trying to brush their teeth with the good ol' trusty toilet brush. Bleh....