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Most people know Tide Pods are not food and hair dryers should not be used while sleeping. At least, we really hope so. But judging by the disclaimers companies put on products, somebody out there definitely needed the reminder. So maybe it’s good they exist after all.
One Redditor asked users to share the dumbest warning labels they’ve ever seen, and the responses did not disappoint. We gathered some of the funniest and most ridiculous ones below. Scroll down to check them out.
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#1
There is a story behind every warning.
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#2
Warning: Do not hold wrong end of a chainsaw.
Silly safety warning people. Everyone knows the only way to use a chainsaw is attached to your stump of a right hand as a weapon.
#3
I saw one for a Black & Decker cordless drill that said 'Not to use as dental drill'.
Eugene the Jeep 1 day ago
That just sounds like something Big Dentistry would say to keep getting your money.
#5
Bottom of a skateboard:
"Warning: This product moves when used.".
#6
"Warning: Cape is not a flying device."
Bought it anyway.
#7
I saw a diagram on a riding lawnmower showing you how to **not drive over children**.
#8
On a microwave: Not suitable for drying pets.
Auntriarch 1 day ago
There was a story (no idea if true or not) of a farmer's wife who was accustomed to reviving lambs in the warmth of the Aga oven, not realising that microwave ovens aren't the same principle.
#9
I saw a knife set a while back that had a great typo warning: "Keep out of children."
At least I think it's a typo. I guess it's a pretty good warning too.
#10
At a zoo for a lion exhibit. " Do not pet ".
David Paterson 1 day ago
At a zoo for a Tasmanian Devil exhibit. Did not have a "do not pet" sign, and should have!
#12
On a stroller: "Do not fold with child inside".
#14
The Nissian commercial comes to mind.
**Fantasy. Do not attempt. Cars can't jump on trains.**
The Goo King 1 day ago
That was a "We have already made the ad, but now the lawyers have seen it" moment.
#15
The bucket of pickles at Chick-Fil-A warns against letting toddlers drown in the pickle juice. There's a diagram showing a kid with his head stuck in the bucket and arms flailing.
#16
Warning: contains peanuts
On a bag of peanuts.
Roxy222uk 1 day ago
Sometimes I find the energy to repeat myself. I don’t know about the US but in the UK and the EU there are 14 common allergens that HAVE to be labelled in bold on ingredients lists. I find it remarkable that people find that completely acceptable but think the law has gone made when it still holds true if someone is buying ‘just’ a container of that allergen.
#18
I once read a warning on a can of electrical contact cleaner to the effect of *"If you are blind or cannot read English do not use this product until the warnings have been explained to you!"* If I'm blind or can't read English, how the hell am I reading that? And how many blind people are using aerosol contact cleaner?
#19
On a book: Once opened keep refrigerated.
Lost Panda 1 day ago (edited)
Was it a book of the comedic genre? Because I feel like I saw that on a Futurama title card before too
#20
On my French press coffee pot: "Boiling water and children should be kept apart.".
#21
That truck commercial from a year back or so that showed the truck "skiing" down a mountain doing jumps and stuff. They had to put a warning at the bottom saying "Trucks cannot ski. Do not try this.".
#22
I worked in the kitchen of a jail once and some of the boxes of food said "not meant for human consumption".
#23
On Ellio's pizza: "CAUTION: Product becomes hot when cooked."
Beak Hookage 1 day ago
There's a brand of noodles I came across with the warning label CONTENTS WILL BE HOT AFTER HEATING. Gee, thanks for letting me know.
#24
Once in college i saw a box of split firewood at walmart, the box had a warning label that said something along the lines of ""this product contains carbon, a substance known to the state of California to cause cancer"
WTH? techincally we are all carbon based...
Toujin C'Thlu 1 day ago
Unfortunately, that's one of the labeling laws in California. Everything that can potentially cause cancer must be pointed out on warning labels
#25
More of a sign I guess.
Beak Hookage 1 day ago
I've seen another version of this which also has some really small text saying ALSO, THE BRIDGE IS OUT.
#26
On a kids plastic blow-up chair: "Do not iron".
#27
My parents test-drove a car that had a little hutch in the center console with the label: "Do not put your hamburger in here." Gotta love America!
#28
My parents had this automatic shower cleaner thing in their shower. You hang it up, and press a button to make it spray out shower cleaner. It had a label that said "not to be used as body wash."
I was disappointed, since I was really looking forward to using shower cleaner with bleach as a nice, scrubbing body wash.
#29
On the manual for a portable projector: 'do not put in bath tub' with a drawing of a huge bathtub filled with water and huge X over it.
#30
Disclaimer: I did not see this, but a friend of mine told me the following warning he saw.
**Tl;Dr:** Warning of "Do Not Eat" on a brick of C4.
His unit was deployed in Afghanistan and a Navy EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) team was going to dispose of captured weapons and ordinance. He had asked earlier if he could tag along the next time they were going to get rid of explosives.
As they piled the ordinance out, he and the EOD team start laying out C4 bricks. He opens the crate of C4, on the box there is a date of 1969 and the warning: Do Not Eat. Every brick contains the same warning "Do Not Eat". I guess someone found grey play-doh appetizing at some point during Vietnam?
#33
Chemist here.
Do not pipette by mouth.
Stephanie L Thesing 1 day ago
For reference, back in the long-ago time of the 80’s in a laboratory setting, with the little glass pipettes that we’d collect blood in, we had a long thin rubber tube with little plastic attachments at either end. Put the pipette in one end, the other end you’d blow in to express the blood into a different container to analyze. It was always said not to inhale rather than blow, but to be honest, you’d need a helluva lotta suction to get the blood all the way back up the rubber tube and into your mouth. The practice of mouth-pipetting was eventually done away with for safety purposes, but I still remember having the long tube curled up in my lab coat pocket with my pens and measuring tape. :)
#34
On a windshield shade:
"Do not operate vehicle with shade in place."
Maryann Mullin 1 day ago
I'm so short it generally makes zero difference what position the shade is in.
#35
Not so much a warning, but the instructions on a pain relief gel I once bought read "after applying to the affected area, wash your hands. Unless the affected area is your hands."
Jan Rosier 1 day ago (edited)
yeah, found out the reason for this warning the hard way... rubbed my dad's back and then went for a pee without washing my hands. We were on holiday next to Semois river at the time. Started to walk towards the river, but then the sensation kicked in, I think I would have outrun Husein Bolt for the last 100 meters, straight into the river to sit down.
#37
This one is pretty dumb.
Kristiina Männiste 1 day ago
I had never wanted to insert the finger into the bottle opening before. But now that I have seen this...
#38
Not sure if this counts but on the back of the cards in electronic monopoly it specifies that they aren't real mastercards and you can use them at real stores.....seriously?
#42
"WARNING: PIPE" on the pipe itself.
Chris England 1 day ago
A warning for anybody digging in the area after the pipe had been buried?
#44
On the tsa's website it explicitly says not to put a child in a car seat through the x ray machine.
#45
My new modem warned me that just having it wasn't enough to give you internet, you had to have a provider...
David Paterson 1 day ago
I know some older people who would need this warning. You actually need four things: modem, provider, and the other two.
#48
I once had a stain remover, and warning label said "May cause stains".
#49
Road is slippery when wet.
#50
On a box of eggs: Warning! Contains egg.
#52
On an infant onesie: keep away from fire.
How else do you dry a baby?
David Paterson 1 day ago
This is a type of clothing classified as "styled to reduce risk". This means "doesn't catch fire easily but extremely dangerous if it does catch fire".
#53
Warning: poison do not eat.
David Paterson 1 day ago
More information needed. Many (not all) poisons can be eaten in small quantities.
#54
Warning: barbed wire may cause serious injury.
The sign was less visible than the barbed wire was...
#55
Litrerally ten seconds ago I saw a package of pre cooked chicken marked with "Don't feed it to the fox". This whole fox nonsense has gone way too far.
#56
Warning label on my hairdryer: Do not use in bear feet.
Yes, that is how it was spelled.
#58
On a packet of over-the-counter sleeping pills:
"Warning- may cause drowsiness".
David Paterson 1 day ago
This makes sense. "Sleep" and "drowsiness" are not closely related. "Drowsiness" is a euphemism for "zonked". Benzodiazepines are sleeping tablets that do not cause drowsiness. Antihistamines (eg. In Demazin) do cause drowsiness.
#59
I used to play Airsoft and some of the guns had a poorly translated warning label that stated "Don't point at the creature".
#62
Seen a 'do not turn over' warning on the bottom of a pizza box.
ETA: Don't worry, I'd already eaten the pizza so it was okay :).
#64
I wouldnt call it a warning "label" but the road sign in front of my house says "do not pass when incoming traffic is present". I see it everyday and lose just a little more of my faith in humanity...
#65
Warning: Cruise control does not mean the RV will drive itself.
David Paterson 1 day ago
There's a story behind this warning that I've heard. Perhaps apocryphal. Adaptive cruise control could just about be designed these days to allow a vehicle to drive itself, but car manufacturers don't want that.
#66
On a milk carton. "Warning: contains milk"...
#67
Working in a lab and seeing on every acid (hydrochloric, acidic, sulfuric, etc.): Warning, may contain acid.
Fellfromthemoon 1 day ago
The colored (usually red) warning pictograms help to recognize the potential danger even before one could read the labels. Fortunately, carbonic acid doesn't need to be labelled as corrosive.
#68
Do it yourself breathalyser that says "Do not use breathalyser results to assist in your decision whether to drive or not".
It was printed on the back of a breathalyser from a company called "backtrack". I decided not to purchase the device because of the stupidity of the warning.
Tim Fawcett 1 day ago
Legal a**e-covering so they don't get dragged into court when you get pulled over and over the limit.
#69
Dr.pepper cans used to say "warning: contents under pressure" its pop... that's kind of a no brainer...
Liliana Spiro 1 day ago
So, like a genie bottle but David Bowie and Freddie Mercury pop up? I'm intrigued... ;)
#71
On window air conditioner:
**WARNING: BE SURE AIR CONDITIONER DOES NOT FALL OUT OF WINDOW. MAINTAIN A FIRM GRIP WHEN INSTALLING AND REMOVING AIR CONDITIONER.**.
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Lost Panda 1 day ago
Okay, so you read them. Now remember that for every warning label you see anywhere, that means that a significant amount of people attempted to do exactly that, and that my little pandas is how warning labels are born
Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
And every law has a dumb reason too, which is why it is illegal in Virginia for you to walk your lion without a leash.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 day ago
This was a typo rather than inherently stupid, but it was still funny. Hotel room door had your standard evacuation route map, and also a list of instructions including "IN CASE OF FIRE, WARM THE RECEPTION DESK". 30 years later and I still chuckle at the memory.
Lost Panda 1 day ago
Okay, so you read them. Now remember that for every warning label you see anywhere, that means that a significant amount of people attempted to do exactly that, and that my little pandas is how warning labels are born
Lee Gilliland 1 day ago
And every law has a dumb reason too, which is why it is illegal in Virginia for you to walk your lion without a leash.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 day ago
This was a typo rather than inherently stupid, but it was still funny. Hotel room door had your standard evacuation route map, and also a list of instructions including "IN CASE OF FIRE, WARM THE RECEPTION DESK". 30 years later and I still chuckle at the memory.
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