I’m Bob Dorigo Jones.
Here’s the easiest question you’ll get all day.
If you cover both ears with your hands, is it harder to hear the sounds around you?
That’s a silly question, I know. But think about that as I read one of the labels we just discovered in our annual Wacky Warning Label Contest.
A Bluetooth headset that goes over both ears warns: “Use of a headset that covers both ears will impair your ability to hear other sounds.”
No kidding! But that’s really on a headset made by one of the most popular Bluetooth companies in America.
Now, I’m not making fun of the company. I’m showing what kind of warning labels we get when judges don’t throw out frivolous lawsuits.
Remember the lawsuit I mentioned last week where some lawyers sued the makers of Bluetooth headsets? Those lawyers agreed to a settlement that got them eight hundred and fifty thousands dollars, but which gave Americans who use those headsets nothing but more common sense warning labels.
Let’s be fair, wacky labels are funny, but the high cost of lawsuit abuse is no laughing matter.
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