Wash clothes, not body, wacky warning advises
Saturday, the 6th of January 2007. 4:20pm (AEDT)
Wacky warning ... DO NOT put any person in this washer. (Image: M-LAW)
A warning label advising against climbing into a washing machine has won the 10th annual Wacky Warning Label contest.
The contest, run by American lobby group the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, aims to "reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products".
The winning label, on a laundromat washing machine, advises: "Do not put any person in this washer".
Second place went to a motor manufacturer who warned "Never use a lit match to check fuel level."
Other winners included a lotto ticket advising "do not iron", an instruction on a mobile phone saying "Don't try to dry your phone in a microwave oven" and this warning on a Yellow Pages: "Please do not use this directory while operating a moving vehicle".
ABC 6-1-7
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1822437.htm
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Baby put through airport X-ray
December 21, 2006 - 9:48AM
A woman mistakenly put her one-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child on the carry-on baggage screening monitor and immediately pulled him out, the Los Angeles Times reported for a story in Wednesday's editions.
The infant was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he did not receive a dangerous dose of radiation.
"This was an innocent mistake by an obviously inexperienced traveller," said Paul Haney, deputy executive director of airports and security for the city's airport agency.
The incident happened early on Saturday, airport officials said.
Haney said in 1988, an infant in a car seat went through an X-ray machine at the Los Angeles airport.
AP
SMH 22-12-6
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/babys-xray-screen/2006/12/21/1166290649154.html
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Flatulent passenger grounds US flight
Thursday, The 7th of December 2006. 9:00am (AEDT)
It may be one problem US airline security officials never envisioned - a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odours from her flatulence.
The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington DC, a spokeswoman for Nashville's airport, Lynne Lowrance, says.
Other passengers reported the odour of burnt matches, but the woman was not forthcoming when asked about it, Ms Lowrance says.
"Of course, she was scared and embarrassed but all the passengers had to disembark, all the luggage had to be searched, a canine team was brought in, and about three hours were consumed in sorting out the situation," she said.
The woman was not allowed back on the flight and barred from flying on American Airlines, Ms Lowrance says.
"Since there was no malice involved and the incident was accidental, she was not charged with anything," she said.
Passengers are permitted four books of paper safety matches on a plane but cannot light them during flight, Ms Lowrance says.
"I've had calls from people all over the country about this and I don't have the answer to this problem," she said.
- Reuters
ABC 7-12-6
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1806055.htm
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Fed-up mum gets hyperactive son arrested
December 6, 2006 - 2:08PM
A fed-up US mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas present early.
The mother in Columbia, South Carolina, called police on Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy hand-held video game player from its hiding place at his grandmother's house next door and played it.
He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the local police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.
"It was only to teach my son a lesson. He's been going through life doing things ... and getting away with it," said the boy's mother, Brandi Ervin.
Police did not release the boy's name.
The mother said her son had been diagnosed in the past year with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but that his medicine does not seem to help.
She said he faces an expulsion hearing at his school tomorrow.
Rock Hill Police Capt. Mark Bollinger said the boy took a swing at a police officer assigned to the school last month. He has been suspended from school since then.
The boy's case will be presented to Department of Juvenile Justice officials in York County, who will decide what happens to him, Bollinger said.
His mother hopes he can attend a program that will finally scare him straight.
"It's not even about the Christmas present," she said. "I only want positive things out of it."
AP
SMH 6-12-6
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/fedup-mum-gets-hyperactive-son-arrested/2006/12/06/1165081000210.html
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Bad Goofy gets it
October 16, 2006 - 11:03AM
The Walt Disney Co said it has taken "appropriate action" against employees at its Paris theme park who were caught simulating sex while dressed as Disney characters in a digital video that has received wide attention on the internet.
Disney would not say whether it had dismissed any of the costumed employees featured in the grainy video, which appears to have been shot with a hidden camera at a backstage dressing room at Disneyland Resort Paris.
"The behaviour shown on the video is unacceptable and inexcusable," Disney said in a statement.
"The video was taken in the backstage area not accessible to guests. Appropriate action has been taken to deal with the cast members involved."
The video shows Minnie Mouse struggling to free herself as she is grabbed from behind by Goofy and then a giant snowman.
Reuters
SMH 29-10-6
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/bad-goofy-gets-it/2006/10/16/1160850842310.html
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Navigation system directs driver into sand pile
Tuesday, The 10th of October 2006. 8:08pm (AEST)
An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system has ignored a motorway "closed for construction" sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road.
"The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site," a police spokeswoman said.
"His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand."
The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.
- Reuters
ABC 23-10-6
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759214.htm
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Jelly triggers German security alert
Tuesday, the 10th of October 2006. 9:49am (AEST)
A small pile of leftover jelly discarded beside the road after a wedding party caused a large-scale security alert in Germany with biochemical experts, firemen and police called in to investigate.
"Passers-by called police after finding a pool of a flabby red, orange and green substance on the roadside," a police spokesman in the eastern town of Halle said.
Fears of toxic waste led to the closure of a wide area after the emergency call on Sunday, and experts wearing chemical warfare suits spent two hours examining the gelatinous substance before deciding that it was jelly.
"The fire brigade always has to assume a worst-case scenario," a spokesman said.
"We conducted a variety of tests and figured out it was jelly."
He says the newly-wed groom, who was pulled out of bed at noon following a tip-off, confirmed that the jelly, known as Jell-O in the United States, was a party leftover and agreed to clean it up.
- Reuters
ABC 23-10-6
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759367.htm
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