Xicar and stupid people.....

[TheVitaleMob]

XI products are sharp cutting instruments! Please keep all XI products out of reach of children and irresponsible adults. Damage as a result of misuse may void your warranty.

It's Sharp!
Do not test the blades' sharpness with your thumb, it's dumb! You can't feel the edge on the sharpest blades, so you will cut yourself before it "feels" sharp. The proper way to test the sharpness of any blade is to slice a shaving off the side of a lightweight piece of paper (like this one). Angle your blade edge 45 degrees against the paper's edge, and slice. If it cut's it is sharp. If it tears, it needs buffing.


Beautiful!! Now I know that I'm not alone in my hatred of stupid people.

 

[sack]

Having to put a warning on any cutter is sad, but i guess the seller/manufacturer has to protect themselves. What idiot would put their finger in the cutter, maybe a drunken person. SAD!

 

[Strayvector]

Didn't Michael Jordan cut his finger on one of these cutters a few years back?

 

[Newfie]

To put warnings like that in something like this is a result of our society. Remember the lawsuit McDonalds lost with the hot coffee incident?? Look on their cups now. It gives a warning saying the contents are hot. That bitch would have gone in and bitched out the staff if her fuggin' coffee wasn't hot for Crissakes.

As for testing the edge of the cutter with a piece of paper, that ain't too bright either. If your wife or someone you know is a hair dresser or a seamstress (or maybe you are), try "testing" their scissors with a piece of paper and see if they won't stab you with them.

 

[stewa070]

Not to start a riot, and not to profess that I feel that case was just, but everybody should know the facts. The facts were as follos:

McDonalds had memos stating to keep costs down, keep the cofee at X degrees (far hotter than most tastes) to discourage folks from getting a refill.

In another effort to keep down the costs McDonalds used thinner styrofoam than normal, which made the coffee less insulated and feel hotter.

Finally, this lady was simply one of many lawsuits for the same thing. McDonald's had a payout formula for severe burns due to coffee. This lady just wouldn't play ball and they got popped by a jury for it.

In the end, McDonald's knew that what they were doing could be, and was characterized by a jury, deemed irresponsible. And in an effor to keep costs down they pressed on down a dangerous slope. They just got popped for it.

I don't profess that this lady should not have thought "hey I like coffee hot" and thus be rewarded for it, but a lot of times a big lawsuit like this is necessary to keep big business in check. Unfortunately we and the media tend to categorize the plaintiff as a money hungry litigant, and maybe that's true some of the time. But a lot of the time a big case becomes a big case not because the plaintiff is greedy, but because the defendant needs to get spanked. How many times did merchandise fall from Home Depot's super-tall shelves before somebody quit taking the meager settlement check and opt for trial? How many trucking companies' drivers injured people because they were under the influence of some narcotic (and I'm not picking on truckers- my family is full of em, thus I know the tricks to staying on the road longer)

My point is this. Don't let what the media tells you be the deciding factor in whether someone got justice or just go rich.



And yes I feel that it's unfortunate that the law has to protect certain idiots that God and Darwin clearly had other plans for.

If you stick your finger in a cigar cutter you deserve to lose it. Here's your sign!

 

[smokelaw1]

THANKS! I am so tired of rehashing that case every time it is used as an example of litigation run wild!

There are better examples out there! Just run them through Snopes or something before you use them, as a decent number of them are urban legends.

 

[SMSUCigarguy]

Not to start a riot, and not to profess that I feel that case was just, but everybody should know the facts. The facts were as follos:

McDonalds had memos stating to keep costs down, keep the cofee at X degrees (far hotter than most tastes) to discourage folks from getting a refill.

In another effort to keep down the costs McDonalds used thinner styrofoam than normal, which made the coffee less insulated and feel hotter.

Finally, this lady was simply one of many lawsuits for the same thing. McDonald's had a payout formula for severe burns due to coffee. This lady just wouldn't play ball and they got popped by a jury for it.

In the end, McDonald's knew that what they were doing could be, and was characterized by a jury, deemed irresponsible. And in an effor to keep costs down they pressed on down a dangerous slope. They just got popped for it.

I don't profess that this lady should not have thought "hey I like coffee hot" and thus be rewarded for it, but a lot of times a big lawsuit like this is necessary to keep big business in check. Unfortunately we and the media tend to categorize the plaintiff as a money hungry litigant, and maybe that's true some of the time. But a lot of the time a big case becomes a big case not because the plaintiff is greedy, but because the defendant needs to get spanked. How many times did merchandise fall from Home Depot's super-tall shelves before somebody quit taking the meager settlement check and opt for trial? How many trucking companies' drivers injured people because they were under the influence of some narcotic (and I'm not picking on truckers- my family is full of em, thus I know the tricks to staying on the road longer)

My point is this. Don't let what the media tells you be the deciding factor in whether someone got justice or just go rich.



And yes I feel that it's unfortunate that the law has to protect certain idiots that God and Darwin clearly had other plans for.

If you stick your finger in a cigar cutter you deserve to lose it. Here's your sign!

I second that emotion, man! I work in medical malpractice defense work and we see our share of docs that should have been more careful and needed to "get popped". At the same time though, there are an equal number of greedy plaintiffs that don't realise that a bad outcome isn't necessarily negligence. It's a bad outcome despite the doctors' best efforts.

Besides, lawsuits keep me clothed, housed and fed!