I suppose one has to expect this in a time when the number one indoor sport in this country is suing people.

I ordered a new Uncle Mike's #3 pocket holster--my fourth in sixteen years. The old one was still serviceable, but every three or four years they get a little threadbare at the muzzle end and the last one had a bit of barrel peeping through at the bottom.

It may be this was true a few years ago, but I don't recall it: there was a manual with it that had nineteen paragraphs of safety warnings.
Granted, this was a generic booklet for many of their holsters, but much of the safety material seemed to center on not trying to use a gun for which the buyer's holster was not designed. And stuff like seeing that the thumb break retaining strap was secured.

The pocket holster has no strap, belt clips, flywheels, etc. It's as simple as a holster can get. It works very well on days when my recently-discovered Nemesis isn't a good fit for the pants pocket du jour. I've used these things for a long time.

I was waiting to read that I also should not run with scissors or play with matches.

Are all manufacturers these days terrified of being sued by cretins?

Guess so.

Sad.

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Oh well, what the hell.

All them Harvard lawyers can't make a living misreading the US Constitution and serving as federal judges. Some of them have to find other ways to use their fancy degrees. Thinking up warnings to tell people not to put their heads in plastic bags, and not to put their gun barrel in their mouth while riding on a 4 wheeler, and not to use tubs of gasoline to put out their matches and cigarettes with. Also like the other post on here with a sign telling people not to drink out of the urinals.

I mean if you don't explain these things, the courts will of course find you liable for the stupid acts of the idiots in our population.

Of course if Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest is correct, we are hindering evolution with such warnings.

I actually ran with a pair of scissors, one in each hand, in front of my teenage daughter.
I like to live on the edge.
Jim

All my life I have wanted to run with sissors, but could never work up the courage. Maybe someday I will.

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Can my S&W Mdl 10 shoot +P

Well now pilgrim, you'd been in a heap of trouble if observed by one of them there Dr's of juris prudence.

Lately many barristers have been joining churches and aiding ministers free of charge. You can recognize them as they writh and rattle as the minister pulls them out of the box and holds them aloft for all to see.

Imagine the disclaimer on a Fleet Enema.

NOW THAT IS FUNNY !!!!!!

Yeah, but not the Warren Zevon themed adventure I was hoping for.

It works. What hit the fan while hiding in Honduras?

Hey! It was Mexico, and I was really drunk, ok?
I didn't think I'd ever get the the taste of that giant breath freshener out of my mouth.

Careful, Mike, you could put your eye out with that holster!

Personally, I think the reason for the extensive warnings on your holster are not because Uncle Mike is afraid of being sued by cretins. I'm sure he has a couple of nephews with J.D.'s who can take care of any trouble ol' Mike gets into.

Rather, I think Uncle Mike has observed the general state of humanity these days, and for the sake of "loving thy neighbor," has taken the time to explain fully how to use such a complex and ahead-of-its-time product like a holster.

Most folks these days need to be told, for example, that the skinny end goes in first.

Sad, yes. Baffling, um hum.

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Ukraine -- now more than ever

Since when do people need/read instructions?

And yet scizzors do not come with safety warnings.

I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT, MISTER!!!

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Why, I aughta.....

I always get a chuckle from a product warning that says: "This product may cause a (you pick it) certain hazard in California". Guess if you're in another state, that hazard does not exist!

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gone

I am not so sure----Pesonally, I think Kalifornicaters have lost the ability to reason and think.
I know, I know we got some that live there - but - they need to leave. they are gettin a bad reputation.
Blessings

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TEXAS, by GOD

I would have thought that Uncle Mike would have been arrested and in lockup after all the pockets he has been in. Pervert!

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Still Running Against the Wind

The words that come to mind are "The Fleet's in!"

I guess they would warn the cretins who had heard the phrase "fleet of foot" and misunderstood. Or "fleet vehicle".

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Oh well, what the hell.

C = cover

Y = yer

A = arse

!

Or, heaven forbid, "Fleet Week!"

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Ukraine -- now more than ever

Could be. More likely "not to be taken orally"

I always wondered why the battery in my car had a warning not to drink the fluid. Somebody somewhere at some time must have.

In college we made a number of signs that we placed on the walls in the hall of the dorm. One of the was a No Cretins sign and we were asked to remove it. I don't recall what else we put up but don't think any of it was vulgar, just random and arcane stuff, though I was a bit surprised that was the only one specifically called out. Not sure if they didn't understand the others or didn't know what a cretin is.

Before you bash the lawyer that does his or her job to avoid being disciplined for not taking the case and sues on behalf of the idiot who misused the simple product, please think about the idiot who misused the simple product.

I work for lawyers....
Hey, somebody has to know that the water goes on the outside of the boat.

sorry caj

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Halfway and one more step

I'm not bashing lawyers. I'm bashing those idiots who made the extreme caution so prevalent these days by suing, hoping for a big settlement, after they did stupid stuff.

I just think it's ridiculous to buy a knife and have it come with a warning that says "Knives are sharp and can cut you. Don't throw your Zippy knife at small children or pets." Or the ones that warn you not to use your belt sander while taking a shower. Et cetera.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Being a product safety expert for 32 years opened my eyes to a lot of the sheer lunacy going on out there.

Each and every one of those warnings exist because someone either died or sued someone else when they: dried their hair in the bathtub, forced an electrical plug into a receptacle upside down, used the car vac while driving, attempted a stunt seen on a car commercial, failed to realize that an axe blade may be sharp, didn't know that Planters Peanuts contain peanuts, or removed their mattress tag.
And, of course, fired their pistol with the magazine removed.

Not to mention the language issue. English/Spanish/French/Italian/Chinese/Japanese/Swahili, they all have to be included. Sometime in the early "aughts" someone realized that there were too many languages to address so it was decided to make all these warnings into pictograms.
And now, there is true equality. No one has any idea what the pictures mean in any language! But they are good for a laugh, in any language.

Not that it matters. I think that the explosion of warnings has made it such that no one reads any of it.

Now that I'm retired, I have a slightly different perspective...

I really like some of the warnings that are obviously a poor translation from the original language. They can be real funny at times. I do agree the pictures help with those ones.

I asked my boss once about a coworker that had a glass eye. I asked if he was running with scissors or got shot with a BB gun. To my surprise I learned his brother who also worked for us shot him in the eye with a BB gun.

Interesting.

I wonder if there is significantly less cancer in CA then other states?

Are their doctor's smarter than the rest?