Made in China?

Aren't any of these products safety tested?

@MissPiss:
Like those fake iPods (mp3/mp4 players as they call them) that have batteries that are NOT safety tested an can explode

@AppleAlex: yes, yes they are...

We're in product-Hell, and just don't realize it.

Just curious, has there ever been a fire-hazard alert for a fire extinguisher?

If they are made in China its going a flames...@AppleAlex: If they are made in China its going a flames...and that's after testing

@legwork: [www.metro.co.uk]

[www.cpsc.gov]

A lot of these cribs seem to have this problem. It was one of the reasons why we specifically did not purchase a crib with a drop side on it.

The reason no-one gets canned for this stuff is that bosses fear that they will spontaneously combust if they say "You're fired!".

Product recalls are Unconstitutional and violate company's rights to sell their products on a free market.

Instead of a heavy handed government the free market provides for shoddily made products. Companies that make dangerous or bad merchandise simply get weeded out in natural competition efficiently without bureaucratic mixups to infringe on your freedoms.

@Steve Pan:

Too bad the free market only corrects itself after a few babies are killed.

I'm not American and haven't really studied the constitution but I don't remember anywhere in that document that promises businesses the right to sell crappy products.

Troll?

Did anybody check out that Macy's one??

HOODIES WERE RECALLED JUST FOR HAVING DRAWSTRINGS.
BECAUSE APPARENTLY DRAWSTRING HOODS ARE DEADLY NOW.

According to the linked PDF on that page, due to the fact that a total of 22 kids died between 1985-1999 from drawstrings on their clothes, the CPSC thinks they're deadly. I'm sure 3x as many kids died in that period from getting tangled in their own shirts but they aren't mandating that kids go topless. What the HELL?

How did my generation (I'm 25) ever survive before they had outlet covers, drawer locks, cabinet locks, childproof doorknobs, velcro hoodies... WTF.

@andrewe: Nah, just Facebook.

"Rider can lose control of and/or be ejected from the snowmobile." - Don't all snowmobiles have this defect if you don't know what you're doing?

@West Coast Secessionist: I hate to tell you, but they had outlet covers, drawer and cabinet locks and childproof doorknobs when you were an infant.

I own one of those Ionic Salt lamps, my mother-in-law bought me one for Christmas. Looks like I will be giving that 800 number a call on Monday.

@andrewe:
It violates the spirit of Free Enterprise endowed in the Constitution by the founding fathers, who were btw almost all strongly in favor of strong property rights and laissez-faire capitalism.

@AppleAlex: Chinese product safety testing is basically a cash transaction without any product testing.

@Steve Pan:

I think a person's right to life or liberty trumps the spirit of free enterprise. Using your argument things like government mandated seatbelts, meat inspection, and legal drinking ages are also unconstitutional.

@Steve Pan: So it's not OK to alert people of these unsafe conditions/products? I guess in your perfect world, every person would have to become an expert in every field, and completely take apart everything they own to identify a possible flaw? And everything we eat we will have to run cultures on?

Are you serious? The free market DOES provide this. How about American Peanut Corp. Or Topps meat. Do you remember them? The companies that went bankrupt after consumers found out they distributed tainted products?

@BayardMozie: According to the full recall:

"Hazard: Bolts on the rear suspension can break causing the rail tip to become dislodged and interfere with the snowmobile's track. This can cause the track to lock up and the rider to lose control of the snowmobile, posing a risk of injury."

That's a key detail left out of the summary. But yeah, replace 'breaking bolts' with 'alcohol' and you've just described all snowmobiles.

I read way too quickly and saw "Knorr Chicken Vegetable with Pasta kosher soup mix-Fire Hazard".

@andrewe:
A person's 'right to life' is nothing more than a glib collectivist strawman to infringe on other's property rights.

@Steve Pan:

Personally I think the right to life is the most basic and important guarantee an individual can receive. On the other hand property rights are all in the news lately. DRM, RIAA, children being shot while mistakenly trespassing. The list goes on.

How many laws must businesses adhere to? Thousands? Millions? Are they unconstitutional too?

You fail to prove your point.

@AppleAlex: Yes, they are tested. How do you think they knew to issue a recall of the product?

@Coles_Law: Hahahahaha.

Nah, I don't think there's even a heartburn hazard.

@andrewe: @WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEmSteveDave:

don't feed the troll

@andrewe:
A right to life is a destructive positive right while property rights are negative rights that exist but do not infringe on anyone's pursuit of life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness.

Educate yourself on the basics first before you try to smear my logic.

This pretty much makes me not want to buy anything ever again.

@Steve Pan:

@West Coast Secessionist: Even if your parents didn't use them child safety products existed when you were a baby. The existed for me and my sister and we're 20 and 25 respectively.

I don't understand the hate for child safety products anyways. Most of these products come from a genuine need. Maybe not a need to protect from death but from bumps, bruises, and broken bones. Babies and toddlers have no understanding of danger; they have an instinctive love of novelty. They will drink floor cleaner and lick electrical outlets because it is new and different, not like playing with the same old safe toys.

@Steve Pan: Can we bag that and sell it for fertilizer?

@Steve Pan: What logic?

@MooseOfReason:
Aren't they tested BEFORE release to avoid a recall?

@Steve Pan: Educate myself on your logic?, what logic?

@BustangBetty: Is it cool-looking? They seem neat. Like a lava lamp, but with a rock.

@WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEmSteveDave: Control + Click + Save Image As

@Laura Northrup: Right Click + Save Image As

Woot, took me 1 step less.

@legwork:
Back in the day, IIRC, they were filming the TV show Coach, and they used a fire extinguisher for some reason, which actually the propellant and material cought on fire and caused a huge flame up. It wasn't a grease fire or anything. It burnt one of the stars of the show.

We all need to be protected from ourselves. Perhaps 'Personal Plastic Safety Encapsulation Bubbles' should be issued. Careful eating your tapioca, you might slip and jam that fork in your eye.

@AppleAlex: I'm sure they don't test each product, but check several in a batch.

@Kevin Wolf: She might be using a computer which uses only one mouse button. I do myself, sometimes.

@Steve Pan: 1/10. I only gave you the 1 because you got a few bites, and for introducing the terms positive and negative rights (albeit incorrectly) at your second attempt.

Please try harder.

@theczardictates: Maybe "Steve Pan" is a Facebook 'bot? Because it's difficult for a human to write so spectacularly incoherently in such a rambling and pointless fashion.

Watch:

The rights of the positive freedoms are of the negatives to the point of Free Market consequentialism that exists for the right to life in comparison to glib strawmen! My logic is incredible, my defense is impregnable, you just can't understand it because I'm THAT much smarter than you.

See, it just doesn't have that "throw the transmission into reverse on the highway" stupidity to it. You really need a 'bot to do it right.

@West Coast Secessionist: I'll be 32 in a little over a week, and I'm convinced my mother's idea of a child safety product was a playpen with sides too high for me to climb over. As to the rest, well, I couldn't get out of my playpen to mess with it, could I?

@Steve Pan: Show me where corporations' existence is sanctified in the Constitution.
It's not.
So, using your logic, we must disincorporate every one of them!

Thanks for your brilliant contribution. You'll go far!

@captainpicard: But it's so stoopid, and even used his real name. Can't wait until his next potential employer Googles him and sees this brilliant example of his rational thinking and says, "I need this!
...Or not.

@West Coast Secessionist: My dad's idea of child proofing was to make sure my left hand held a glass of water (instead of the customary 100-proof vodka) whenever my right hand held a lighter.

I'm going up to my attic to inhale as much asbestos as I can without passing out. Let's see those flammable objects beat that!