Robbie is very pleased with his new DeLonghi Mica Panel heater. Attached to the cord, though, is a tag the size of a small flag covered with warnings. This festive decoration exists to cover the company in case a customer does something stupid with their heater. That makes sense. Robbie wonders, though: at what point do we accept the limits of human stupidity and stop warning against every thing that could possibly go wrong?

He writes:

When I pulled the heater out of the box and unwrapped the cord, I was surprised to find this absurdly massive warning label attached to the power cord. Seriously, this thing is the size of a small legal contract. I understand the need for warning labels, but this is just ridiculous. At some point the heater manufacture needs to realize that increasing the size of the warning label will not stop people from being idiots.

I will say though, the heater that came attached to my new legal contract is working marvelously.

Just be sure to read all of the warnings that came with the heater! Or is it all of the warnings on the tag that happened to include the heater?

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