Comments on: “In case you weren’t sure how to use a staircase” https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carl Starrett https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35584 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:34:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35584 When riding the tram at Disneyland from the parking structure to the front gate, an taped recorded warns you to stay seated until the tram comes to a “full and complete” stop. Is a full stop somehow different than a complete stop?

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35417 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:29:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35417 The NYC restaurant sign might make sense since sighted and blind people go out for meals together and since sighted people can recommend restaurants to blind people. I still think the all-time most disturbing use of Braille is on the keyboard of a drive-up ATM.

]]> By: Basilio Alferow https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35416 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:24:51 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35416 One would suppose that anyone literate enough to read sucha warning would know the way to extinguish a candle. Which brings to mind the sign seen in a NYC restaurant window: Braille menus available.

]]> By: “To extinguish candle, blow out flame”. https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35393 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:19:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35393 […] comments last week, reader Richard Harrison recalled his favorite warning label, on a candle from […]

]]> By: Richard A Harrison https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35015 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35015 Still my favorite wacky warning ever: A label on a candle for sale in a local Target store said “To extinguish candle, blow out flame.”

Think about that. And what do you suppose the universe of people might be that would both (a) comprehend the word “extinguish” and simultaneously (b) not know how to put out a candle?

]]> By: Frank https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-35003 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:07:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-35003 These signs are not that unusual and this ‘For Your Safety’ instruction is actually good advice which may prevent some injuries if heeded.

Two drunks are staggering along railroad tracks.
One complains “Boy, these steps are steep.”
The other replies “It’s not the steep steps, it’s the low handrails.”

]]> By: Daille Nation https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-34937 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:43:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-34937 Wonder why they didn’t put a picture of the rails on the notice.

Made certain assumptions didn’t they?

]]> By: Todd Rogers https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/in-case-you-werent-sure-how-to-use-a-staircase/comment-page-1/#comment-34926 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:57:33 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7877#comment-34926 This is life imitating art, The Far Side style.

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