Should Zip Ties (Cable Ties) Have a Warning Label?

[artdutra04]

I think the better question to ask is would warning labels actually protect people from themselves?

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

I think the better question to ask is would warning labels actually protect people from themselves?

That's only if they actually read them, understand them, and follow them.

No matter what you do and how well you try to protect them,
some people are just out there to be candidates for the Darwin Awards!

[dtengineering]

Zip ties don't bind people,
PEOPLE bind people.

Jason

[hipsterjr]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Personally, I'm against the use of warning labels in general. It's a slightly negative view, but the population issue would be solved if there were no more warning labels on anything... that would also raise the average IQ.

So, a "Modest Proposal" of sorts. I like the way you think. I believe that if you're not stupid with them, you can build half your robot from zip ties. (by the end of the championship at Atlanta, zip ties were holding half our bot together after getting beaten around ).

[wendymom]

We zip tied one of our students to a chair during dinner break after IRI. It was kinda funny...theres a picture somewhere.

(no students were harmed during this act of horseplay)

[Rickertsen2]

NO

[JohnBoucher]

They do make a tool specifically for removing cable ties without cutting the bundled wires or your bundled friends

http://www.actfs.com/CatalogProducts...ProductsID=173

[vivek16]

no. its like putting warning labels on knives. or fire. while they are useful they can be harmful in the hands of a stupid person.

-vivek

[zakk]

ah i agree with many of you about this subject, there shouldnt be warning labels, because it would bring up the price, and do you think that anybody ever reads the warning labels on stuff intentionally? and how many things that do have warning labels prevent people from doing stupid stuff with them?

but im not going to bash us special people out there, because i have a story too.
one time when i was probably about 7 i decided that zip ties resembled rings so i put them on ALL 10 OF MY FINGERS and pulled tight. long story short, my fingertips were turning purple and i nearly had to go to the emergency room, but thanks to papaw's knife, i didn't.