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Danger! Danger!
I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. -- `joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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