Thread: Danger! Danger!
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Old October 20th 15, 04:02 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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Default Danger! Danger!

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 08:47:49 -0400, Duane
wrote:

On 31/08/2015 7:13 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:55:33 -0400, Duane
wrote:

On 27/08/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

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:


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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.

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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.



On the other hand, sometime it pays to pay attention to warnings. I
recently replaced my CO2 gizmo (I know, pretty technical term) and on a
ride I used it to fill someone's tube after a flat. It wasn't depleted
so I put it back in my bag with the CO2 cannister still attached
thinking that maybe he would need more later. Anyway, he didn't and the
next morning before going out on my ride I remember it and wanted to
remove the cannister. On my older one, I would just unscrew it. On
this one, when I did that it was like a pistol shot. The internals flew
out of the thing like a bullet. I was lucky that it flew away from me.
When I brought it back to the shop, they replaced it but I looked at
the fine print on the instructions and they warned to release the
pressure fully before disengaging. Sometime Danger! Danger! is real and
one should take precautions. Hmm. Maybe that's an object lesson.


In other words, you didn't bother to "read the manual" and were
rewarded for your efforts. That is hardly a description of a
"dangerous,dangerous" situation.

--
cheers,


What manual? It was a warning on the instruction sheet written in 2
point fonts. But thanks for pointing out what I already said. Isn't
that what the OP posted - that she was not believing what the warning
said? I'm just saying it pays to read it.


And it's good that it's there. The fact the lawyers have everyone
covering thei asses by putting warnings on everything have diluted the
things that really need warnings.


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