Today I was driving home from the grocery store and I pulled up behind a big dump truck filled to overflowing with rocks. On the back of the truck was displayed a large caution sign that read: "CAUTION! Stay 200 ft back. Not responsible for broken windshields." I stared at this sign in wonder. How can a person post a sign on their truck and assume that passes off the responsibility for them to purchase a cover for their truck? You hear of stories all the time where a rock falls off a truck and ends up crashing through some one's window and killing the driver. And I have personally experienced trying to dodge rocks the size of beach balls bouncing along the freeways. Posting a sign like that is like putting up a sign that says: "I'm an underage driver with no road experience, but I'm not responsible for any negligent driving. Just stay two blocks away from my vehicle."
Okay, maybe that's a little extreme. It just drives me nuts that our society is quickly coming to the conclusion that the written word can get them out of any legal difficulties. What happened to good old integrity? But it was probably begun by all those really dumb law-suits by people with no common sense that force iron manufacturers to exclaim: "Don't iron clothes while wearing them!" Or ceiling fans that warn you not to throw your baby into the ceiling fan. Or another favorite: a can of peanuts that has a nut allergy warning!?!?! As entertaining as reading these things can be, it doesn't bode very well for the intelligence of out culture.
I can just picture the Day of Judgement when someone says: "HEY! I don't have to suffer for all the stupid and wrong things I did my whole life! I signed a waiver!!!"
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