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Ms. Jenn
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 Posted: 07/07/05 - 07:56 Post subject: "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" Tags...
Haven't been used for 15 years  Don't buy a pillow or matress with one.
Humorous Article:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Columns/?article=mattress_tags
| Quote: | It's ridiculously easy to make fun of dumb laws and warning labels. Take these little gems:
In France, you can't name a pig Napoleon.
In Alaska, thou shalt not push a live moose from an airplane.
In Chico, California, you will be fined $500 for detonating a nuclear device.
Napoleon is dead, anyone who pushes a moose from a plane deserves whatever happens, and there will be no one to collect that $500 fine if someone drops a bomb on Chico.
See? I mocked without breaking a sweat. It's like pointing and laughing at Britney Spears every time she is photographed eating Cheetos. Come on! Where's the sport? There isn't much. In an era well-stocked with lawyers and lawmakers, it's just not hard to find examples of behavior that is criminalized when it probably shouldn't be.
What's harder is defending the most-mocked law in the history of the United States: the one that supposedly makes it a crime to rip a tag off a mattress or a pillow. While it is fun to pretend you're afraid the mattress and pillow police are coming to your house to bust you for removing the tag, here are some facts to dull the luster of this bit of comedic gold.
More silly laws
Chico: Home to fruits and nuts; no nuclear devices allowed
For starters, the tags no longer say it's a crime to remove them. Rather, they say, "THIS TAG MAY NOT BE REMOVED EXCEPT BY CONSUMER."
So if you have a pillow or a mattress that says, "DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW," you might want to think about replacing it because those tags haven't been used for more than 15 years. That's a really long time to have the same pillow, unless you like sleeping in the droppings of generations of dust mites.
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