I was a punk teenager at the time, but I inadvertently made nitroglycerin when I combined nitric acid and glycerin-- and got burns on my hands! That wasn't too bright.

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It really is amazing that they even have to make stickers like these to warn people of obvious dangers. The stickers always give me a good chuckle though!

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So you wake up one day thinking, "mowers are for grass" and then you hear on the news that some dude, who is now a bit less of a dude, because he lost his fingers, mostly due to trying to trim his hedges by lifting his lawn mower up about 3 feet to do it. I believe these stickers are from the handbook "Life For Dummies." People can be extremely stupid.

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ryan carter

Don't know for sure if true or not, but in 1987/88 while in MBA grad school @OSU-heard from college prof in class that two guys had lost their fingers/hands, etc from piccking up a mower-one on each side & trying to trim the top of the hedge with it-course it didn't work--but as story goes they then sued Murray Lawn Mower Co. for their loss AND WON big judgement--this is the origin of the safety(keep hands away,etc.) stickers we see today on mowers. The accident happened in the pre-warning sticker days. Also used to work for a company who manufactured trash trucks/compacters as engineer & sales. Our attorney advised us also that if you put too many warning stickers on-the arguement would be that if it were that dangerous, it was a tragedy waiting to happen and thus should not even be manufactured at all!!

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Unbelievable. The swimming pool driller's my fav.

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