Improving Product Safety...

With aspirin leading the way, more and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

Go to any typical consumer household and you'll note most of the products- food, medicine, compact discs, appliances, furnitue- are covered with bite marks, as though the house is infested with crazed beavers. The floor will be gritty with little chips of consumer teeth.

Many consumers are also getting good results by stabbing their products with knives. (Note: this practice is not recommended...)

Fifty-eight percent of all serious household accidents result from consumers assaulting packaging designed to improve consumer safety...




Thanks to Dave Barry for helping us celebrate our 500th post...