Idiot #2 This is a true story...

[Ol Smoke]

The year is 1995 in Ohio.  A middle aged man goes to an RV dealer and is looking to buy a motorhome.

During the course of the sale, the salesman tells the man that what's great about a motorhome is that

while you are driving down the road, you can make a sandwich or get a cold drink.  Unlike when pulling a

trailer, where you have to pull over and go back to the trailer and get something.  It is very handy when

everything is just behind you.  Even the toilet works while traveling.  The man was a college educated

professor who was retiring at the age of 55, and he decided he would buy the motorhome.

 

After a few weeks of test drives and figuring out the nuances of the motorhome he was ready for his first

trip.  So he loaded everything up and took off for parts unknown.  He was several hours out of town on a

freeway, when he decided he would make a sandwich and get something to drink.  So he set the cruise

control, and went back to the kitchen.  Suddenly the RV turned off the freeway and soared into a field and

landed on it's side.  Well the man was severely injured and the RV was a total loss.

 

He sued the dealership because he said, they said "he could get up and go into the kitchen and fix a sandwich

while he was driving down the road".

 

He won the case.

 

 

Now tell me how this idiot is correct in his thinking.  Because if you think he was correct,  you're an idiot.

 

 

Where has common sense gone to anyway?  Do we really need to have someone hold our hands while we

go through life? 

 

I saw a TV commercial where the disclaimer said that the "car pictured in the ad cannot fly".  Another ad

was pretty good showing a car, doing skateboard tricks.  Not once did I think that that car could do that.  But

underneath the message was a disclaimer, "Cars cannot do skateboard tricks"

 

Are people really this stupid?

 

Here is something that I find absolutely wrong, but no one puts a disclaimer under this product.

Lay's Potato Chips shows a great big bad of chips,  why isn't there a disclaimer saying this:

 

"Bag shown is not full of chips, it is barely half full of chips, the other half of the bag is full of air"

 

What about that?  We have laws here in the USA called the "Truth in advertising laws"  But no one follows them.

 

Have you noticed ads for medicines lately??  A 30 second ad has about 10 seconds of someone saying what the

medicine does for you.  The other 20 seconds is filled with a speed talker telling you about all the bad things it

does to you.  Now that is truth in advertising.

 

 

[yellow flash]

I know the rv story my dad told it to me when i was little kid, also other famous story from america is cat in oven ;/

[Kat0n]

The year is 1995 in Ohio.  A middle aged man goes to an RV dealer and is looking to buy a motorhome.

During the course of the sale, the salesman tells the man that what's great about a motorhome is that

while you are driving down the road, you can make a sandwich or get a cold drink.  Unlike when pulling a

trailer, where you have to pull over and go back to the trailer and get something.  It is very handy when

everything is just behind you.  Even the toilet works while traveling.  The man was a college educated

professor who was retiring at the age of 55, and he decided he would buy the motorhome.

 

After a few weeks of test drives and figuring out the nuances of the motorhome he was ready for his first

trip.  So he loaded everything up and took off for parts unknown.  He was several hours out of town on a

freeway, when he decided he would make a sandwich and get something to drink.  So he set the cruise

control, and went back to the kitchen.  Suddenly the RV turned off the freeway and soared into a field and

landed on it's side.  Well the man was severely injured and the RV was a total loss.

 

He sued the dealership because he said, they said "he could get up and go into the kitchen and fix a sandwich

while he was driving down the road".

 

He won the case.

 

 

Now tell me how this idiot is correct in his thinking.  Because if you think he was correct,  you're an idiot.

 

 

Where has common sense gone to anyway?  Do we really need to have someone hold our hands while we

go through life? 

 

He was an idiot, and the salesman wasn't very smart as well, since his words were ambiguous, not a good salesman.

I saw a TV commercial where the disclaimer said that the "car pictured in the ad cannot fly".  Another ad

was pretty good showing a car, doing skateboard tricks.  Not once did I think that that car could do that.  But

underneath the message was a disclaimer, "Cars cannot do skateboard tricks"

 

Are people really this stupid?

 

Here is something that I find absolutely wrong, but no one puts a disclaimer under this product.

Lay's Potato Chips shows a great big bad of chips,  why isn't there a disclaimer saying this:

 

"Bag shown is not full of chips, it is barely half full of chips, the other half of the bag is full of air"

 

What about that?  We have laws here in the USA called the "Truth in advertising laws"  But no one follows them.

If we start to consider that as a lie, we could do the same with a lot of products, bottle of water (for example 95 % water 5 % air), yogurts, etc.The advertising shows a bag filled with chips, normally they indicate a mass on the bag, if the bag contains chips and weighs this mass, fine, if not, it's a lie and it's against the law, that's all.

Have you noticed ads for medicines lately??  A 30 second ad has about 10 seconds of someone saying what the

medicine does for you.  The other 20 seconds is filled with a speed talker telling you about all the bad things it

does to you.  Now that is truth in advertising.

Considering that medicines can be harmful, even in little quantities, and that it's still a important cause of deaths in countries whose population can afford medicine, they must write if they do an ad about it. But should we write on a hamburger bag : "warning : this meal can be lethal if you eat it every day during 6 months blabla etc" ? Don't think so, since you really need to consume large quantities of it to be unhealthy...but it will still be the truth. 

[Chameleon]

I don't care what the case, who we are talking about, or what reasoning there might be, the guy that got up to fix the sandwich and all that is an utter moron.. Exactly what did he think would happen? Some people are just stupid hehe.. Good story by the way Smoke

[Jefke]

I think it is rather smart to be honest...

 

Salesman said something, it is proven to be false

=> false advertisment

 

That's illegal, so sure why not try to make money of it in court. I would do it ^^

 

 

ps. The part he actually stand up and make a sandwich is rather stupid

Edited April 2, 2013 by DrJoske

[UAdave]

some of my favorites are toasters saying do not put blinds in toasters and coffee cups saying caution: contents may be hot. you know someone has done these..

[Chameleon]

I think is is rather smart to be honest...

 

Salesman said something, it is proven to be false

=> false advertisment

 

That's illegal, so sure why not try to make money of it in court. I would do it ^^

 

 

ps. The part he actually stand up and make a sandwich is rather stupid

Well yeah if you are looking to bake a few dollars it is good thinking lol, but what if he had killed himself in the process hehe..

 

some of my favorites are toasters saying do not put blinds in toasters and coffee cups saying caution: contents may be hot. you know someone has done these..

[Saizou]

I'd say that kind of ads are targeted to people who will buy it just beacause it seems fancy or whatnot, and they don't actually need it. When you know what do you need and you have to buy it you know what the thing does. Also, when the package is larger than it should be to fit the product you are buying is it considered a scam? You are buying chips by weight and water by volume, so if there's the declared quantity of the sold good in an oversized container it should be fine. If there is less then it's a scam. You might say that oversized containers/bags give wrong impression of sold quantity but oversizing containers costs more money too.

 

About the safety instructions, I personally have mixed feelings about them. Some are useful as some stuff may not be obvious to everyone (when it comes to toasters, I used a toaster sideways and left a schorch mark on my table as I wasn't expecting the casing to be so hot to actually burn the table) and yet others are clearly just a way to avoid legal issues.