Consider yourself warned
by Volker Weber
No matter how hard I try, I cannot imagine this kind of warning sign in a different language. :-)
Comments
When your country openly welcomes everyone, they all show up.
We take the good w/ the bad.
... but we expect them to speak our language.
Makes me wonder why pictograms were invented at all ;-)
Thom, isn't your story contradicting your comment? ;-)
I'm assuming it is my country's penchant for liability suits.
At the Grand Canyon, they're doing the same thing in the hotels/motels.
Note, you're not supposed to drink water from the toilet because it's *reclaimed.* Not because it's a *toilet.*
Which begs the question. I really have to wonder what subculture routinely imbibes from the porcelain chariot.
Actually, dogs are so smart in the US these days that they can read. This sign was merely intended for them.
Garret was right. The sign isn't because we have a stupid culture but because we have a litigious culture. Someone buys a coffee at a drive through and spills it. Because that coffee cup didn't say "contents may be hot" the person won a lawsuit. Warning signs are more for the property owners' liability than anything else...
Chris, you’re wrong: any culture that lets lawyers run riot is a stupid culture.
And I’m not just picking on the US here, the whole world is going the same way.
