The picture above shows you a warning found on the bottom of breakfast menu in our Holiday Inn hotel room in San Deigo (yes, yes we know you all think we stay in arty hotels but sometimes we like to save the pennies especially in mega-pricey conference-hall cities). It lets us know that if we eat undercooked food we might get sick – how helpful, and how well placed at the bottom of the menu.
Meanwhile the first sign you see when you leave the elevator to get to your room is this one telling you that you’re entering an area that might give you cancer!
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This is the result of a California initiative passed several years ago to alert the public about potentially cancer-causing substances.
As you can see, it’s fundamentally meaningless. What are you going to do, ask for your money back at this stage?
This, I think, is a splendid example of added cost for zero public benefit. AFAIK, there wasn’t a sunset provision in the law that was passed–so this crap will stay with Californians indefinitely.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:24 am
People are too sensitive these days and worried about everything. If you need messages like these to tell you there are bad things out there, you should just never leave your home.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:59 am
nice one, piers.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:41 pm