I got my C&O mountain loco in the mail today and it had
a warning lable on it that said this product contains cancer causing
materials according to the state of California
So just what is it they are talking about ?
Some wires in it have lead.... don't worry, you'll die anyway.
Oh yeah, Terry,
you're safe from the nasty lead unless you're in California. :)
Terry,
You should be okay unless you eat or inhale the entire locomotive. ;)
Why don’t you research the California law requiring the Cancer warning label? Then you will be able to put the warning into the correct perspective.
Also remember to wash your hands with soap and warm water before you eat food.
I'm pretty sure it means that the material or some of them, used in the locomotive can cause cancer if exposed to your bodies insides. Keep away from eyes or mouths. Reulations only in California tell to put the lable on there, I would be very cautious of that locomotive.
I could be a cold-hearted killer! ;)
ALL RAILS SHALL MELT, ALL STEAM SHALL BURN, AND ALL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES WILL KILL!
Just kidding, I would send it back for a refund and buy it from a different manufacter just to be safe.
BY THE WAY!! DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE ORINANAL DEWITT CLINTON IS STILL AROUND?
That is our infamous "Proposition 65 Warning Label". California is ruled by special interests who manage to get their ideas onto the ballot when the legislature, in a fit of sanity, refuses to pass them Prop 65 required a warning label on any product which their committees determine might cause cancer or birth defects, or possibly otherproblems. I recently found it on some Micro Engineering flex track. The warning also has to be posted prominently at the entrance to any business which has, uses, or sells such products. They don't have to list what they are--so using that HO flex track as an example, we don't get to know whether it is the rails or the ties that are a danger to us. As a health inspector that was one more thing I had to make sure was posted in restaruants, markets, bars, swimming pools, and many other establishments.
Does this remove any doubt that Californians are crazy?
gj
Quote from: Santa Fe buff on May 30, 2008, 08:27:33 PM
I'm pretty sure it means that the material or some of them, used in the locomotive can cause cancer if exposed to your bodies insides. Keep away from eyes or mouths. Reulations only in California tell to put the lable on there, I would be very cautious of that locomotive.
I could be a cold-hearted killer! ;)
ALL RAILS SHALL MELT, ALL STEAM SHALL BURN, AND ALL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES WILL KILL!
Just kidding, I would send it back for a refund and buy it from a different manufacter just to be safe.
BY THE WAY!! DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE ORINANAL DEWITT CLINTON IS STILL AROUND?
Pretty much everything on the market today has lead in it....
If it doesn't have the label, it's probably older stock, before they were required to have them...
Can't be any more silly than the warning on hammers directing the user to make sure the business end of the hammer doesn't face your head!
I guess if you eat the track your life might be in peril.
I thought ARNOLD was going to reform the Cal - ee- fornia government when he got Grey Davis kicked out.
I thought it was because it was because of the plastics they used... Oh well, your fine as long as you don't plan to smoke your locomotive like a cigar!
Hey gg,
Proto Smoke, or candy cane smoke? :D
I thought it was the smoke fluid?
I recall one part of an old "Design Preservation" instruction sheet as reading: "Our insurance company tells up we have to tell you not to eat this product". Interestingly, with all of the desease, hunger and general misery that surrounds us every day, the clowns in the insurance industry have time and energy to think up useless crap like this!! Rome really is burning, isn't it?
The Old Reprobate
PS: Johann; Is this political or anything?
In the railroad world we like SOO, SOO, SOO. In the real world it is sue, sue, sue.
Glenn
Remember I mentioned that when I spent some time in your neck of the woods some years ago, we were never served water in restaurants, only wine. I saw one guy slurp down two full bottles as if it was tea. Is Prop 65 on the water too?
No--in most places the water is ok--it is just in rather short supply in the North as most of it is being shipped south to places where they have no restrictions on its use.
The oil companies run a quarter-page ad in most of the newspapers once a week to cover their end of it.
Our wedding anniversary was this week, my wife demanded I take her to the most expensive place in town.
So I took her to a gas station.
Speaking of labels, one of my prescription bottles says: "Take 2 tablets BY MOUTH......."
But seriously folks, I bought her a 42" Plasma TV, yup same cancer warning label. I told her not to eat the TV and always use the remote.
NEWS FLASH!!!! NEW GOVERNMENT STUDY FINDS FRESH AIR A HEALTH HAZARD - EVERYONE WHO BREATHES EVENTUALLY DIES!!!!
WATER IN SHORT SUPPLY IN DESERT - WHY IS THIS NEWS AND WHY DO PEOPLE WANT OT LIVE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
CANCER WARNING LABELS - JUST ANOTHER HAPPY DAY IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CALIFORNIA - FOR MY MONEY, THE MEXICANS CAN HAVE IT BACK.
SHELDON
Wow, we went from jokes about eatting the locomotive, all the way to Prop 65, and water supply...where does the time go?
Haha, it's funny seeing the medicine ads in magazines.... the advertisements are one page, and the next 3 are side effects!
From the Smith & Wesson instruction manual:
"Warning: the revolver will fire if the trigger is pulled!"
As the saying goes: common sense really isn't all that common.
Ned
Yampa - take by mouth - or as the Rx says "PO" Latin for " per ora." That is standard on prescriptions and I gather it's been done that way since prescriptions were first written.
My favorite warning labels are those that used to be on fireworks; "Light fuse, retire quickly."
Dear Friends,
Regardin some thoughts on Pb:
In Pittsburgh, our beloved and beleaguered baseball broadcaster, Bob Prince, would comment about a baserunner thrown out at second base on a failed steal attempt:
"He had larceny in his heart, and lead in his feet!"
Best Wishes!
Jack
Speaking of dangerous and life threatening chemicals, may I draw modellers attention to the danger of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide? All too often used by modellers who I am sure are not aware of the dangers inherent in this substance. Please read:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Steve Magee
Newcastle NSW Aust
Dihydrogen Monoxide is also Hydrogen Hydroxide. H2O is its chemical symbol and in English Water is it's common Name . Like everything in the universe when misused is dangerous.
Quote from: Ned on June 01, 2008, 07:38:29 PM
From the Smith & Wesson instruction manual:
"Warning: the revolver will fire if the trigger is pulled!"
As the saying goes: common sense really isn't all that common.
Ned
Thats for those who like to drink, or for the stupid, or for the dumbfounded, I forget....that is a new saying, the old one that made common sence common, is when people thought, oh well. The trigger shall not be pulled then.
I my friend is mad!
His smaller sister was playing around by his layout, when he was running his CSX dash 8, and she knocked it over. The nose broke off, and all the hand railing did too! The only back couple is runined now! But we were able to cemement the nose and a set of railings back on.
now that you got the little girl fixed, what did you do to the loco? ::)