Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
Most people know Tide Pods are not food and hair dryers should not be used while sleeping. At least, we really hope so. But judging by the disclaimers companies put on products, somebody out there definitely needed the reminder. So maybe it’s good they exist after all.
One Redditor asked users to share the dumbest warning labels they’ve ever seen, and the responses did not disappoint. We gathered some of the funniest and most ridiculous ones below. Scroll down to check them out.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
There is a story behind every warning.
RELATED:
#4
Warning: contains peanuts
On a bag of peanuts.
Roxy222uk 1 hour ago
Sometimes I find the energy to repeat myself. I don’t know about the US but in the UK and the EU there are 14 common allergens that HAVE to be labelled in bold on ingredients lists. I find it remarkable that people find that completely acceptable but think the law has gone made when it still holds true if someone is buying ‘just’ a container of that allergen.
#5
Warning: Do not hold wrong end of a chainsaw.
Silly safety warning people. Everyone knows the only way to use a chainsaw is attached to your stump of a right hand as a weapon.
Kristiina Männiste 1 minute ago
I actually managed to destroy my favorite gardening gloves that way. I was sawing some bird cherry branches and the saw slipped (bird cherry is one nasty, twisty, slippery tree). Luckily it was a small electric chainsaw and I only got some scratches. But the glove looked like I had fought with a bear.
#6
On a book: Once opened keep refrigerated.
Lost Panda 2 hours ago (edited)
Was it a book of the comedic genre? Because I feel like I saw that on a Futurama title card before too
#7
On the tsa's website it explicitly says not to put a child in a car seat through the x ray machine.
#10
"Caution: Do not iron clothes while wearing them".
David Paterson 32 minutes ago (edited)
I like to wear clothes when I'm ironing. Otherwise, who knows where I might get burnt.
#11
Bottom of a skateboard:
"Warning: This product moves when used.".
#12
At a zoo for a lion exhibit. " Do not pet ".
David Paterson 29 minutes ago
At a zoo for a Tasmanian Devil exhibit. Did not have a "do not pet" sign, and should have!
#13
On the manual for a portable projector: 'do not put in bath tub' with a drawing of a huge bathtub filled with water and huge X over it.
#14
The bucket of pickles at Chick-Fil-A warns against letting toddlers drown in the pickle juice. There's a diagram showing a kid with his head stuck in the bucket and arms flailing.
#16
I saw a diagram on a riding lawnmower showing you how to **not drive over children**.
#19
The Nissian commercial comes to mind.
**Fantasy. Do not attempt. Cars can't jump on trains.**
#20
I worked in the kitchen of a jail once and some of the boxes of food said "not meant for human consumption".
#22
I once read a warning on a can of electrical contact cleaner to the effect of *"If you are blind or cannot read English do not use this product until the warnings have been explained to you!"* If I'm blind or can't read English, how the hell am I reading that? And how many blind people are using aerosol contact cleaner?
#23
My parents had this automatic shower cleaner thing in their shower. You hang it up, and press a button to make it spray out shower cleaner. It had a label that said "not to be used as body wash."
I was disappointed, since I was really looking forward to using shower cleaner with bleach as a nice, scrubbing body wash.
#25
Warning: poison do not eat.
David Paterson 1 hour ago
More information needed. Many (not all) poisons can be eaten in small quantities.
#27
Not sure if this counts but on the back of the cards in electronic monopoly it specifies that they aren't real mastercards and you can use them at real stores.....seriously?
#29
I saw a knife set a while back that had a great typo warning: "Keep out of children."
At least I think it's a typo. I guess it's a pretty good warning too.
#33
Chemist here.
Do not pipette by mouth.
Stephanie L Thesing 1 hour ago
For reference, back in the long-ago time of the 80’s in a laboratory setting, with the little glass pipettes that we’d collect blood in, we had a long thin rubber tube with little plastic attachments at either end. Put the pipette in one end, the other end you’d blow in to express the blood into a different container to analyze. It was always said not to inhale rather than blow, but to be honest, you’d need a helluva lotta suction to get the blood all the way back up the rubber tube and into your mouth. The practice of mouth-pipetting was eventually done away with for safety purposes, but I still remember having the long tube curled up in my lab coat pocket with my pens and measuring tape. :)
#34
On plastic wrapped firewood - "remove plastic before burning".
#36
My new modem warned me that just having it wasn't enough to give you internet, you had to have a provider...
David Paterson 56 minutes ago
I know some older people who would need this warning. You actually need four things: modem, provider, and the other two.
#37
On an infant onesie: keep away from fire.
How else do you dry a baby?
David Paterson 1 hour ago
This is a type of clothing classified as "styled to reduce risk". This means "doesn't catch fire easily but extremely dangerous if it does catch fire".
#39
Disclaimer: I did not see this, but a friend of mine told me the following warning he saw.
**Tl;Dr:** Warning of "Do Not Eat" on a brick of C4.
His unit was deployed in Afghanistan and a Navy EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) team was going to dispose of captured weapons and ordinance. He had asked earlier if he could tag along the next time they were going to get rid of explosives.
As they piled the ordinance out, he and the EOD team start laying out C4 bricks. He opens the crate of C4, on the box there is a date of 1969 and the warning: Do Not Eat. Every brick contains the same warning "Do Not Eat". I guess someone found grey play-doh appetizing at some point during Vietnam?
#40
That truck commercial from a year back or so that showed the truck "skiing" down a mountain doing jumps and stuff. They had to put a warning at the bottom saying "Trucks cannot ski. Do not try this.".
#43
My parents test-drove a car that had a little hutch in the center console with the label: "Do not put your hamburger in here." Gotta love America!
#44
On a faux leather belt, "Not for consumption".
#46
Road is slippery when wet.
David Paterson 36 minutes ago
That's an interesting one. Modern asphaltic concrete roads aren't slippery when wet. Older style tarred roads without exposed gravel are slippery when wet. Modern roads have good drainage. Older roads have water over the road because of poor drainage.
#48
On a packet of over-the-counter sleeping pills:
"Warning- may cause drowsiness".
David Paterson 1 hour ago
This makes sense. "Sleep" and "drowsiness" are not closely related. "Drowsiness" is a euphemism for "zonked". Benzodiazepines are sleeping tablets that do not cause drowsiness. Antihistamines (eg. In Demazin) do cause drowsiness.
#51
Once in college i saw a box of split firewood at walmart, the box had a warning label that said something along the lines of ""this product contains carbon, a substance known to the state of California to cause cancer"
WTH? techincally we are all carbon based...
Toujin C'Thlu 1 hour ago
Unfortunately, that's one of the labeling laws in California. Everything that can potentially cause cancer must be pointed out on warning labels
#52
Not so much a warning, but the instructions on a pain relief gel I once bought read "after applying to the affected area, wash your hands. Unless the affected area is your hands."
David Paterson 1 hour ago
That's because it's more effective if you don't wash your hands. They want it to run out faster.
#53
Warning: Cruise control does not mean the RV will drive itself.
David Paterson 1 hour ago
There's a story behind this warning that I've heard. Perhaps apocryphal. Adaptive cruise control could just about be designed these days to allow a vehicle to drive itself, but car manufacturers don't want that.
#54
I used to play Airsoft and some of the guns had a poorly translated warning label that stated "Don't point at the creature".
#60
Working in a lab and seeing on every acid (hydrochloric, acidic, sulfuric, etc.): Warning, may contain acid.
#62
Warning: barbed wire may cause serious injury.
The sign was less visible than the barbed wire was...
#63
Seen a 'do not turn over' warning on the bottom of a pizza box.
ETA: Don't worry, I'd already eaten the pizza so it was okay :).
#64
Litrerally ten seconds ago I saw a package of pre cooked chicken marked with "Don't feed it to the fox". This whole fox nonsense has gone way too far.
#65
Do it yourself breathalyser that says "Do not use breathalyser results to assist in your decision whether to drive or not".
It was printed on the back of a breathalyser from a company called "backtrack". I decided not to purchase the device because of the stupidity of the warning.
Tim Fawcett 1 hour ago
Legal a**e-covering so they don't get dragged into court when you get pulled over and over the limit.
#66
Warning label on my hairdryer: Do not use in bear feet.
Yes, that is how it was spelled.
#67
On window air conditioner:
**WARNING: BE SURE AIR CONDITIONER DOES NOT FALL OUT OF WINDOW. MAINTAIN A FIRM GRIP WHEN INSTALLING AND REMOVING AIR CONDITIONER.**.
#68
Dr.pepper cans used to say "warning: contents under pressure" its pop... that's kind of a no brainer...
#69
I wouldnt call it a warning "label" but the road sign in front of my house says "do not pass when incoming traffic is present". I see it everyday and lose just a little more of my faith in humanity...
Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
nut nibbler 16 minutes ago
And which country do we think has caused the introduction of these nuggets of extra information needed?
Lost Panda 2 hours ago
Okay, so you read them. Now remember that for every warning label you see anywhere, that means that a significant amount of people attempted to do exactly that, and that my little pandas is how warning labels are born
nut nibbler 16 minutes ago
And which country do we think has caused the introduction of these nuggets of extra information needed?
Lost Panda 2 hours ago
Okay, so you read them. Now remember that for every warning label you see anywhere, that means that a significant amount of people attempted to do exactly that, and that my little pandas is how warning labels are born
Related on Bored Panda
