Friday January 04, 2008 Wii Safety
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A couple of weeks ago, I was looking to see if there were any freely available development kits for writing games for the Wii. It doesn't currently look like there are, but it's definitely being worked on. |
Anyway, while I was doing this, I stumbled upon a couple interesting sites on Wii Safety. The first is a Japanese site and looks to be original Nintendo documentation.
The second one is a Flickr photo set spoof of the first one, (not that it really needs spoofing).
One has to wonder if there really are people out there who do these sort of things. But after seeing that women successfully sue McDonalds for getting burned in the crotch by that scorching cup of coffee, then perhaps it's simply done to avoid any liabilty, no matter how far fetched it might be.
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Rich, the _very page_ you link to show that the woman who sued McDonalds for being burned did so after a) being burned very badly (3rd degree); and b) (unsuccessfully) trying to get medical coverage from McDonalds. The lawsuit showed that McDonalds was _knowingly_ serving coffee much too hot, without so much as a warning posted, and with no plans to turn down the temperature.
Please don't spread this misinformation any further!
Posted by Joe Drew on January 04, 2008 at 12:53 PM PST #
What misinformation Joe? I deliberately
pointed to a page which described the
correct facts about that case, and not
some of the misinformation spread by
the press.
Posted by Rich Burridge on January 04, 2008 at 01:54 PM PST #
You still implied that the McDonalds suit wasn't valid by lumping it in with other far-fetched potential liabilities (like the wii safety guide).
Posted by Joe Drew on January 04, 2008 at 02:02 PM PST #
You missed my point.
Before that law-suit, McDonalds didn't put a
warning on their coffee, telling the user to be
careful because it was really hot. It was
assumed that, like with a lot of other things
in life, the user would be careful and not do
something potentially dangerous.
Now McDonalds adds a warning. And Nintendo add
several warnings for the Wii, for things that
should be common sense.
But as they say, common sense is anything but
that.
Posted by Rich Burridge on January 04, 2008 at 03:10 PM PST #
Sure, except for the fact that there was nothing common-sense about McDonalds' coffee temperature.
Posted by Joe Drew on January 04, 2008 at 04:10 PM PST #