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I can add a little history of Joe's floating bottle.
The homeowners used to float around in their pool on inner tubes. They also would put their television in another inner tube, and plug it into this bottle/plug.
Darwinians for sure

That's as good as the new VCR I bought several years ago, that came complete with a VHS tape explaining how to hook up your new VCR!

[This message has been edited by NJwirenut (edited 07-21-2004).]

Actually the vending machine warning is real. There were 37 known deaths and 113 injuries at the time of this release http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/PRHTML96/96011.html by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The bridge sign is a joke or urban legend.

The impalement sign makes sense to me... I'd rather not be up on a building where there are spikes jutting upward even if they're there for protection from other dangerous events.