David Nebenzahl wrote:

No, it has to do with lawyers. I got six pages of warnings,
admonitions, instructions, and prayers with a new step-stool! (Do
not use while operating heavy machinery, during thunderstorms, while
eating licorice, etc.)

You must get a kick out of the Harbor Freight warnings on the
packages, as I do. No matter what the product is, the warning is
invariably the
same:
WEAR SAFETY GLASSES

Doesn't matter if the product is a tube of glue, a pack of sandpaper
or a hex wrench. I guess that's the Chinese take on how to mimic American
safety warnings.

I discount those warnings, knowing as I do, the Chinese mania for protection
of life and limb.