A toilet seat that attaches to a trailer hitch has been recognized for a warning label that says you’d better not use it while the vehicle is moving.
“The Original Off-Road Commode” won this year’s “Wacky Warning Labels” contest, organizers announced Wednesday. The contest, now in its 12th year, is intended to highlight claims that frivolous lawsuits have distorted the U.S. civil justice system.
1st
Steve Shiflett of Hampton, Ga., won $500 for submitting the toilet seat’s warning that it’s “not for use on moving vehicles.”
Company officials added the warning about two years ago after learning that a consumer had modified the product and was driving around with it on the back of his vehicle.
2nd
Daniel Berganini of Fridley, Minn., won the second-place prize of $250 for a line in a wart-removal product’s instruction guide that is unlikely to reach its targeted audience: “Do not use if you cannot see clearly to read the information in the information booklet.”
3rd
Third place was a tie between a cereal bowl warning, “Always use this product with adult supervision,” and a bag of livestock castration rings cautioning, “For animal use only.” Michael Leonard of Yarmouth, Maine, and Freddy Krieger of Baroda, Mich., each won $100.
Past winners include a small tractor that cautioned “Danger: Avoid Death,” and a warning not to put people inside a washing machine.
And when you go, this is the best place for it
The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., has afternoon tea in the grand lobby. A presidential suite with 2,000 square feet. And a really nice toilet.
So nice, in fact, that it’s been voted America’s best restroom.
Flush in the middle of downtown Nashville, the luxury hotel and its ground-floor men’s bathroom are definitely the head of the class.
The redoubtable restroom is art-deco style with gleaming lime-green-and-black leaded glass tiles, lime-green fixtures, terrazzo floor and a two-seat shoeshine station.
“You just can’t find anything like it anywhere else,” says Janet Kurtz, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing.
The restroom won the honor in online voting sponsored by Cincinnati-based Cintas Corp., which supplies rest room hygiene products and services. The company says “tens of thousands” of people voted over two months last summer. Precise numbers are kept, well, private.
Criteria were hygiene, style and access to the public. The honor has earned the restroom entry to “America’s Best Restroom Hall of Fame.”
“People see it and fall in love with it,” Kurtz said.
It has four stools, three urinals, four sinks, spotless mirrors and a Sultan phone that connects to the front desk.
Compiled from wire reports
