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Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt

Posted by Zonk on from the ow-why-is-there-so-much-blood dept.

massysett writes "Everybody has been frustrated by plastic retail packaging that's nearly impossible to open. New toys and electronic gadgets arrive encased in plastic bubbles. Manufacturers say the packages protect goods and make them look nice, but opening them can be difficult enough to cause injuries that land people in the emergency room. Manufacturers have an appropriate term for the frustration: wrap rage. One man even invented a cutter designed specifically for cracking open plastic clamshells."

2 of 533 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What do other people do? by megaditto · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Cuts anything up to and including pennies.
    Yeah very funny. Except that it is a federal offence to deface the United States' currency
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    Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
  2. Re:the second is wrong by Richard_J_N · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, but escape sequences in English look barbarous! May I suggest either avoiding the problem, by using square brackets:
        "[that was funny:)]"
    or at least regaining clarity by inserting an extra space:
        "(that was funny:) )"
    It's a similar problem in English to ending a sentence with a URL. I usually insert spaces:
        "Please visit http://www.example.com/ ."

    All the above are, of course, quote-delimited. Actually, it would be nice if we had separate ASCII for all 5 of:
      {open,close}{single,double}-quote,apostrophe.