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Letter: Warning: humour

Published 2 October 2013

From Alan Carter

Surely, in the interests of health and safety, signs like the one highlighted by Feedback on the Australian beach reading “WARNING: Water” (13 July) should have an adjacent sign reading: “WARNING: delegating your ability to assess risk to writers of warning signs can be bad for your health”.
Aberdeen, UK

Issue no. 2937 published 5 October 2013

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