PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ON LOUSY PACKAGING:

I’ve been opening a bunch of new electonic gizmos today, all of which came in those damnable plastic clamshells. Naturally, my hands are now covered with small cuts. I got off lucky, however, compared to some victims of the packaging industry. Did you know that “injuries from plastic packaging resulted in 6,400 visits to emergency rooms in 2004”?!

I’m not usually a big fan of Trial Lawyers Inc., but if somebody were to bring a class action against the manufacturers of plastic clamshells on behalf of all of us who have been wounded by them over the years, I’d sign up in a minute.

I hate those things, which are a subspecies of packaging demonstrating that the manufacturers don’t really care about their customers. See also CD and DVD packaging . . . .