[MRM]

I can assure you than no lawyer wrote that warning. Most warnings and product instructions/installation manuals are written by the marketing department. That's why they're so bad. At least lawyer are usually literate and can sometimes write copy that is internally consistent. Nobody writes worse than a person with little education trying to write how they imagine a lawyer would sound like. Most companies don't incur the extra expense of having their lawyers review product warnings so they get results like this.

They probably have a stock list of warning clips they can just drop into their product descriptions. Some clerk wrote the copy and got the verbage approved. Someone else added the standard clip art #349 - warning regarding flamable liquids and it went out the door without anyone reading the whole thing again before it went out.