Your Mother was RIGHT! Watch out for the peaches . . .

Your mother warned you to wear clean underwear, lest (in the event of an accident) the paramedics might think poorly of you. My mother admonished me NOT to drink from a glass with a spoon in it, warning that I would inevitably stick the spoon up my nose. [OF COURSE it then actually happened. She was a MOTHER, you know.]

These days the warnings are rather more likely to be from the Government than from the typical mother (oh, say, Kathy Hilton).

Cigarettes carry the warning that they're not good for you (who knew?).
[Yet to be seen in the West is the warning the Thai Government requires: "SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCE." That certainly would focus one's attention.]

Pop bottles: "WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE. CAP MAY BLOW OFF CAUSING EYE OR OTHER SERIOUS INJURY. POINT AWAY FROM PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHILE OPENING."

Even Pop Tarts: "Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated"

It is unlikely that the typical can of peaches carries such a warning, but it should.

WARNING! IF YOU ARE A MOTHER, DON'T WORRY! NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED! REALLY! WE'RE ALL OK!!

The Associated Press reports:

TWO children in Western Australia have been treated for shrapnel wounds and burns after a tin of peaches exploded in their kitchen. An ambulance crew was called to a house in Wellstead, near Albany, on the WA south coast, yesterday after a four-year old boy apparently placed the can of peaches in a wood heater.

The can exploded, blowing the door off the heater, damaging the refrigerator and the kitchen bench and then shooting across the room smashing into the oven, a St John Ambulance spokeswoman said.

The shattering of the window of the heater sent glass flying across the room, leaving the boy and his seven year-old sister with cuts and minor burns.

Attempting to demonstrate that understatement is not limited to the British corner of the Anglosphere, a spokesman for the ambulance company opined "It sounds like it was quite an explosion."

Story HERE.