Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ll-xn!seibert
From: seibert@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (seibert)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Are checkout-counter lasers hazardous?
Message-ID: <1658@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 15:57:12 GMT
References: <189@bucsb.UUCP>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Lines: 10
In-reply-to: erics@bucsb.UUCP's message of 9 Jan 90 02:32:50 GMT

You ask if they're dangerous?  Ever wonder why the clerks
ring fresh fruits and vegetables by hand...?  ((I see melted
bananas, sprouts catching fire, boiled oranges...))  I can't
believe OSHA lets the clerks stand so close to the laser
units or that innocent customers, like yourself, can be
zapped accidentally!  You're lucky you weren't maimed.  _MS

((winking smiley with glasses))
-- 
Michael Seibert         seibert@xn.ll.mit.edu        ll-xn!seibert