Do you think weight limits on chairs and ladders are a bunch of crap?

I think you're misunderstanding the point of the weight limit.

It's not a weight break limit, it's a weight design lawsuit limit... meaning if someone who weights over that limit gets injured using the product, they can attempt to easily get out of the lawsuit.

The products are usually design to have a break limit (which you're thinking of) much higher than the listed weight, with is more of a lawsuit limit. So 50 lbs over the limit is no big deal (unless someone gets hurts), but start going over 150 lb over it can be.

Nope, the company doesn't want to get sued if someone like him decides to flop down in that chair and it collapses.

they put weight limits on things for a reason. why would you ignore safety warnings???

Well, it's not fun when a chair breaks when a guest sits in it. I bought some of those cheap white wooden folding wedding chairs at Christmas Tree shops one year and my brothers' partner sat down and the whole thing collapsed AND splintered. He could have been very badly hurt.

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