Has anyone ever actually been sent to jail for removing the tag from the mattress. Why and how is it illegal?
2006-08-12 01:04:50 · 16 answers · asked by sean_fh 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
That's funny. I doubt it. Don't tell anyone, but I removed mine, and never lost any sleep over it.
2006-08-12 01:06:50 · answer #1 · answered by mixemup 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The retail consumer is free to do anything with that tag they wish.
The tag is mandated by law because of fraudulent practices of some manufacturers in the bedding industry about 100 years ago -- some very strange things were used in bedding in the past.
Unscrupulous wholesalers & retailers would replace the tags with ones indicating better quality materials were used and jack up the prices, necessitating the statement on the tag.
For a number of years now the tags say that the final consumer can remove them. That's not always been the case, though the law only applied to manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers so no consumer was ever hassled for removing it.
When I was 5 or 6 I ripped the tag off my grandmother's mattress. The poor woman was terrified that the police would come crashing through the door at any moment -- and I was terrified that I would be the cause of her being hauled off to the hoosgow. It took my poor dad at least a month to convince both of us that nothing was going to happen.
2006-08-12 01:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's one of the very oldest trickster-jokes played on gullible people since the U.S Federal Government passed the law that requires MANUFACTURERS of mattresses to put a specific 'material' label on mattress's as the mattresses are made.
Persons buying them are often warned by prankster friends that they'll be arrested by the (non-existent) Federal Mattress Police if they tear off the mattress label.
2006-08-12 01:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by ha_mer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it a federal felony and a minimum of 3 years in prison. I mean a mattress could be stuffed with cow manure for all you know without that tag.
2006-08-12 01:08:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tag says it's not legal for the it to be removed BEFORE sold to the end user (i.e. consumer). It's just a joke that one can't remove the tag from their own mattress.
2006-08-12 01:06:53 · answer #5 · answered by PittCaleb 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's illegal to remove it before you buy it.
Once you have paid money for it, you can take it off if you want.
But, it's about as serious as J-Walking, and last time I checked they don't have a Mattress Inspection Unit.
2006-08-12 01:07:12 · answer #6 · answered by Justin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. I just got out. The mattress police busted me 5 years ago.
2006-08-12 01:14:08 · answer #7 · answered by Zelda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be removed by the consumer after it is brought and paid for. Go ahead, cut it off. You're safe.
2006-08-12 01:07:24 · answer #8 · answered by itsmeee2006 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anyone reports you, you can get life. Don't let anyone in the room with you, when you perform this dastardly deed,
At most, it would be a misdemeanor with a small fine.
2006-08-12 01:08:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
30 years hard labor with nothing to eat but bread and water... OOOh did I mention thirty lashes each day with a wet noodle?
2006-08-12 01:12:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋