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Perhaps they should be better at informing nearby citizens of the presence of these devices so that kids do not get injured.

They do, with signs, weekly in-place checks, and usually knocking the property owners front door first.

That sign is 6 inches tall, and it is neither OSHA nor ANSI style:

Also, the text explaining what it does is so small you’d have to put your head near the device to read it.

> Also, the text explaining what it does is so small you’d have to put your head near the device to read it.

So? It's not a proximity trigger. It won't activate unless you pull on the bait.

How close to cyanide do you want to be when you read it's cyanide?

These things sound quite deadly, and the regulations around them sound very lax / practically not enforced.

Ethylene glycol is a deadly poison too, and people get close to it on a regular basis.

False Equivalence to the white courtesy phone...False Equivalence...

What say someone picks it up to read it. It's designed to be activated by being pulled from the top, the same way someone would pick it up.