Last week I bought an M-Audio OmniStudio USB to facilitate better-quality audio recordings (it hasn’t helped yet, but that’s another story). Included in the box was a sheet of paper with the following printed on it (typos theirs, emphasis mine):

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTION

1. Read these instructions.
2. Keep these instructions.
3. Heed all warnings.
4. Follow all instructions.
…
15.Warning-To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock. Do Not expose this apparatus to bald or moisture.
16.Apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the apparatus.

I hope I won’t be exposing the apparatus to bald for a very long time. And why would one put a vase on a rack-mountable recording device, anyway?