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Ever have to open one of those packages? Seems they are every now. If its not locked behind glass, then your looking at a 30 minute job with any and all cutting and hacking tools you own when you get home. I’ve recently had to open 3 of these packages, from SD cards for my camera. And I’ve opened plenty of them before.

I must be one of the lucky ones, because I’ve yet to cut myself. But others are not quite so lucky.

The stubborn plastic casing around the Microsoft Xbox 360 faceplate seemed to laugh first at the kitchen scissors and then the steak knife that tried to penetrate it. When 14-year-old Daniel Mroue’s attempt to open the thing with a long, serrated bagel knife failed, his parents became concerned.

Mroue’s father, George, took over with a pair of box-cutters, which did the trick. But George Mroue also ended up with a wad of bandages shoring up the damage after slicing his palm open on a sharpened piece of plastic.

“It was ridiculous,” groused George Mroue of the February incident. “There was nothing anywhere telling us how to open the (darn) thing. I don’t understand why they make it so goddamn hard to open these things.”

Something is wrong here, if you need box cutters to open a package, after trying with a steak knife, scissors, and serrated bagel knife you need a different package.

…Emergency room doctors say they’re slammed the week after Christmas with such injuries and see them regularly all year. Dr. Christian Arbelaez, a Boston-area ER physician, sees about a case a week, some as serious as tendon and nerve damage that require orthopedic surgeons to repair.

Some manufactures are getting the point that these packages just plain suck, and are making them easier to open, and using different packaging.

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