Were You Ever Freaked Out By A Mattress Tag (Or Something Similar)?

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When I was around ten, I was visiting my cousins, and we were in the bedroom together. I happened to notice some kind of tag attached to one of the mattresses, and I read it to find out that it said something on the order of how this tag wasn't to be removed under penalty of law. Of course, as I would find out later, this would mean that somebody selling the mattress wasn't to remove this tag, which held information that might end up being important to the consumer. However, I had the idea that nobody was to remove the tag. I asked my older cousin (recently turned 13) what this meant. "What if I tear it off accidentally? Could I go to jail?" Barbara--seeing this as a silly question--gave me a silly answer (likely, while rolling her eyes--but I was so intrigued with the mattress tag that I wouldn't have noticed at the time), "I believe that you can go to the electric chair for something like that." Seconds later, the tag--which I had been nervously toying with--separated itself from the mattress, and I gave the most hysterical shriek that brought our grandma into the bedroom to see what was going on. Mawsie calmed me down and reassured me that I wasn't going to the electric chair while Barbara shook her head and rolled her eyes. Have you--or anyone you know--had an experience such as this with one of those mattress tags? If not one of them, have you ever experienced a similar misunderstanding of some other instructions?