Samsung is facing a lawsuit from a Galaxy Note 7 owner who endured an exploding phone in his pants just hours before Samsung began to cooperate with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on an official recall:
After news emerged that Samsung had received 92 reports in the US about the battery in its Galaxy Note 7 phone overheating -- including 26 cases involving burns -- it seemed only time before someone would contact a lawyer.
Now, Reuters reports, 28-year-old Jonathan Strobel of Boca Raton, Florida, has filed what may be the first lawsuit in the US involving the Note 7's combustible battery. Strobel's suit, filed Friday, says his Note 7 exploded in his front pants pocket on September 9. This allegedly happened in a Costco in Palm Beach Gardens, where Strobel works. "His right thigh has a deep second-degree burn the size of the phone," Keith Pierro, Strobel's lawyer, told me, adding that Strobel's left hand was also burnt. (He apparently reached for his overheating phone with his opposite hand.)
The Palm Beach Post reported that Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue described the phone as having melted inside Strobel's pants.
The complaint says that Strobel suffered "sustained serious and permanent bodily injuries resulting in pain and suffering, permanent impairment, disability, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of the enjoyment of life, expense of medical care and treatment, expense of hospitalization, lost wages, and ability to earn wages in the past and to be experienced in the future."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:41PM
How else will the other dudes know he's cruising for ass?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:51PM
Dudes who may happen to be interested in other dudes cruising don't seem to have much difficulty identifying each other -- regardless of the type of phone that either party uses. In fact, a bag phone is too primitive to support modern apps which may be used to facilitate such cruising.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:16PM
Dude! Do you need to have it spelled out for you? Carry your iPhone 7 in a Whole Foods tote bag strapped to your shoulder like a purse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:39PM
All we have here is an Earth Fare [earthfare.com], you insensitive clod!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:18PM
and if Samsung made the bag phone, it will take out a hell of a lot more than your pants!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:13AM
Dudes who may happen to be interested in other dudes cruising don't seem to have much difficulty identifying each other
Informative documentary on the subject [youtube.com]