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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the William-Blake dept.

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."


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:51PM (#404470)

    I was in one of their stores recently and watched a lady fall (in very slow motion) to the ground near but not on a wet spot and start yelling for a manager. I'm sure they'll settle out of court, but I hope they had it on CCTV to tell her to shove it. No frigging way I was going to get in the middle of it by saying something, as those type of bottom feeders will sue anyone for anything.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:31PM (#404502)

    I have seen the opposite. A old lady in the middle of her shopping trip sat down in the cafe to rest for a minute, and the loss prevention thug threatened to have her arrested for shoplifting and banned from the store, because she sat down before paying for her purchases. She screamed for the store manager who told the loss prevention thug to leave the old lady alone. See what happens when you hire veterans of recent wars as store security.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:04PM (#404539)

      I can see how an LP guy would be concerned, given that most Costco cafes are on the *OUTSIDE* of the cash register row, and moving your shopping cart past the registers to sit down at the cafe could be construed as an attempt to sneak it outside of the store.

      That said, Costco also requires your receipt and checking your cart before you can exit, beyond the registers, so the LP guy should've known better. On the other hand the issue was with training and discipline on the managerial side, not necessarily on the vets. If you're going to hire vets for such a job you need someone who knows how to manage them well. Costco in general has had a declining quality of employees across all positions, and is perhaps an example of failure of the upper echelons to ensure their middle to lower management ranks can actually do their jobs (or perhaps those who have been promoted to upper management did not actually have the competence to rise where they did and are as a result dragging the whole company down. A similiar problem affects AAA, Golden One and a number of other 'subscriber oriented' companies.)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:07PM (#404866)

      See what happens when you hire veterans of recent wars as store security.

      This has nothing to do with the LP person being a gaping asshole.

      This has to do with Costco and every other money grubbing mega chain paying shit slave wages, juggling schedules to avoid paying employees full time and benefits, and managers who are pressured to squeeze the most work they can out of an untrained, underpaid, and therefor, disgruntled staff. Might as well just call the employees niggers and chain them to their registers, sections, and posts. Working for one of these fuck holes is as close to dehumanizing as you can get.

      That LP guy probably makes 8 bucks an hour to deal with asshole customers who are bitching because one person has to check carts with a hundred items to make sure no one is getting away with free stuff because an underpaid cashier accidentally missed something. Meanwhile, it's been shown that the biggest loss in these stores is employee theft. It's insulting. But hey, some rich cunt CEO gets to fly in a private jet to their favorite exotic golf course to brag about how much money he fucked out of his slaves with his other slave drivers. I will never set foot in one of those shit holes.