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