“Just days after Samsung recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a St. Petersburg man says he found out the hard way why the recall was issued in the first place,” Josh Cascio reports for FOX 13 News.
“Nathan Dornacher’s wife, Lydia said the family went to a yard sale Labor Day morning. While unloading a desk they bought for their daughter, Nathan left his Note 7 charging in the center console of his Jeep Grand Cherokee,” Cascio reports. “Lydia said they sent their 8-year-old daughter, with the family’s service dog, to get back in the vehicle because they were leaving to run more errands. But the dog knew something was wrong. Nathan looked out of the window and realized his Jeep was on fire. The phone had exploded and engulfed his Jeep in flames.”
“Nathan said his vehicle was a point of pride, telling FOX 13 News he had made many upgrades to the vehicle,” Cascio reports. “Now those upgrades are ashes and Nathan will have to find a new ride. Samsung recalled the smartphones in 10 countries last week, after 35 instances of Note 7s catching fire or exploding were confirmed.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dude should’ve bought himself a real iPhone instead of a patent-infringing piece of exploding shit from a South Korean dishwasher maker. Then he’d still have his tricked-out Jeep.
Jeep charging a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (left) and a Jeep charging an Apple iPhone (right)
what’s even worse is that one of their big shipping companies, Hanjin, has gone bankrupt and is holding Samsung $38 million of Samsung goods hostage. guess they don’t know they have potentially explosive cargo. while it’s not that much inventory, shipping for Samsung is about to get more expensive for this holiday season as Apple has already booked out all the shipping inventory.
Let’s hope Scamsham fills up the court dockets with lawsuits filed against them and juries not in the mood to be lenient nor shy about additional heavy penalty judgments.
I suspect that it was a ‘financial’ fire. The man was ‘shopping’ at yard sales and had a ‘service’ dog and his only pride in life was his ‘heavily upgraded’ (over insured) truck and he chose a Samsung phone on top of it all. Can you spell trailer trash?
SUV=sport utility: a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
So I guess unambitious cheapskates have it comin’ then after all eh? Scamsham sure is practicing a sneaky kind of domestic terrorism against people of lesser means, intentional or not.
They’re all over sites like Imgur EvilMilk, etc., etc., cracking wise about what a fail Apple, iPhone 7, and AirPods are, and how Apple users are such duped losers.
They’re even more wretched and pathetic bunch than the old Windows lemmings.
I know, hilarious isn’t it? SamSplode phones have become lethal weapons and the media mostly ignores it and it’s importance. While Apple would never hear the end of it for years to come from the media, Fandroid trolls and knuckleheads.
I think I did. Glad you like it (with apologies to Sam Spade.) I like it too. 😉
Oh, karma, sweet karma. Sweetest when served cold 😉
”Supporting Hanjin’s Chapter 15 U.S. Bankruptcy Court petition, Samsung said in a court filing Tuesday that without an order protecting the shipping line against creditors, the vessels won’t be able to dock, causing the South Korean electronics maker losses that may “continue to escalate so long as the cargo aboard these ships remains unloaded.”
Poll: What will Samsung to do with all the recalled phones?
• Re-package as firestarters for camping
• Donate to fire departments for training purposes
• Rocket them into the sun
• Stuff them into the Samsung quality testing team pants
CNN Money is now reporting the FAA is warning passengers not to turn on or charge these Samsung phones on planes. They also are telling passengers not to stow them in checked baggage. Wow!
Some thoughts on the new FAA restrictions and airline bans:
Airline crews are typically very busy and don’t have the time to investigate if someone is using a Note 7, a Note 5, etc. My guess is the flight crew will be telling anyone using a Samsung phone to power it off and/or not charge it. I’m sure some passengers will be informing the crew that certain people could possibly have Samsung roulette bomb phones.
Of course these actions will anger some of these Samsung customers, especially those that have long flights, or those that need to do business on their Samsung phones. There probably will be arguments and some of these Samsung phone bomb holders will either get kicked off flights or be subdued by flight marshals. Can you imagine traveling to a sales meeting and needing to brush up on some critical notes, but the flight attendant scolds you to power-off your portable bomb device? That’s a bad flight, and a lost sale.
I wish I felt worse about this, but it’s so well deserved for this company. I echo the sentiment above of multiple lawsuits hitting them, and these will actually be legitimate instead of someone complaint about having 1gb less storage than they’re supposed too because they can’t divide by 8. Seriously I just read the FAA thing, and I hope it is pushed massively. I wonder what the reaction from the fan droid idiots will be if one of these takes down a plane….
Don’t get me wrong, I still feel really bad for this guy and his family, but honestly he should stay up with the rest of us tonight and order a real phone. God damn Samsung deserves this so much. But media? Hello??? This phone burned down a guys house, blew up a car, and nearly killed a guy in a hotel room while setting it on fire. But I guess that’s not a problem, but a signal strength indicator incorrectly coded is the worst thing in the world? You watch, someone willl get a jet black iPhone, scratch it with a set of keys, and suddenly it’ll be a “scandal” and all kinds of other bullshit, scratchgate, etc… but a phone that literally blows up and destroys property and could kill you, which isn’t allowed on airplanes? Non issue. Fucking pricks. I hate this false equivalency nonsense, and blowing things that aren’t real problems completely out of proportion while ignoring real actual ones.
Spending millions to recall a 1 in 1,000,000 failure rate!
I think the problem is a lot, lot more than the 35 to which they acknowledge.
I also suspect they knew about this problem way before this all blew up (so to speak,) hence their ability to react so fast.
I think you’re absolutely right. I tried to explain to one of the idiots the other day that you don’t issue a recall unless the problem effects more devices than the 1-3% rma rate that is normal in their products. Samsung said it effects 1 in 42,000 devices… uh huh… that’s just the reported ones divided into the number recalled. But they would never issue a recall unless this problem is much, much worse than that. And I also think that they knew about this potential issue as well, especially since they haven’t issued a recall with the consumer safety bureau, if that’s ever proven they are in serious trouble.
Ok a brighter note: ordered one iPhone 7 256 jet black earlier this morning. 🙂
7 256 Black for me, 7+ 256 Rose Gold for my partner. I was tempted by the camera to order the + for me but having tried using her 6+ I decided the larger size is too big.
I’m betting I could dig up more than 35 individually burned or exploded Galaxy Note 7 photos off the net. There are dozens at this point. I suspect someone is going to post a long slide show of them all over at YouTube in the near future. (It won’t be me).
That picture is messed up, man…
Dude upgraded the wrong toy.
I cannot afford Samsung and replace my cars and houses later. Using iPhone comes cheaper.
I feel really bad for this guy, and I’m glad the dog knew to get the fuck out of the car and no one was hurt.
But seriously… Don’t buy Samsung garbage. Just don’t. Get a real iPhone.
Now, even a dog will consider a Sami phone a bad idea.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Good take MDN
what’s even worse is that one of their big shipping companies, Hanjin, has gone bankrupt and is holding Samsung $38 million of Samsung goods hostage. guess they don’t know they have potentially explosive cargo. while it’s not that much inventory, shipping for Samsung is about to get more expensive for this holiday season as Apple has already booked out all the shipping inventory.
iPhones fly airfreight, not over the ocean.
Samsung can put their Galaxy Note 7 phones on the Hindenberg Express Air. Dang, that didn’t work out too well…
Let’s hope Scamsham fills up the court dockets with lawsuits filed against them and juries not in the mood to be lenient nor shy about additional heavy penalty judgments.
I suspect that it was a ‘financial’ fire. The man was ‘shopping’ at yard sales and had a ‘service’ dog and his only pride in life was his ‘heavily upgraded’ (over insured) truck and he chose a Samsung phone on top of it all. Can you spell trailer trash?
A Jeep is not a truck unless it is a Jeep pick up.
SUV=sport utility: a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
So I guess unambitious cheapskates have it comin’ then after all eh? Scamsham sure is practicing a sneaky kind of domestic terrorism against people of lesser means, intentional or not.
No. Watch the video…
“I’m never going to let another Samsung product into my house.”
A news report showing the burned Jeep and an interview with the Samsung-victim. Oops, he used to buy iPhones. *regrets*
So…. Where’s all the outrage and click bait headlines? Where’s the “BatteryGate” viral thingy? Where are all the Android trolls and shills?
Imagine if even ONE iPhone battery did this. Would be all over the world in a flash.
They’re all over sites like Imgur EvilMilk, etc., etc., cracking wise about what a fail Apple, iPhone 7, and AirPods are, and how Apple users are such duped losers.
They’re even more wretched and pathetic bunch than the old Windows lemmings.
I know, hilarious isn’t it? SamSplode phones have become lethal weapons and the media mostly ignores it and it’s importance. While Apple would never hear the end of it for years to come from the media, Fandroid trolls and knuckleheads.
I don’t know if you originated the “SamSplode” name, but it is accurate and spot on.
I think I did. Glad you like it (with apologies to Sam Spade.) I like it too. 😉
Oh, karma, sweet karma. Sweetest when served cold 😉
”Supporting Hanjin’s Chapter 15 U.S. Bankruptcy Court petition, Samsung said in a court filing Tuesday that without an order protecting the shipping line against creditors, the vessels won’t be able to dock, causing the South Korean electronics maker losses that may “continue to escalate so long as the cargo aboard these ships remains unloaded.”
If the story is true about Samsung phones being stuck on Hanjin shipping containers, then Hanjin may have just saved someone’s life.
Poll: What will Samsung to do with all the recalled phones?
• Re-package as firestarters for camping
• Donate to fire departments for training purposes
• Rocket them into the sun
• Stuff them into the Samsung quality testing team pants
Maybe just replace the batteries.
Samsung is a POS!!! 💩
Galaxy Note 7 phone charging is like lighting a sustained fart with a match.
CNN Money is now reporting the FAA is warning passengers not to turn on or charge these Samsung phones on planes. They also are telling passengers not to stow them in checked baggage. Wow!
Samsung is shit.apple is overpriced shit.who cares😂
Samesong finally got a case in court against Apple and would argue at least they didn’t copy ‘explode’ feature, HAHAHA!!!
Some thoughts on the new FAA restrictions and airline bans:
Airline crews are typically very busy and don’t have the time to investigate if someone is using a Note 7, a Note 5, etc. My guess is the flight crew will be telling anyone using a Samsung phone to power it off and/or not charge it. I’m sure some passengers will be informing the crew that certain people could possibly have Samsung roulette bomb phones.
Of course these actions will anger some of these Samsung customers, especially those that have long flights, or those that need to do business on their Samsung phones. There probably will be arguments and some of these Samsung phone bomb holders will either get kicked off flights or be subdued by flight marshals. Can you imagine traveling to a sales meeting and needing to brush up on some critical notes, but the flight attendant scolds you to power-off your portable bomb device? That’s a bad flight, and a lost sale.
Forget the Airlines, NSA security should confiscate the phones as they try to enter the airport.
I wish I felt worse about this, but it’s so well deserved for this company. I echo the sentiment above of multiple lawsuits hitting them, and these will actually be legitimate instead of someone complaint about having 1gb less storage than they’re supposed too because they can’t divide by 8. Seriously I just read the FAA thing, and I hope it is pushed massively. I wonder what the reaction from the fan droid idiots will be if one of these takes down a plane….
Don’t get me wrong, I still feel really bad for this guy and his family, but honestly he should stay up with the rest of us tonight and order a real phone. God damn Samsung deserves this so much. But media? Hello??? This phone burned down a guys house, blew up a car, and nearly killed a guy in a hotel room while setting it on fire. But I guess that’s not a problem, but a signal strength indicator incorrectly coded is the worst thing in the world? You watch, someone willl get a jet black iPhone, scratch it with a set of keys, and suddenly it’ll be a “scandal” and all kinds of other bullshit, scratchgate, etc… but a phone that literally blows up and destroys property and could kill you, which isn’t allowed on airplanes? Non issue. Fucking pricks. I hate this false equivalency nonsense, and blowing things that aren’t real problems completely out of proportion while ignoring real actual ones.
Kingsford wishes they had a product that worked so well. 😉
Insurance companies should charge extra for people with Sammies!!
“Thermonuclear.”–Phrophet Steve Jobs
Man did he call it!
Samsung’s approach to Lightning charging.
Spending millions to recall a 1 in 1,000,000 failure rate!
I think the problem is a lot, lot more than the 35 to which they acknowledge.
I also suspect they knew about this problem way before this all blew up (so to speak,) hence their ability to react so fast.
Samsung. Setting our world on fire!
I think you’re absolutely right. I tried to explain to one of the idiots the other day that you don’t issue a recall unless the problem effects more devices than the 1-3% rma rate that is normal in their products. Samsung said it effects 1 in 42,000 devices… uh huh… that’s just the reported ones divided into the number recalled. But they would never issue a recall unless this problem is much, much worse than that. And I also think that they knew about this potential issue as well, especially since they haven’t issued a recall with the consumer safety bureau, if that’s ever proven they are in serious trouble.
Ok a brighter note: ordered one iPhone 7 256 jet black earlier this morning. 🙂
7 256 Black for me, 7+ 256 Rose Gold for my partner. I was tempted by the camera to order the + for me but having tried using her 6+ I decided the larger size is too big.
I’m betting I could dig up more than 35 individually burned or exploded Galaxy Note 7 photos off the net. There are dozens at this point. I suspect someone is going to post a long slide show of them all over at YouTube in the near future. (It won’t be me).
Why would anyone want an exchange with Samsung. Sell the POS back to Apple Haters. LOL Better yet get your money back and buy the real thing. iPhone!
Inside the Jeep:
