“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)
