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IKEA Recalls 29 Million Dressers

17,017 9,137 June 28, 2016 at 10:56 PM
IKEA is going to stop selling dressers that have been linked to the deaths of 6 children

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/201...er-recall/
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06-29-2016 at 08:43 PM.
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Nobody is going to sue IKEA? deaths of 6 children.
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Zoe Moon
06-29-2016 at 08:59 PM.
06-29-2016 at 08:59 PM.
Quote from xxxHolic :
Nobody is going to sue IKEA? deaths of 6 children.
The link in the OP didn't give all of the details. Ikea sold the dressers with a wall anchor included (or offered at customer service) and the instructions said it needed to be anchored to the wall to prevent tipping but a lot of people didn't do that step.
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06-30-2016 at 05:13 AM.
06-30-2016 at 05:13 AM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
The link in the OP didn't give all of the details. Ikea sold the dressers with a wall anchor included (or offered at customer service) and the instructions said it needed to be anchored to the wall to prevent tipping but a lot of people didn't do that step.
sheesh..drill holes in the wall for a stupid piece of furniture? thanks, but no thanks
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06-30-2016 at 06:02 AM.
06-30-2016 at 06:02 AM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
The link in the OP didn't give all of the details. Ikea sold the dressers with a wall anchor included (or offered at customer service) and the instructions said it needed to be anchored to the wall to prevent tipping but a lot of people didn't do that step.
second paragraph of the link - "Theodore McGhee died after an IKEA dresser tipped over and fell on him. Last year, IKEA put out a video to warn customers that these items could fall and also gave out 300,000 anchoring kits to help secure the dressers to a wall."
The very last sentance of the article gave a link to here - http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_i...d-dressers
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06-30-2016 at 06:45 AM.
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IKEA furniture is junk. When did we become a throw away society? Just buy cheap crappy products, use them for a couple years and toss them in the trash. Nasty species we are...said yoda.
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06-30-2016 at 07:18 AM.
06-30-2016 at 07:18 AM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
The link in the OP didn't give all of the details. Ikea sold the dressers with a wall anchor included (or offered at customer service) and the instructions said it needed to be anchored to the wall to prevent tipping but a lot of people didn't do that step.
Because people are farking stupid. This is why everything has to have a giant warning label anymore because people do stupid shit and then wonder why they get hurt or killed and then either they or their families sue the company that produced the product(and sometimes win).

Best example is the lady with the hot coffee at Mickey D's. She spilled the coffee all over her crotch because she was using her lap as a cup holder. But it was McDonald's fault because she didn't use an actual cup holder to put the cup in and the coffee was too hot. Duh. Coffee is hot.
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06-30-2016 at 08:21 AM.
06-30-2016 at 08:21 AM.
Quote from CheapestGamer :
Because people are farking stupid. This is why everything has to have a giant warning label anymore because people do stupid shit and then wonder why they get hurt or killed and then either they or their families sue the company that produced the product(and sometimes win).

Best example is the lady with the hot coffee at Mickey D's. She spilled the coffee all over her crotch because she was using her lap as a cup holder. But it was McDonald's fault because she didn't use an actual cup holder to put the cup in and the coffee was too hot. Duh. Coffee is hot.
You are ignorant of the facts, as that's actually a terrible example. Educate yourself before you continue to spew all over the place.
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06-30-2016 at 09:41 AM.
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You are ignorant of the facts, as that's actually a terrible example. Educate yourself before you continue to spew all over the place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie...estaurants

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On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant located at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe owned by her grandson Chris, which did not have cup holders, and Chris parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.
Sorry. But to me that sounds like she was at least partially at fault for using her lap(or knees) to hold the HOT coffee in place. Maybe the coffee was TOO hot, but coffee IS hot and I wouldn't situate it anywhere near me until it cools down.
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06-30-2016 at 10:02 AM.
06-30-2016 at 10:02 AM.
IKEA has always had the anti-tip braces/straps in their taller furniture kits. Most of the time people don't want to put them in or worse, anchor the furniture to drywall and not a stud. For IKEA furniture the risk of tipping is higher because, IMHO, while the doors and sides of the furniture are solid wood, the backs are usually thin almost cardboard-like material, which puts the cg of the entire unit more toward the front.

Regardless, it's absurd to hold the manufacturer liable when stupid people do stupid things.
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06-30-2016 at 10:13 AM.
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Quote from CheapestGamer :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants



Sorry. But to me that sounds like she was at least partially at fault for using her lap(or knees) to hold the HOT coffee in place. Maybe the coffee was TOO hot, but coffee IS hot and I wouldn't situate it anywhere near me until it cools down.
Read this and you'll understand why the McDonald's coffee lawsuit wasn't frivolous.


There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds' scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. Here's the whole story.

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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06-30-2016 at 10:26 AM.
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Read this and you'll understand why the McDonald's coffee lawsuit wasn't frivolous.


There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds' scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. Here's the whole story.

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
While yes, the coffee should not have been THAT hot, the lady was also more than 20% to blame for the burns since she held it in her lap to try putting cream and sugar into it.

Plus that page you linked is more like a blog and as reliable imo as Wikipedia, which I linked.
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06-30-2016 at 11:05 AM.
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Quote from CheapestGamer :
While yes, the coffee should not have been THAT hot, the lady was also more than 20% to blame for the burns since she held it in her lap to try putting cream and sugar into it.

Plus that page you linked is more like a blog and as reliable imo as Wikipedia, which I linked.
I was being lazy about finding a more legitimate link but I had read the story in detail on an actual legit news site a few years ago. Keep in mind, most cars didn't have cup holders back when this happened, I've done the same thing, pulled out of the MickyD's driveway and parked to sugar my coffee. A lot of people did that back then.
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06-30-2016 at 01:03 PM.
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Quote from Zoe Moon :
I've done the same thing, pulled out of the MickyD's driveway and parked to sugar my coffee. A lot of people did that back then.
That is pretty negligent if you ask me.

You could have scalded the horse Smack
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06-30-2016 at 01:10 PM.
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Quote from Zoe Moon :
I was being lazy about finding a more legitimate link but I had read the story in detail on an actual legit news site a few years ago. Keep in mind, most cars didn't have cup holders back when this happened, I've done the same thing, pulled out of the MickyD's driveway and parked to sugar my coffee. A lot of people did that back then.
But they DID sell aftermarket holders that you could put on the floor. At least then the only thing that would've potentially been burned was the upholstery.
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