Defective & Dangerous Products

• Taser 12 Gauge

  Joe Saunders | March 06, 2006 7:04 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Outrageous but true: in the midst of mounting public concern over its dangerous stun gun, Taser International has developed and plans to market a 12 gauge shotgun so that its users can fire from a greater distance! That's just brilliant! In the face of a public outcry over safety concerns and more than 100 deaths in the wake of Taser use, the company wants consumers to be able to fire the...

• EPA Requests Reduced Use of Teflon Chemical

  Joe Saunders | March 05, 2006 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The chemical manufacturers use to make Teflon, perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, have been asked by the EPA to reduce and eventually eliminate its use due to its carcinogenic properties. Teflon is used in a wide range of consumer goods, including nonstick cookware, waterproof clothing, and food packaging. Currently, the EPA hasn't established safe levels of PFOA exposure. After reviewing an EPA...

• Orlando Jury Rules Against Cop in Taser Case

  Joe Saunders | March 04, 2006 7:03 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In what is thought to be the first Taser lawsuit against a cop, a fedral civil jury found in favor of the plaintiff and awarded him $100,000 in punitive damages. The case stemmed from a June 2003 traffic incident during which Dontray Chaney was pulled out of his car and forcibly thrown to the ground for having an obscured license plate. Originally, he was charged with resisting arrest without...

• Lead Poisoning Treatment Linked to Deaths in Children

  Joe Saunders | March 03, 2006 7:03 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The CDC has linked a drug used to treat lead poisoning with cardiac arrest in children. Hospira, Inc, the maker of the drug Endrate, had no comment after the CDC released its results. Mary Jean Brown, chief of the CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, said hospital pharmacies should consider whether stocking Endrate is necessary, given its risks and the availability of other...

• Tasered 6 year old boy's Family Sues Police

  Joe Saunders | March 03, 2006 6:52 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In an article published in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel parents of a 6 year old boy will sue the police department that fired a taser at the young boy after a confrontation in the school office. First of all, how can you call this a confrontation? How is it possible the police or anyone else for that matter, have to resort to a Taser gun to control a six year old? He's six years old and a...

• Florida Legislature to Debate Taser Use

  Joe Saunders | March 02, 2006 5:49 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  There's a well-balanced, thoughtful editorial in the Palm Beach Post this morning that is worth a read on tasers. The upcoming legislative debate over taser use comes in light of the tragic and unnecessary death of a Ft. Pierce man. Samuel Hair of Fort Pierce was suffering from mental illness not criminal behavior at the time of his death. He was also wearing a pacemaker. Hair had called...

• 3 Police Officers on Leave After Taser Death

  Joe Saunders | March 01, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A second Fort Pierce police officer and an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the death of Samuel F. Hair Jr. Hair, 48, was given a Taser shock by police the night of Feb. 21 in the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute emergency room and died at the hospital Friday after being taken off life...

• Victoria's Secret Product Recalled

  Joe Saunders | February 27, 2006 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The following recall notice was published in News Inferno:The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Victoria's Secret Direct, of Columbus, Ohio, have announced the voluntary recall of some 500 Silk Kimono Tops manufactured in the United States by Single of Los Angeles, California. Consumers should stop using the product immediately.Of the 500 units manufactured by Single, 57 were sold to...

• Fort Pierce Man Dies After Being Tasered in Emergency Room

  Joe Saunders | February 26, 2006 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 48 year old Ft. Pierce man died after being tasered by police in a hospital ER. Samuel Hair, who used a pacemaker, was shocked with a Taser on Tuesday night after he became unruly in the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute. He stopped moving after being hit twice with the weapon, which the manufacturer advertises as a nonlethal law enforcement tool. Jim...

• Man Catches Fire after Hit by Taser

  Joe Saunders | February 23, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A Daytona Beach man caught fire after being tasered by police. He caught fire when a probe from a police Taser gun hit a butane lighter in his pocket and set him on fireA Taser probe hit a disposable butane lighter in his shirt pocket and ignited. Officers then rolled him to the ground to put out the flames