Sour Apples are those that explode in your pocket and not in your mouth. Apple is being sued by a mother who says his son suffered second degree burns due to his iPod Touch exploding in his pants pocket claiming damages and attorney’s fees to the tune of a hundred thousand plus. Just can’t understand a child with an iPod Touch in school who may have had tons of stuff in his pockets that may have caused the burns. She takes the child to the hospital for treatment that came out to $15.00, with a few bucks for the pants and the underwear which also suffered. Why $100,000 +, well the lawyer seems to want the company to pay for the mental anguish the child is to go through that resulted from the burn(he may have not had the facilities to process the fact he ran into the bathroom to take off his pants with the help of another boy, he’ll get it in a couple of years). Wow, mental anguish, that’s how they call the boy’s suffering in spite of the millions of Americans without jobs, health insurance or homes.
The lawyer also claims to involve ten of the Apple employees in his lawsuit(10 people to sell one iPod Touch eh) for they have failed in one way or the other to properly test and detect the defect in the said product. The gadget has Lithium Poly batteries that are more powerful and easy to mold into any shape desired(attributed to be the reason for the success of the iPod and iPhone series of gadgets) but just so happens to be quite dangerous and is known to really explode. The industry has heard and analyzed the story, the burns are more likely to be chemical burns as the battery shorted out causing a catastrophic failure of the cells.
The point of all this ranting? Why does a grade schooler have an iPod Touch in his pocket, it should’ve been in his bag or something that would not place any stress on the fragile gadget. Apple should address the issue but i doubt if they’ll shell out $100,000 dollars to pay for a piece of underwear, a pair of pants, $15.00 in bandages and last but not least the “mental anguish”(here’s a copy of the legal complaint). They should start by revising their manuals that must have a special booklet for parents to tell their kids not to place their iPod Touch’s in their pockets and that parents should advise them of the dangers of sticking them in there along with the several other stuff they manage to fit in there or risk getting their, you know what blown off or burned. Better yet, why not tell them not to bring them to school and leave them at home. Come on parents, be responsible, we all want the best for our kids but having them with them in school is kinda’ bit too spoiling.