Posted on 12/18/2024 2:04:03 AM PST by CFW
A man from Trimont, Minnesota, was severely injured when his rechargeable heated insoles exploded inside his boot.
Mikaela Morris shared images online Friday of her husband Tyler’s injured foot and is urging people not to buy rechargeable heated apparel products, KENS 5 reported on Monday.
Mikaela said the insoles were not turned on when the incident happened and she rushed him to an emergency room for medical attention. Doctors later contacted the burn center at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) regarding the case.
Tyler bought the insoles from Amazon in 2023 for outside activities. The insoles were sold by a China-based company known as iHeat. However, the KENS article noted the product is no longer available on the site.
When Breitbart News searched Tuesday for “heated apparel” on Amazon, we found numerous items such as heated jackets, vests, and scarves.
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He kicked off his boot and the insole was in pieces. Tyler noted a doctor told him he was the third victim of the same problem she had seen in one week.
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Now that’s a hotfoot!
The ChiComs don’t give a damn about quality or safety. It’s all about turning a profit on their crap products. They will even deliberately put incorrect safety information on the packaging: saying the product is compliant with testing standards when it really is not.
Then I suppose they have a good laugh when the Americans buy their junk.
The best solution is to return industry to America. That is, of course, a major goal of Trump’s.
These thermal soles are a hot item on Amazon.
You too can score big on the Ghetto lottery.
Buy these heated insoles from a large American company. Mess around with them to make the battery overheat. Your feet get burned. Sue for injuries and mental and emotional trauma. Claim that your sex life is now nonexistent.
Your lawyers can easily extract a few millions of dollars from the sellers. Say LL Bean.
Imagine if your were out hunting and your feet started burning up from these Communist heated insoles. Then simultaneously, your hunt buddy shot a bear up in the tree, that fell on you.
No specific to this case, but this is one of the big problems with 'the law' in the US. You can get entirely screwed by unscrupulous people, or have false charges against you (like Trump, General Flynn, and many others) and have to pay a fortune to get good representation. And, you are at the mercy of biased and unknowledgeable juries.
On the other hand, you can have a fender bender, complain of neck pain, wear a cervical collar though you don't need it, and make a windfall.
“On the other hand, you can have a fender bender, complain of neck pain, wear a cervical collar though you don’t need it, and make a windfall.”
Lawyers love these soft tissue injuries. They do not show up on X-rays. So they cannot be proven or disproven. The “proof” is what the jury hears from the claimant. About his pain and suffering.
You want to claim broken bones? These do show on x-rays.
That was one crazy story...almost "Bee-like".
“...a doctor told him he was the third victim of the same problem she had seen in one week.”
The problem with anything that relies on lithium batteries that comes into contact with water is demonstrated in this 30 second video:
https://x.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1868777253041324063
Thermal soles could make ya light in the loafers, as it turns out.
“The problem with anything that relies on lithium batteries that comes into contact with water is demonstrated in this 30 second video”
6 months ago I tried changing the battery on a Samsung phone. I was almost there. When the battery started smoking. I hustled it outside, where it started to flame and self immolate. So...... I feel buddy-ship with this hotfoot hunter. Only diff is he can sue, while I cannot.
This worked out OK, I got a great deal on a new n improved Sammy that I like 5x better. That will last for years. Because I only slow charge it and only up to 80%. Plus lots of android updates come with this A25
Exactly... I used to ride my Harley when it was in the 20s ana a few times in the teens. Blue ball runs!! I dressed warm, others plugged their “heated apparel” in and I won’t say what I called them.
Hunting in cold weather you just dress warm and understand when to say enoughs enough.
cold weather outdoorsmen in the know, knows, the first thing you put on your feet is your wife’s knee-high panty hose, then your synthetic socks (to wick moisture), then your cotton socks, then your wool socks. Toasty warm ;)
not to mention there’s now two places to worry about your sole being on fire.
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