Posted on 08/19/2025 6:04:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Probably only sold to Republicans, right?
No. It sounds like they were just hair dryers from the 1990s-2000s without Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters.
Back in the early 1980s, I bought a hair dryer called Hot Stuff. It was recalled because customers didn’t like drying their hair over an open flame.
“Manufactured In:
China”
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https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Empower-Brands-Recalls-Remington-Hair-Dryers-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Electrocution-and-Shock-Hazards
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I think I found the problem
They didn’t name the missing devices. So, I suspect they forgot to include warning labels to refrain from using the hair dryers in the bathtub or shower.
Stupid crybabies. Persons who dry their hair in the tub should be electrocuted.
The author says the product “bypassed traditional brick-and-mortar retail safety checks”... what checks are those exactly? Have products sold through B&M stores never had a recall? Are recalls statistically more likely for products sold through eCommerce? The article doesn’t ask those questions nor, I suspect, do they care to. Garbage journalism.
Do toasters contain immersion protection devices? Toasters could be dangerous for someone reaching over to pull a popup snack from a toaster while sitting in a bathtub. It’s just like someone in the bathtub using a hairdryer.
“No injuries reported yet, but CPSC warns of serious electrocution risk if devices contact water while plugged in”
So what hand held electrical device doesn’t present that kind of danger if dropped into water? CPSC sounds like just another government money pit trying to justify its existence. By the way doesn’t AC plugs with ground fault interrupters provide that kind of protection?
The dryers are missing their GF modules.
Millions of older homes don’t have GF circuits, and eve those that do don’t have them on every outlet, usually just bathrooms, kitchen and outside.
That’s shocking!!
I miss the good old days when you expected your hair dryer to electrocute you if it contacted water.
Many on-line purchases come directly to your home from overseas manufacturers and distributors, bypassing the normal channels.....................
At least we still have toasters.
Yes next they will play with a toaster when taking a bath.
LOL...I was just going to say that!
They sold antique hair dryers.
How did we ever survive back then?
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