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A Florida man has leaped onto the Dell laptop explosion bandwagon by claiming his house was burnt to a crisp because a Dell laptop ignited his couch on fire. At about 5 a.m. Louis Minnear awoke to the smell of an electrical fire, after quickly surveying his house and finding nothing, he went back to bed. Forty-five minutes later he was awoken again, except this time to his couch on fire.

The story gets a little odder. Minnear quickly led his family out of the house and began making trips in an out saving what valuables he could before the flame got too big. Conveniently two of the family members—Minnear's oldest sons—were staying with other family at the time of the fire. The fire marshal has been called in for an investigation to find the true cause of the fire, but Minnear insists it was the Dell laptop that he conveniently knew was left on the couch sitting on papers.The most notable belongings lost was a collection of 843 DVDs, according to the family.



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[ This Message was edited by: deepsme on 2006-08-21 17:26 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-21 18:20:27
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to be fair.. i've got about 1k cd's that would need to be accounted for if my room went up in flames...

fatreg
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Posted: 2006-08-21 20:22:59
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That's a house? It looks like a garden shed.....Were exactly would one have put 800+ dvd's in a space like that?

I would say this is just the beginning for Dell!
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Posted: 2006-08-22 12:08:06
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Dell had it coming to them afer the 'exploding incident.' He should have known better than to leave a dangerous Dell laptop all alone on the couch by itself anyway...
There was a recall.
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Posted: 2006-08-22 14:50:34
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perhaps after all this incident, Dell will produce a more better quality laptop in term of safety precaution.. but there's a news on my local newspaper saying that Dell recall to collect all the battery ( im sure its pointed on the laptop ) from all over the world? is that true? .. anyone aware of this news?
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Posted: 2006-08-22 14:57:22
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On 2006-08-22 14:57:22, QuickShare™ wrote:
perhaps after all this incident, Dell will produce a more better quality laptop in term of safety precaution.. but there's a news on my local newspaper saying that Dell recall to collect all the battery ( im sure its pointed on the laptop ) from all over the world? is that true? .. anyone aware of this news?



Yes,its true,read it here...

http://news.com.com/Dell+to+recall+4+million+batteries/2100-1044_3-6105486.html?tag=nefd.hicomp
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Posted: 2006-08-22 15:13:32
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oh thanks for the link mate.. been searching for the newspaper in a while
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Posted: 2006-08-22 15:45:56
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