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I understand how pissed off the guy must be, but, lawyer up?
I understand how pissed off the guy must be, but, lawyer up?
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Lawyer up? Depends--- what do you want out of this? Are you trying to turn this into a payday or do you just want an apology and an assurance that they'll solve the problem from the manufacturer?
No one was hurt and you're taking steps to notify the right people that there was a problem. I don't see why there's any need to drag one of the local ambulance chasers into the mix.
The only reason I would see him wanting to lawyer up is looking for a payday. You find a razor inside it, ok...take it out, make sure there are no other issues and use the product. If there are any issues or injuries, then there may be a reason.
I understand the fear you get with a new kid and the paranoia that accompanies it, but call the company and issue a complaint to make sure they don't have a widespread problem. If you fear the safety of the product for any reason, ask them for a replacement or even return it.
Lawyer up? Disgusting.
I don't see a problem with suing. What if the razor was delibrately placed there by a malicious employee?
I suspect the product was manufactured in China and that razor blades are used as cutting instruments during the manufacturing process, and one of those blades made its way into the product itself.
See what the company says first before taking any action. Considering their line of business, I'm sure someone there will be mortified.
\"Is it time to lawyer up?\" \" I'm about to call the local news and get some reporters over here.\"
Finding that razor blade was probably the high point of this guy's day. He didn't say if the box was sealed, it could have been some razor-distributing nutjob walking throught the baby aisle at Target.
Damn right he should lawyer up if he wants to. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't have a kid, period.
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Getting a lawyer is like selling your sole to the devil over something like this.
However...
If you bought it for a gift and tried to board a plane with it in your carry on.... hmmm. Here devil!
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A lawyer? Please. This is what's wrong with the world. Nobody was hurt. Call the company that made the product and see what happens.
This is why I have a job (insurance adjuster), people love to lawyer up over everything before giving anyone a chance to make things right. Let the at fault people act in bad faith before you go right to suing, that lawyer is going to automatically take some of the money you may have gotten anyway.
If the razor blade was placed in there by a malicious worker, there would be no real recourse against the company as they did not allow it and the worker was not doing this within the scope of his duties. If it was an accident (like someone dropping the razor while working) then it was just that...an accident.
No need for a lawyer unless there was an injury, even then allow people at least a couple of days to try to make it right. money, other than the medical bills, won't help the healing process or make the booboo better.
Just contact the proper people to let them now and see where it goes, the news people may actually help make sure the manufacturer checks the rest of the line of these products but that's about it.
I agree with WindowSeat, the fact he wants to \"Lawyer up\" is disgusting. Be thankful your baby was not injured for godssakes.
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Getting a lawyer to take this through an already-clogged court system is going to do little other than wasting lots of time that this new dad could be spending with his new baby. Frankly, if I was the lawyer for the defendant company in this case, I'd be asking the court to prove that it wasn't the FATHER who put it there himself, out for a quick buck from my client. Do you see where this is going?
Taking the higher road in this case is the wisest thing to do, IMHO. Accept the apologies, try to hit them up for some free gift cards or compensation and move on (preferably WITHOUT any more products from this company) :)
a breast feed for 5 bucks? what a deal!
but the razor blade is sooo cute! it says \"happy bird\". what child wouldn't love that?
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Actually, this is just a product placement project by Happy Bird razor blades. Get one free with every purchase of a Close & Secure Sleeper.
I understand how he feels. I found a bone in a jar of Gerber baby food and the Gerber rep acted like I was overreacting. Then asked me to send in the 'specimen' and called it a deposit of fat. That was NOT fat. So, yeah when it comes to your kids you get like a lioness protecting her young. I doubt he'll get a lawyer, he was just REALLY pissed and I mean REALLY. I would call the company and raise as much hell as I could. A 5 day-old baby sleeping on a razor blade; there's a lot of stuff to worry about when they're that little, razors in the bedding should NOT be one of them.
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He may want to check the box to make sure his wife didn't buy the \"Close and Secure Sleeper with Free Bonus Home Circumcision Kit\"
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too bad it wasn't a rusty Craftsman blade. He could return it to Sears for a new one.
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'learning curve' indeed.
Lets hope the manufacturer looks into the mater to prevent it happening again; that really ought to be everyone's goal here. I hope Target is also going to speak with the manufacturer.
Case closed.
The blade was just to make it more \"secure\". In case of intruder, the baby can attack with his blade of justice.
Maybe his baby has a substance abuse problem. Or is already a cutter. I smell intervention. And who drinks Lime Flavored Dite Coke. ew.
I can understand getting mad, I would too. But I've always looked over anything I buy that I'm going to be sleeping on/in, or wearing, before using it. More so if it's to be used by a baby. Not looking for razors (well, now I will) but for those straight pins that are sometimes in clothes. Plus I wash stuff before use since you never know who's messed with it before it got to your house.
Maybe the manufacturer is preparing for the next generation of children which will go beyond emo kids. Get them started early with the whole cutting themselves thing, then they'll move on to more extreme forms of self mutilation.
@The Gigante: @The Gigante: Probably the thousands of grandmothers around the country who always order their diet cokes \"with a slice of lime\". This lady is apparently just getting ready for the mass spawn shes getting ready to produce.
That's a chinease or asian razor is my guess. Look at the writing on the bottom of it. Chances are it happened at the factory where they have them made over seas and it accidently got into the packaging.
I don't blame the company however if they were smart they should just refund the guy the cost of the mini bed just to be nice and show some good faith.
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Come on, give the guy a break. He doesn't know what to do, and is asking for advice. He isn't looking for a payday, unless he flew to china and pick up some razor blades. Those aren't Gilettes.
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Nuts to the diet lime Coke (seriously, diet sodas blow), who knew you could get a breast feed at target for 5 bucks?
Remember that lady who found a whole chicken head in her KFC and said she was going to sue? Nobody got hurt, so there was no case.
Same thing here.
Anyway, who says \"lawyer up\" unless they have $ $ in their eyes.
@yzerman: Exactly- probably fell out of someone's cutter, or dropped by a worker using it to trim threads. Everyone wants a responsible well made product, but they want it at rock bottom prices- these sorts of incidents are only going to increase with the demnand for cheap Chinese crap.
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Well, it's obvious that the \"Happy Bird\" razor blade got in there at the point of manufacture. I don't think you could by such a thing outside of Malaysia or China or wherever the thing is manufactured. My guess it fell in accidentally, or the factory where it was made has some really evil and angry workers.
About the only think you could do is ask Target to contact their manufacturer. I don't think there's any other way to deal with it. I don't think there's any need to get a lawyer involved at this point, particularly since there was no injury.
I think it's a good wakeup call for parents to check anything and everything you give to your child.
As a mom-to-be, this is pretty scary. It just impresses upon me how carefully I need to inspect the things I get for the baby!
And why didn't this couple WASH the bedding before putting their kid on it? They would have found the razor blade sooner!
Okay, let's give the guy a break...he probably hasn't had a full night's sleep for days, and if memory serves, he probably isn't going to have one for at least six weeks more. I agree that it's much too soon for a lawyer, and anyhow, he has no case because no one was harmed. Taking it up with Target and the manufacturer first is the only reasonable course of action. Yes, it's scary, and yes it was preventable, and yes, it shouldn't have happened. But, and I say this with all the awesome conviction of having been a parent for ten months, there are other, scarier things ahead, and it's best to conserve your energy for when something bad inevitably does happen, rather than freaking out when something almost did. Take all this excitement and go and do something nice for your wife. She needs your attention more than we do.
Don't worry, the migrant Chinese laborer with the slippery fingers who dropped his (or her) razor blade will be dead by the end of the week once this story gets emailed to the company and then forwarded on to the factory managers. No lawyers needed.
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.....I didn't even know they made razor blades like that anymore! I nearly sheared off an earlobe with one of those \"safety razors\" when I was 13.
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Is it just me or does the razor look like it has chinese writting on the lower part of it?
The guy is definitly right to start a shit storm over this. You shouldn't have razor's in any product, that should be obvious, but least of all in baby products! Hopefully he's able to cause enough of a fuss that the manufacturers take extra steps to make sure it doesn't happen again, likesay, instead of using thin, small, hard to track razors, putting them inside a larger handle (like a box cutter).
I think it's obvious that this happened in the mannufacturing process. No evil customers, no disgruntled target employees...it more than likely slipped out of the 11-year-old girl's hand who was rending the final stray threads from the item right before she slipped into light unconsciousness (i.e. her daily break as mandated by the American company's worker's rights contract). The 12-year-old girl (worker-safety manager and chief box folder, stapler, and stacker) next to her must have missed it as she was simply too busy trying to breathe warm air onto her dry chapped hands in the cold, cold factory. Too bad for them both, their organs will fetch good money on the black market.
Still, it's one accident out of how many products? How can Learning Curve expect to monitor these safety issues? They'd have to re-import the items back into American factories and pay some poor immigrant worker at least minimum wage to oversee a project of that magnitude. That could add up to hundreds, if not a couple thousand, dollars. I wouldn't stand for it.
Its shit like this that scares the living fuck out of me about becoming a dad.