Honda Recalls Exploding Lawnmowers

[Mulboyne]

Consumer Product Safety Commission: Honda Recalls Lawn Mowers Due to Fire Hazard
Name of Product: Honda HRX217KHXA and HRX217KHMA Lawn Mowers

Units: About 22,000

Manufacturer: American Honda Motor Corp., of Torrance, Calif.

Hazard: Due to a manufacturing defect, a crack can occur in the fuel tank causing a fuel leak. If gasoline leaking from the fuel tank is ignited, a fire or explosion can occur.

[Greji]

Consumer Product Safety Commission: Honda Recalls Lawn Mowers Due to Fire Hazard

Chinese lawn movers won't burn. You can't light the lead paint!

[james]

are seriously overpriced and the electrical ones (i have two) are pathetic. they say "national" on them but remind me more of fisher price.

why is it 22 man for a lawnmower that is comparable to something that could be had in the u.s. or canada for a few hundred dollars? i'm sure some of it is supply and demand, given the lack of lawns here, but a lot of it just strikes me as outright price gouging. same for snowblowers.

[james]

here

i once saw a *used* one here for sale for 18 man though.

[GuyJean]

I thought they were purposely targeting the elderly with exploding gadgets.. to lower the tax burden on the young..

TVs should be next..

GJ

[james]

[quote="GuyJean"]I thought they were purposely targeting the elderly with exploding gadgets.. to lower the tax burden on the young.. ]

i say if you wanna blow up the elderly, and not a day i drive that this thought doesn't go through my head, (%$!ing silver-mark kei trucks and daihatsu miras) that your best bet would be those cell-phones with the jumbo sized keys.

[Iraira]

I thought they were purposely targeting the elderly with exploding gadgets.. to lower the tax burden on the young.. ]TVs [/B]should be next..GJ

That is a great concept, exploding transvestites that kill the elderly. I'd tune in every week to watch a program like that.
Get some sports announcers to cover the detonation, "Yeah, Bob do you see how the padding in shim's bra just burst into flames and spread to that oyaji with the ArtNature hair? Shim's high heels taking out that obaasan...she won't be shopping in Ginza for awhile after a blow to the dome like that."