Home Depot Is Recalling Ceiling Fans For Detaching Blades. Also, Good Luck Sleeping Tonight!
More 190,000 ceiling fans sold at The Home Depot have been recalled amid reports its blades can detach while in use and cause injury or property damage.
The King of Fans recalled its Hampton Bay 54-inch Mara Indoor/Outdoor fans after the company has received 47 reports of the blade detaching from the fan, including two reports of the fan blade hitting a consumer and four reports of the blade causing property damage, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
via NBC News
Remember back in March when we were encouraged to stay at home for our own safety? Well now, in a plot twist straight out of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, it turns out we’re not even safe at home anymore.
Feeling a little warm at home? Maybe flip on the fan to get a little air flow going aaaand…
Boom! You’re dead!
Yeah, no thanks. I’ll pay the higher energy bill and flip on the A/C, because I know my air conditioner isn’t going to turn on me like it’s one of the machines in Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive. I’d rather not deal with fans that are more violent than Raiders fans apparently. Because it’s not like this happened once. It’s not like it happened twice. This happened FORTY-SEVEN times… THAT WE KNOW OF! Hell, how many decapitated heads are rolling around their bedrooms right now that never had the chance to report this issue? It says in that article that two times the blade hit a consumer (alarming) and four times the blade caused property damage. PROPERTY DAMAGE! Uhhh, ya think? Not surprised a blade can come unhinged and destroy an entire living room. Blades are used to cut grass, to shave beards, and if they come flying off my ceiling fan, they’re probably going to kill me and/or my decor.
This is just the *chef’s kiss* to add on to what has been an awful year. We’ve withstood the worry of a global pandemic, a presidential election, and the Patriots maybe being good without Tom Brady, but now we have to add household appliances to this? Now we have to worry about our ceiling fans King Charles The First-ing us? Again, no thanks. If you need me, I won’t be flipping on my ceiling fan ever again.
