Matsushita recalls 68,000 potentially fiery massage chairs

We're all very aware of how often Li-ion batteries have been on the literal hot seat over the past year or so, but now it looks like Matsushita has yet another recall to deal with outside of those overheating laptop batteries. The company best known for its Panasonic brand has recalled 68,762 of its electric massage chairs after two cases were reported of the "internal motor burning out" and sparking fires. Thankfully, no one was injured while getting all the kinks worked out of their spine, but considering there are much safer ways to heat your bottom while kicked back in a recliner, we doubt the unadvertised warming functions were appreciated. So if you just so happen to own one of these vibrating chairs, you should probably make haste in pulling the plug and phoning Matsushita for an RMA number.

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[Scabies @ Jan 31st 2007 12:14PM]

Sigh, gone are the days where the hazard was the fault of the end user and not the manufacturer...

[elbow @ Jan 31st 2007 1:11PM]

heh, this should light a fire under owners' asses to get the thing repaired...

[Nabil @ Jan 31st 2007 1:58PM]

StinkyCh**k

But what do you do if you live in a city that doesn't have those massage Parlors ?

[Jon @ Jan 31st 2007 3:13PM]

I can't believe 68 thousand people ever bought those things!