Barcadi sued over flaming rumMIAMI - A woman who was allegedly severely burned by flaming rum during a Bacardi promotion is suing the wine and spirits producer, claiming the product was defective and dangerous.
Danielle Alleyne, of Miami, was injured after she was doused with the flaming rum at a Miami night club in August 2002, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.
A bartender, who was not identified in the lawsuit, was pouring shots
when a customer lit a menu on fire and placed it in the stream of alcohol. A bottle of Bacardi 151 that was being used to pour the shots turned into a flame thrower and sent flaming rum all over Alleyne, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit alleges that Bacardi 151 proof rum
"emits a high volume of combustible and explosive vapor" which makes it "unreasonably dangerous" and defective.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14046590/now far be it from me to belittle this woman's real pain, but how is flammable liquor defective? isn't that a sign that the product is what it says it is? and why on earth is any sort of blame being put on bacardi when some dumbass is the one responsible for this...maybe she's just hoping for some cash in a settlement...
i hope the judge throws this out.