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1. Child among those hurt by a Thermomix.
As law firm Slater and Gordon explores a class action against Thermomix it’s been reported that a child is among the many hurt. It has also been reported that the local distributor made a profit of $40 million last year.
News Limited reports that Melbourne mother Heidi Brennan was cooking in a TM31 when it started to make a “strange sound”.
When she turned it and released the lid, the Thermomix exploded – all the while she was carrying her 16-month-old daughter Caitlin on her hip.
“The lid hit the roof and the Thermomix sprayed boiling hot water all over us,” Mrs Brennan said.
Mrs Brennan, a paramedic, immediately put her daughter in the shower to lessen the damage. Mrs Brennan had deep burns to both shoulders and an eye, her little girl burnt her arm. They were taken to hospital by ambulance. The next day, after they were released, Ms Brennan contacted Thermomix.
“They didn’t really care,” she told News Limited.
The mother and daughter had three weeks of treatment in a burns clinic.
The Herald Sun reports that Melbourne-based lawyers Slater and Gordon want to help take on a class action after it was revealed 87 people have been injured by the Thermomix.
Lawyer Barrie Woollacott said he was shocked by the number of reported injuries allegedly caused by Thermomix.
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Un-be-liev-able! Now common sense in limiting the intake of asylum seekers and immigrants into this country is called bigotry.
When will people realise/understand/comprehend/appreciate that we have no money; the coffers are empty; we can't afford to pay for all these ideas; there is no magic pudding to suddenly unleash millions, no make that billions, to support all the enormous handouts which would ensue.
But of course all the naysayers can do is trot out the insults to this common sense and call it bigotry, when it is no such thing. That comment is as weak as it is stupid.
This country is weighed down by handouts as it is and people want more of the same???
Madness.
Oh that's absurd. My parents migrated here.
Dad has a degree.
mum and dad have worked ever since they arrived. - and pay tax
My siblings and I all have degrees. In banking, social work and medicine. Please stop perpetuating these lies. Every single person in my family has a degree, in my extended family, there is a clin psych, pharmacist, doctor, osteo, teacher. Just to name a few.
Please stop this bigotry.
The coffers are not empty. If people are worried about an illiterate asylum seeker taking their job they really need to look at their own life decisions.
Good for you and your family, but please don't dismiss other people's concerns for a very real problem; and also please stop labelling people with these ridiculous names of bigotry etc. just because we give/have an opinion which you don't like.
It's just scaremongering by both parties to see who can get to the bottom first
What a pervert and a psycho, flashing himself at a woman running past. I can see why he's had to resort to flashing for attention, he's looks like a real creep.
Gutsy of the woman to take his photo, glad it's out there for the world to see. Hopefully someone will recognise him and dob him in.