This is real:
This video went viral. The woman went to the hospital where they were unable to help her.
Gorilla Glue released a statement:
We are very sorry to hear about the unfortunate incident that Miss Brown experienced using our Spray Adhesive on her hair. We are glad to see in her recent video that Miss Brown has received medical treatment from her local medical facility and wish her the best. pic.twitter.com/SoCvwxdrGc
— Gorilla Glue (@GorillaGlue) February 8, 2021
A lawyer has weighed in on this:
Gorilla Glue, hair is NOT skin.
Your product failed to adequately warn, knowing hair glue in fact exists and many Black women use hair glue as hair adhesive & for this, your company is liable.
You should have given her a sponsorship deal.
Instead you will be held accountable https://t.co/DvLzfFVkJI
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) February 8, 2021
See, not is Gorilla Glue wrong but it’s also racist for not knowing thar black women use hair glue and specifically warning them.
That fact that Gorilla Glue is purchased in hardware stores and is not in any way indicated that it’s a hair product, and has warnings not to get it on skin, not withstanding.
This is a shakedown not a lawsuit.
I fear, however, in this day and age, she might win or at least get a huge settlement because of the racism angle.
Please God, bring on SMOD.
(PS, do not bring up the McDonald’s coffee spill case in the comments, virtually everything the pop culture knows about that case is wrong. McDonald’s admitted in court that they knew selling coffee at 190 degF was a hazard and after 700 previous settlements over burns, they still had no intention of selling coffee at the industry standard of 160 degF.)
So “hair is not skin.” ‘Spain this to me Lucy, how do you apply spray glue to your hair without getting it on your skin?
In the dim and distant past I knew punk rockers who used Elmer’s Glue to spike their hair, but that’s a casein based product that is actually beneficial to hair and washes off. The multiple levels of stupid starting with shopping at Ace instead of Sally Beauty and repeatedly failing to understand what this stuff is or read instructions rivals the lawsuit allegedly filed against Ortho by a woman who put contraceptive jelly on her toast instead of in her lady bits and got pregnant.
I’m thinking that if she sprayed Gorilla Glue on her lady parts as a contraceptive it could actually work. Although that video is pretty effective as well. OK, OK, I’m going back to my secret lair.
Ha. Gorilla Glue. The racist jokes just write themselves. No.. Not going there.
Seriously though, what a perfect example of the stupidity of this world. And she went on-line and got her 15 minutes of stupid fame.
Ah…
Sometimes I think the Rapture occurred somewhere in the 40’s and we’re just living on borrowed time.
Or… people are this dumb.
Or… both.
And I’ll say it first. People like this vote. Often often.
Hastur. Hastur. Hastur.
(nothing happens)
(mumbled swearing)
They should disbar that “lawyer” for being a racist ass — he thinks black women are too stupid to realize you can’t spray something on your hair without getting it on your skin.
SMOD? What does the Strawberry Milkshake of Death have to do with this?
What, this is not a Nissan Frontier (Xterra, Pathfinder) board? At least I was smart enough to have a stick shift so no worries for me!
So, when a company sells a product, it should have warnings for every possible use and misuse? The warning labels would be miles long.
There is a test of reasonableness that needs to be applied here. Yes, a lot of grocery stores will sell glues, but they are sold in the hardware or stationary section, NOT the beauty section. Anyone with half a functioning brain cell would realize that items purchased in that section are not meant for use on human hair.
Not the manufacturer’s problem.
There is a test of reasonableness that needs to be applied here.
IANAL, but I believe this is where “reasonable person” doctrine comes in. Basically, “Based on the nature of the product, how it’s marketed, and how (and where) it’s sold, what warnings would a reasonable person need vs. what warnings would a true ‘Here’s your sign’-level idiot need?”
The warning labels would be miles long.
And warning labels that long, or in such a small font to be unreadable in the size packaging they have available, carry their own liability. In effect, if the “wall of text” is too much, nobody can reasonably (there’s that word again) be expected to read it.
Sure, you could put a handy QR code the buyer could scan that would bring up the full list of uses and warnings, but same thing: Nobody reads EULAs for software, so how many are going to read it for glue? And again with the liability: If you depend on the QR code to save packaging, how are you covered against someone who can’t scan it (for whatever reason)?
Bottom line, this lady is not a reasonable person, by her actions both in using Gorilla Glue as hair glue despite reasonable warnings, and in suing the company when it didn’t go as planned. Even if the lawsuit wasn’t malicious and she really is just that stupid — and we’re talking Act of God stupidity here — the company’s liability is (or should be) limited by law for people who fail the “reasonable person” test.
My high school biology is admittedly quite a long time ago, but aren’t hair, skin, and nails all the same proteins, just in different quantity?
I for one am surprised to learn that most place places sell relatively cold coffee. Fresh perked would be an RCH shy of 212.
Then again, they also sell them in sippy cups with straws. So maybe they are implied safe for adolescents.
212 F is actually too hot, Capresso says optimum temperature for brewing drip coffee is 195-205 F and carafe temp should be around 180.
Since my Capresso machine makes really good coffee, I believe them
And this is how stupid warning labels are born. My favorite warning label was in the instructions for a paintball gun.
“Do not put the barrel of the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. We know this is a stupid warning but someone actually did this so we now have to include this warning.”
This case is a perfect summary of the problems in our society.