Matt
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You plug them in, and then it has a puck, and that is magnetized to the back of your flashlight, and it will charge the light.
And then when it's fully charged, a little green light comes on, and you know it's charged.
You can unhook it, and it's very convenient.
Cool.
Well, this gentleman, unfortunately โ
was working on the engine of his truck or whatever.
I don't know the specifics details, but just kind of a 50,000 foot overview was basically he stuck the light in his mouth and
To hold it, to hold the light, because he's working on his truck on his own, and something caused that light to basically arc in his mouth because of that light.
design feature on the charging.
I think maybe him putting his tongue against that diode on the back or whatever you want to call it, where it would normally charge, caused it to arc and then it exploded in his mouth and it killed him.
So the family is suing the parent company of Olight.
And again, I don't know where they're at in this.
I think...
I think it happened, I want to say, 22, maybe 23.
But needless to say, that was a point where I was like, you know, I had heard people complain about
There are lights being in their pocket and it accidentally get turned on because the push button on the back where it's also charging as well.
It'll get accidentally pushed.
And then like people's jeans were catching on fire or they were getting a blister from the heat from the from from just the light being on and stuff like that.
I heard people complaining about that.
I'm like, man, that's, that's, that's troublesome to hear.