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What's wrong with our legal system? The penalties mentioned are really steep. Up to 10 years in prison and/or a $180K fine for bringing a galaxy note 7 onto a p

What's wrong with our legal system? The penalties mentioned are really steep. Up to 10 years in prison and/or a $180K fine for bringing a galaxy note 7 onto a plane.

colejohnson66 10y ago
Imagine one blows up in the air and forces the plane to be grounded. Someone has to pay for that emergency landing. $180k does seem excessive though.
- acranox 10y ago
  Maybe Samsung should pay that bill?
  - scottmf 10y ago
    Why should they? If you take a Note 7 onto a plane that's on you. Your idea would shift the disincentive not to fly with a Note 7 away from the passenger.
    - seanp2k2 10y ago
      It's reasonable to expect your phone to not act like thermite randomly. Until they have 100% of sold devices accounts for, they should be accountable for producing something which malfunctions so spectacularly with potentially deadly consequences. I'm sure there are many people who still don't know about the recall (or who don't understand the actual risks and thus don't care). I'm sure that their notification system to urge owners to bring the device in for recall is not without bugs and didn't reach every last owner. I'm sure there are plenty of GN7s sitting in boxes. It's not really the fault of a person to know that what they though was a normal phone is now considered contraband because the manufacturer goofed epically. Consider also all of the tech-illiterate who may have received one as a gift or whatever, and they don't know / care what model it is. It's not really fair IMO to fine them. I guess this is why they're checking all phones now. I'm not sure of the exact mechanisms employed by them, but they likely need to work with every telco on which their phone can connect and go through all active IMEIs and ESNs to identify any still-active GN7s, likely at great expense to Samsung. They should also probably then blacklist those so the devices become unable to connect to the carrier, so any people still using them will actually bring them in for disposal.
      - simplexion 10y ago
        This is still a massive over-reaction for a device with a manufacturing defect that affects less than 0.01 percent.

What's wrong with our legal system? The penalties mentioned are really steep. Up to 10 years in prison and/or a $180K fine for bringing a galaxy note 7 onto a plane.

colejohnson66 10y ago

Imagine one blows up in the air and forces the plane to be grounded. Someone has to pay for that emergency landing. $180k does seem excessive though.

acranox 10y ago
Maybe Samsung should pay that bill?
- scottmf 10y ago
  Why should they? If you take a Note 7 onto a plane that's on you. Your idea would shift the disincentive not to fly with a Note 7 away from the passenger.
  - seanp2k2 10y ago
    It's reasonable to expect your phone to not act like thermite randomly. Until they have 100% of sold devices accounts for, they should be accountable for producing something which malfunctions so spectacularly with potentially deadly consequences. I'm sure there are many people who still don't know about the recall (or who don't understand the actual risks and thus don't care). I'm sure that their notification system to urge owners to bring the device in for recall is not without bugs and didn't reach every last owner. I'm sure there are plenty of GN7s sitting in boxes. It's not really the fault of a person to know that what they though was a normal phone is now considered contraband because the manufacturer goofed epically. Consider also all of the tech-illiterate who may have received one as a gift or whatever, and they don't know / care what model it is. It's not really fair IMO to fine them. I guess this is why they're checking all phones now. I'm not sure of the exact mechanisms employed by them, but they likely need to work with every telco on which their phone can connect and go through all active IMEIs and ESNs to identify any still-active GN7s, likely at great expense to Samsung. They should also probably then blacklist those so the devices become unable to connect to the carrier, so any people still using them will actually bring them in for disposal.
    - simplexion 10y ago
      This is still a massive over-reaction for a device with a manufacturing defect that affects less than 0.01 percent.