by: Christine Zafra

As you prepare your usual coffee in morning to bring it to your office (or someplace else), you smell the aroma of fresh coffee beans being brewed. As you pour the liquid inside your Stanley thermos, an unfamiliar sound startled you. BANG! Suddenly, your surroundings become black.

No, it’s not that you’re injured. It’s due to the charcoal that splattered from the thermos. The 2005 edition of Stanley thermos were withdrawn in the market because of some handle issues. If the vacuum cover of the handle is broken, chances are, it’ll explode and charcoal powder will burst in the air. A family in Arkansas sued the company (since most of their belongings had black powder in/on it) and the owners of Stanley thermos were more than willing to pay and assist them for the damages.

Photo taken from http://www.cpsc.gov