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Video: Martha Stewart Lounge Chairs Chopping Off Fingers!

Oh yes, it's time for more "Shame Shame Shame!" When we last left crusader Arnold Diaz at My Fox NY, he was unleashing his faux-populist outrage on the infamous "Drunken Negro Face Cookie" baker. And everyone was wondering, Arnie, how can you possibly top that? By moving up the food chain, of course, and revisiting one of his old targets: Martha Stewart, who he previously confronted about her line of glass patio tables and their funny tendency to shatter into a thousand jagged pieces.

This time, he's sending Stewart into a shame spiral over her company's lounge chairs, which have cost some people the tips of their fingers! People like little Jessica Berrera from New Jersey, who severed her finger last June after sitting down in the chair with her hand underneath. As Diaz demonstrates on a pencil, the bottom legs of the chair can act as a guillotine under the "right" circumstances. But two-time Hall of Shamer Stewart doesn't seem to care that her chairs are deforming kids whose parents buy her patio set at Kmart—when Diaz approaches her outside her building, he gets a face full of umbrella for his troubles.

Jessica now has no feeling in the fingertip, "can't play many of her favorite sports, and has emotional scars as well." Naturally, her family's hired an attorney, because a big cash settlement is just the thing for that vague emotional trauma. Then there's professional magician and (former) hand model Patrick Albanese from Iowa; he lost the "top half-inch" of a finger last June, and he's currently suing Stewart and Kmart. A third victim of the finger-chomping chairs is a grandmother from upstate New York who lost two fingertips last July! She was rushed to the hospital with her "fingertips in a baggie."

Kmart has since redesigned the chair, adding another bolt so that the legs don't snap forward and cause injury. In a statement, Stewart remained shameless, claiming that her company does "not oversee the mechanical design, engineering or manufacturing of the products." And in court this week, lawyers for Stewart's company and Kmart blamed the magician's in-laws for his lost fingertip, arguing that they should have done a better job maintaining their chair.

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  • NannyState

    Don't these victims know it's impolite to point?

  • Barbj8

    K-Mart should voluntarily recall the product and pay off the victims. If not, then sue them and Martha Stewart. Send her to prison!

  • jibbly
  • robingee

    Like Martha herself is personally responsible for a chair's flawed design. And ambushing her outside her home or office is a dumb way to go about addressing a problem.

  • hotstepper

    "her company does 'not oversee the mechanical design, engineering or manufacturing of the products.'"

    what exactly does her company do in order to make a product martha-tized? are there secret bitch features that we should know about? perhaps an eject button when the SEC is on the prowl?

  • Trilby16

    You know, those cookies look like they'd be real tasty. Wish I had one, or a few.

  • Clarice City

    A fourth victim, Arnold Diaz, suffered lacerations to the face when confronted with a Martha Stewart umbrella.

  • ides_of_march

    Martha has an iron-clad case. Nowhere on the box is the product marked digital-friendly.

  • ChampionOfTheSun

    Why not just admit that there was a design flaw, recall the chairs, and look like a decent human being, instead of denying the whole thing? Greedy bitch!

  • schadenfreudian mensch

    Money means more than appearing like a decent human being.

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