It's A Figure Of Speech: Suck, Don't Blow!

From the Chicago Crime section of the Sun-Times, someone finds a vacuum cleaner that works & then gets huffy about it. "Crime?" There's no pleasing some people, is there?

A north suburban woman claims a "defective" vacuum cleaner sucked her hair out of her scalp when it broke during use -- and she is now suing the Ohio-based vacuum-maker for more than $200,000.

Terri Washburn Gattone, of north suburban Libertyville, filed the suit against the Kirby Co. on Friday in Cook County Circuit Court.

Washburn Gattone claims in the suit that an attachment hose connector on the vacuum cleaner system she bought broke when she was using it in her home last August.

The machine then sucked her hair into the vacuum, ripping her hair out of her scalp and causing "serious personal injuries," the suit claims.

The lawsuit claims that the vacuum cleaner was "defective and unreasonably dangerous," and that Kirby sold the machine without "adequate testing" or warnings to customers about potential injuries.

Representatives from the Kirby Co. were not immediately available for comment.

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