Foxconn has been forced to shut down a factory in India after 250 workers were hospitalised after what appears to have been an overzealous bout of pesticide spraying. According to AFP the firm - famous for building the iPhone as well as a myriad of other gadgets - suspended operations at its Chennai plant yesterday after the …

COMMENTS

House rules Send corrections

This topic is closed for new posts.

Tuesday 27th July 2010 12:18 GMT LinkOfHyrule

Mobile Phone Components? Pesticides?

Mobile Phone Components? Pesticides?

Don't tell me Steve has started specifying pesticides for iPhone components! He's really lost it now! Is he worried about Judas phones attracting flies or something?

0 0
1. Tuesday 27th July 2010 12:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  steve job think he can kill the software bugs this way?
  
  so he is only human!
  
  0 0
2. Tuesday 27th July 2010 13:20 GMT Mr Brush
  
  Perhaps...
  
  They were trying to get rid of bugs in iOS4?
  
  2 0
3. Wednesday 28th July 2010 08:50 GMT Lance 3
  
  Flies
  
  Flies do flock to shit.
  
  0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 13:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

It's a RAID

Everyone out !!!

1 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 16:01 GMT robert cooke

Maybe they were just overworked?

nice to see it amuses so many people though. After some of the reports of Foxconn's explotation i think a few days in hospital would be some small relief for the poor blighters.

0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 16:55 GMT Tigra 07

Quick, light a match in the factory!

I think they meant "pests inside"

After all they're producing the devil's mobile telephone

0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 16:56 GMT Anonymous Coward

Maybe...

a 30 per cent increase in wages like the Chinese workers got will cure the problem.

0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 16:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

iFlies

Attracted to shit......

0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 20:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

Tasteless, but still just a Joke

Pesticide? Mass Indian casualties?

OK - who called the Union Carbide exterminators?

0 0
Tuesday 27th July 2010 21:11 GMT Captain Thyratron

bzzzzzz...

Let's not forget that India has a pretty mean mosquito problem. This is a country where DDT is getting less popular /because it isn't good enough at killing the mosquitos/.

0 0
1. Wednesday 28th July 2010 09:04 GMT Mips
  
  DDT?
  
  No wonder they are getting sick.
  
  OK now who was asleep during their management lecture? Increasing pay does not improve working conditions, it just allows you to make compensation elsewhere. The stress is just the same.
  
  0 0
2. Wednesday 28th July 2010 09:10 GMT Pascal Monett
  
  How about meshing the windows ?
  
  If pesticide spraying has become "routine", then there has to be something really bad going on. Even a "normal" dose of pesticide every day simply cannot be good for anybody.
  
  0 0