More eco bulbs exploding

The Press has more reports from Canterbury residents of exploding eco bulbs:

Epileptic Philip Haythornthwaite said he was “lucky to have avoided a fire” at his Shirley home after two of the bulbs suddenly overheated.

Haythornthwaite, 49, was suffering from a seizure at the time but came round to find bulbs in his living room and hallway had overheated and blackened “virtually simultaneously”.

The incident spurred him to send an email around the offices of charity Epilepsy New Zealand warning members not to use them.

“I am very, very concerned for people who have a disability and that we will have something coming into the house which is not reliable,” he said. “I think it could have been very dangerous and I think I am lucky I am still here and the house did not go up in smoke.”

Maybe the eco-bulbs are exploding on purpose? Perhaps they are on strike in sympathy for their incandescent colleagues who are facing extinction?