A national stand-up paddleboarding tournament held in Kanagawa has gone awry as the free T-shirts given out at the event have given 24 victims nasty burns and rashes, with one case being so extreme the individual had to be hospitalized.
T-shirts were being handed out by the tournaments organizers – Stand Up Paddle Union Japan – as a show of good will, only to unfortunately backfire, as apparently an unknown chemical residue remained on them.
One of the participants who wore a shirt shared his thoughts on the experience:
“thought the T-shirt felt a little slimy after I got out of the water. My back became covered in blisters and it hurt. I can’t sleep well either because it’s my back.”
News coverage of the incident:
It has been mentioned that at least 360 shirts had to be hastily returned, leading inevitably to questions over where exactly the clothing was sourced…
Idiot!!!! The news(video) did not talk anything about China.
Idiot!!!! its says “china quality” not “chinese product” or anything similar.. too liberal in using the word “idiot” huh?
This is why you always wash new clothes before wearing them, doesn’t matter where the damn things are manufactured.
Now they need to find the fucker who decided to save some yuans by violating quality requirements and execute him. I see no other just way.
Ero shirts supposed to dissolve in water gone wrong?
Most likely they didn’t wash them and there was some chemical used on them while in storage.
That’s probably the real reason. I’ve bought plenty souvenir T-shirts all over USA, Europe and the near east (my sister collects them) and plenty of them had a tag saying “chemically treated for storage, wash before wearing” and similar warnings.