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Jury Awards $2.5 Million Chinese Drywall Verdict
NBC Miami ^ | Fri, Jun 18, 2010 | WILLARD SHEPARD and BRIAN HAMACHER

Posted on 06/18/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: blam

Gilroy indeed does grow a lot of garlic.

However, they have to have their seed garlic grown in Nevada - in “Empire,” which is north of Reno on the edge of the Black Rock Desert. There’s some fungus in the soil around GIlroy which makes it difficult to grow garlic from seed to small bulb plants. So they do it in Nevada.

HIGHLY profitable.


21 posted on 06/19/2010 2:19:23 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“We don’t use drywall here in the South. We use sheetrock.

Would that be anything like gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper, then kiln dried. That’s what we use here.”

The kiln dried gypsum between paper is what is most commonly used here in Oz. Commonly known as Gyprock (a brand name that’s passed into the local vernacular).


22 posted on 06/19/2010 2:45:33 AM PDT by AussieJoe
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To: nickcarraway; JACKRUSSELL; GSP.FAN; FreeAtlanta; PGalt; grey_whiskers; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; ...

“defective Chinese drywall case”

How about mixing it with defective Chinese toothpaste and marketing it as a new, low-cost pastry?

More Chinese crap alert.


23 posted on 06/19/2010 6:25:54 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Keep me posted on these developments, please.

A close friend of mine is an electrician who’s being sued along with his contractor for working on 2 houses with this drywall in St.Tammany Parish.

He’s worried sick.


24 posted on 06/19/2010 6:55:50 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: NVDave
I had a friend who grew grape roots in Washington state for use in California...something similar to your garlic thing, I think. A more desireable grape was grafted on those roots...
25 posted on 06/19/2010 8:04:18 AM PDT by blam
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To: terycarl
They claimed Banner Supply knew about the problem and had even made an agreement to send a shipment of 100,000 pounds of the drywall back to the Chinese manufacturer a year before they bought their home.

If a company knowingly puts noxious materials throughout your home it must be made plain that it will be very painful for the company involved.

26 posted on 06/19/2010 11:39:06 AM PDT by RJL
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