Part of one line in the original article caught my eye, and no NY Post reporter (I'm hearing Jimmy Breslin talking in my head) would ever report "Trapped alone in the lift". Lift? In New Yawk? (Don't start - I was born and raised in the Rotten Apple.) Something is fishy from the get.
Of course, New Yorkers know what the British say when they say "the life", NYC isn't the sticks. But no Post reporter would have used the phrase and no copy editor would have let it go by uncorrected.
Leaves me thinking that there's more to this than met the page.
Besides, with the number of Note 9s sold, one is probably a very tiny percentage. One thousandth of a percent of a product being bad isn't mathematically significant, and it can't be predicted. And I'd like to see the charge cycle of that battery. If she has the charger plugged in any time she's near an outlet, and uses the phone until it's about to shut off, every cycle, maybe Samsung should put a little notice in the instructions on how to properly treat the battery. (I don't know - no one has figured out the failure mode that leads to fires.)
But I haven't seen any further reports, so I'm just waiting to see if any surface. (And a New York real estate agent? I wonder. [I used to hold a NY real estate agent's license, so I know how accurate most of them are.])