With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes

An anonymous reader writes "Tesla received a lot of attention over the Model S fires recently, but they're not the only car company having issues with spontaneous combustion. Ford has issued a recall on almost 140,000 Ford Escapes for potential engine fires. With little media attention on the recall, Musk might have a point about the unfair treatment Tesla gets in the news."

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Re:Well, when you're in the news...

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

In most Indian (dot, !feathers) traditions "arrow on the back" is considered a mark of great dishonor. Offhand I recall two stories.

One from the Tamil folk tradition. A mother was told her son died in the battlefield with an arrow on his back. Distraught mother ran to the battlefield, found the body, turned it over, and rejoiced when she found it was a chest wound not a back wound that killed her son.

The other is from my dim reaches of my memory. Not sure which version of Ramayana had this. When Lord Rama slayed the demon Ravana, the demon's wife Mandodari finds a back wound on the body of Ravana. She was shocked that her husband would turn away from the battlefield and doubly shocked Lord Rama would shoot at a fleeing enemy. Rama consoles Mandodari that her husband was a true hero who died bravely, the arrow from Lord Rama had gone all way through his body and the back wound was an exit wound.

Funny how different cultures interpret "arrow on the back".