Mrs. Billie Cannon a Knoxville, Tennessee homemaker was preparing to paint her back porch. In order to protect the floor, she very carefully placed around the edges a strip of tape the kind with adhesive on both sides. It was her plan to place a drop cloth over the floor and secure it with the tape.

Having succeeded in placing the tape around the entire surface, she went back inside the house to get a drop cloth. Returning to the porch sometime later, she found that all of her car…