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| Thread ID: 85079 | 2007-11-29 01:49:00 | There's A Killer In Your Pocket | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 616237 | 2007-11-29 01:49:00 | Strange reports from South Korea say a 33-year-old quarry worker was found dead by co-workers today, his shirt covered in evidence that implicated his cell phone . One witness who described the scene: "He was already bleeding from the nose . He had a mobile phone with a melted battery in his left shirt pocket . His shirt had soot on it in the shape of the phone . " Professor Kim Hoon at Chungbuk National University, who examined the body, said signs pointed to a battery explosion ( . siliconvalley . com/latestheadlines/ci_7580395" target="_blank">www . siliconvalley . com) . "He sustained an injury that is similar to a burn in the left chest and his ribs and spine were broken," Yonhap news agency quoted Kim as saying . "It is presumed that pressure caused by the explosion damaged his heart and lungs, leading to his death . " The phone was an LG unit, and while company officials declined direct comment, an anonymous spokesman claimed a fatal battery explosion was a virtual impossibility . The family of a 22-year-old welder in northwestern China may beg to differ . According to reports in July, a phone battery exploded in the man's pocket ( . breitbart . com/article . php?id=upiQNB-2007070320074461&show_article=1&catnum=-1" target="_blank">www . breitbart . com), breaking a rib and driving it into his heart, killing him . . . . does al qaeda know about this? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616238 | 2007-11-29 02:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz | user (1404) | ||
| 616239 | 2007-11-29 02:04:00 | www.stuff.co.nz OK>>>> Change the headline to: "Something Sleeping Next To You Can Kill." |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616240 | 2007-11-29 02:15:00 | I just avoided that Nokia battery thing: my phone has a BL-6C. :D However both my brother's and my father's Nokia phones use BL-5C. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 616241 | 2007-11-29 02:43:00 | Blame us chin-eeeeese for that :p | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 616242 | 2007-11-29 02:57:00 | These cases just go to prove how safe the batteries are. If they caused deaths at the same rate as cars, or cigarettes, cellphones would be illegal. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 616243 | 2007-11-29 03:02:00 | These cases just go to prove how safe the batteries are. If they caused deaths at the same rate as cars, or cigarettes, cellphones would be illegal. Totally different and that is like comparing apples with oranges. How many car engines just explode for no reason? |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 616244 | 2007-11-29 03:19:00 | batteryreplacement.nokia.com scroll to the bottom of the page and type in yoru battery ID number it'll tell you if you can get a free replacement.....I have three of those batteries and one is going to be replaced for free.......I'm pretty sure that one is from one of my older phones and the other two from phones bought more recently |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 616245 | 2007-11-29 03:23:00 | It's exactly comparable . We don't see shock-horror headlines about people being killed by cars (or cigarettes) in China or Korea . Such deaths are not considered to be "news" . A very small proportion of lithium batteries cause problems . I think the last "recall" I saw mentioned was of 50 million batteries, and that wasn't because of any fatalities . There are about a million or so cars in NZ . . . they kill many people every year . The numbers would be considerably greater in China and Korea (and possibly the rate, as well) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 616246 | 2007-11-29 05:26:00 | Totally different and that is like comparing apples with oranges. How many car engines just explode for no reason? not many though just this year i've had two tyres blow out on me both on my motorbike, both on the motorway that was two potentially fatal failures right there - and the first was cause by an illegal puncture repair on the tyre wall made by a previous owner |
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