Man Killed by Exploding Cell Phone

[Rath709]

Not to demean this poor bastards' death, but this sounds like the premise of a new Doctor Who adventure.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Not to demean this poor bastards' death, but this sounds like the premise of a new Doctor Who adventure.

I think Terror of The Autons or even Rise of the Cybermen already covered most of the nasty things you can do with phones.

 

[Bowstring]

Not to demean this poor bastards' death, but this sounds like the premise of a new Doctor Who adventure.

I think Terror of The Autons or even Rise of the Cybermen already covered most of the nasty things you can do with phones.

Maybe even The Sound of Drums.

Telepathically brainwashing people through their mobile phones ftw.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Wow, I've had batteries explode in CD players and the like, but I never thought of a phone battery doing the same thing. Scary stuff.

Something similar happened a year or so back, if I recall properly. ...You might not want to carry the CD player in your pocket, or anything.

I'll never keep my mobile in my pocket ever again for fear of crotch elimination.

But seriously that's just bad luck. Hopefully the Chinese won't keep it under TOTAL wraps.. probably because it was a Chinese manufacturer that produced the batteries.

 

[BLOONINJA 503]

heres an update on the story

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693158/Exploding-Phone-Actually-A-Gun.html

 

[scotth266]

Well, at least we know that those scenes from spy movies are possible.
Yeah, this guy probably just had some bad luck.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

heres an update on the story

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693158/Exploding-Phone-Actually-A-Gun.html

Many thanks for that BLOONINJA, that had got past my newsnet.

I'm still a little puzzled why he'd be carrying a gun in his shirt pocket though? Ah well, that means mobiles are free to use again, I guess.

 

[nova18]

heres an update on the story

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693158/Exploding-Phone-Actually-A-Gun.html

Kinda ruins the topic but...
This man managed to drop his gun and accidentally shoot himself and his phone.
Thats still pretty unlucky.
But I actually have less sympathy for him now.

 

[BLOONINJA 503]

The guy lived in a rough neighborhood

I can relate, hell I just turn 17 on the 13th and I've seen at least 7 different cases like this pop up all over my hometown during my childhood...some were homies