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News broke today of a fatal incident occurring Saturday involving a computer store employee in Guangzhou and a cell phone. The man charged the battery to his Nokia
mobile phone, put his newly-charged phone into the breast pocket of his shirt and according to a coworker, there was a loud bang, and the guy was on the floor dead in a pool of blood.A CNET report Tuesday claimed the exploding phone had severed the man’s carotid artery and he bled to death, but details from the Chinese media on the incident are, not surprisingly, scant. According to a Times Online piece, local authorities reported that this is the ninth such incident of an exploding cell phone in China since 2002, which begs the question, “can this happen in the U.S.?” Well, since nobody really knows how a cell phone can spontaneously combust, technically the answer is yes. However, as with most items in China, the batteries to mobile phones there can be pirated and thus do not undergo the same testing a properly manufactured battery would. Either way, what a tragedy. And I’ll think of this guy always when someone’s phone rings and they say, “I’m blowin’ up.” It really could happen.
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