LG = "Life's Good" - unless you were this customer:
[SIZE="4"]Exploding mobile kills man: police[/SIZE]
SMH wrote:
An exploding mobile phone battery is suspected to have killed a South Korean worker, although the phone's manufacturer said this was highly unlikely.
The man, identified only by his family name Suh, was found dead at his workplace on Wednesday morning. His mobile phone battery was melted in his shirt pocket, a police official in Cheongwon said.
The Korea Times reported the man worked with an excavator at a stone quarry.
"We presume that the cell phone battery exploded," the police official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.
Kim Hoon, a doctor who examined the body, agreed.
"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."
Kim was not available for further comment.
Police said the phone was made by South Korea's LG Electronics, the world's fifth-biggest handset maker.
An LG official confirmed its product was involved in the accident but said the company would not comment on the incident because the cause was not confirmed.
However, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to company policy, said such a fatal explosion would be virtually impossible . . . more
And in New Zealand, a re-charging Nokia phone exploded, startling a kiwi man out of his sheep - I mean, sleep.
SMH wrote:
. . . Meanwhile, a New Zealand man said the battery in his Nokia mobile phone exploded while he was recharging it last night, tvnz.co.nz reported.
A loud bang woke Norman Sievewright, from Auckland, in the middle of the night, the website said. He found that his Nokia mobile phone, which had been charging next to his bed, had exploded . . . more
See also: Laptop Explodes At Conference
After years of abuse, could the repressed keitai finally be rising up against their human overlords?
