By gregladen on November 29, 2007. "His cell phone was found in his shirt pocket with its battery severely melted and his chest burned and fractured." Ouch. Details here. Tags Technology Log in to post comments More like this Assuming that the story isn't fake... if the battery had exploded, it wouldn't have left a molten lump. As already noted in Slashdot, it is more likely that something else exploded (the guy was working in a quarry!), and the battery melted as collateral damage.http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/155242 Log in to post comments Coworker confesses to covering up death with 'cell phone explosion' story. Log in to post comments
Assuming that the story isn't fake... if the battery had exploded, it wouldn't have left a molten lump. As already noted in Slashdot, it is more likely that something else exploded (the guy was working in a quarry!), and the battery melted as collateral damage.http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/155242 Log in to post comments
Assuming that the story isn't fake... if the battery had exploded, it wouldn't have left a molten lump.
As already noted in Slashdot, it is more likely that something else exploded (the guy was working in a quarry!), and the battery melted as collateral damage.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/155242
Coworker confesses to covering up death with 'cell phone explosion' story.