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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011In addition to that judge losing his job, it's looking like a bad, or at least weird, week for cell phones. As of today cell phone subscriptions worldwide have reached 3.3 billion people, 50% of Earth's population. Also today, a South Korean doctor revealed that a DoA 33-year-old quarry worker may have been killed by his cell phone. An apparent explosion of the phone burned his chest, fractured his ribs and caused internal bleeding. Police are still investigating.
We love finding out cell phones can kill us, not with cancer but by exploding, on the same day we find out half the planet is now carrying them around.
Edit: Good news! Well, for most of us, not that quarry worker. Turns out he was accidentally killed by a co-worker with industrial machinery--the "exploding cell phone" bit was a cover-up.
via newswire
Comments
although i'm sure half the world population rides in automobiles, and there are A LOT of accidents involving those, much more so than cell phone explosions. so shouldn't you be scared of cars AND cell phones? what about people who use cell phones in cars? hell, that cell phone could explode, the car could careen, and all hell will break loose!
also, the guy probably didn't die from a cell phone explosion:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_hi_te/skorea_mobile_phone_explosion
It's amazing that whenever someone allegedly dies of a cell phone explosion, they're always a worker in a quarry, steel plant, or other inherently dangerous location. The plant/quarry owners are shameless.
It was found that this man in Korea was hit by an truck and now police have solid evidance and by that impact,the phone exploded.
This turned out to be a hoax.
oh, so it turns out, we shouldn't be worried about exploding cell phones. we should be worried about co-workers running us over using heavy machinery.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_hi_te/skorea_mobile_phone_explosion