Comments on: Cell Kills Korean Man https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/cell-kills-korean-man/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:08:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jason https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/cell-kills-korean-man/#comment-550249 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:08:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/29/cell-kills-korean-man/#comment-550249 Coworker confesses to covering up death with ‘cell phone explosion’ story.

]]> By: Lassi Hippeläinen https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/cell-kills-korean-man/#comment-550248 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:34:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/29/cell-kills-korean-man/#comment-550248 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

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