Bull or Reality? - You decideWritten by Abdulrehman on July 28th, 2008
Everybody gets strange emails, telling stranger things. But recently one e-mail that has been out a lot has grabbed the attention of many, accompanied by press attention as well. According to the mail a few weeks ago, a young man was recharging his cell phone at home. Just then a call came in and he tried to answer, still connected to the outlet. After a few seconds something wrong happened in the charger, and a high surge of electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud. His parents rushed to the room and found him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers, and he died on his way to the hospital.
The e-mail came accompanied with the picture above. The obvious moral of the whole thing is that we should not use or attend a call when the cell phone is charging. However, factually this is false. The charger has a voltage of 5 Volts which is not even enough to make a person unconscious.
However, it is also true that a cell phone may explode or cause sparks and burn when over-charged or in some uncertain circumstances. It is best that we remain alert about these things and in this case, not use a cell phone while it is charging. There have been 4 reports of people injured or hurt due to cell phone explosions in the past few years.
Be aware of what you’re carrying in your pocket, it could be a dynamite. So what do you think could this cell phone explosion really kill a person?
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Everybody gets strange emails, telling stranger things. But recently one e-mail that has been out a lot has grabbed the attention of many, accompanied by press attention as well. According to the mail a few weeks ago, a young man was recharging his cell phone at home. Just then a call came in and he tried to answer, still connected to the outlet. After a few seconds something wrong happened in the charger, and a high surge of electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud. His parents rushed to the room and found him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers, and he died on his way to the hospital.
The e-mail came accompanied with the picture above. The obvious moral of the whole thing is that we should not use or attend a call when the cell phone is charging. However, factually this is false. The charger has a voltage of 5 Volts which is not even enough to make a person unconscious. However, it is also true that a cell phone may explode or cause sparks and burn when over-charged or in some uncertain circumstances. It is best that we remain alert about these things and in this case, not use a cell phone while it is charging. There have been 4 reports of people injured or hurt due to cell phone explosions in the past few years.
Be aware of what you’re carrying in your pocket, it could be a dynamite. So what do you think could this cell phone explosion really kill a person?
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There seems to be a certain amount of doubt about this story. Perhaps it did explode, which is scary, but maybe no one was killed. I remember when some iBooks were catching on fire because of battery malfunctions. Anyway I hope that no one was killed, or seriously injured.
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Yes there is some doubt about these types of stories but I’ve heard some of these in the news as well, press can’t give false information!
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