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DevilAlumna
11-28-2007, 06:21 PM
Death by Cellphone:

http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4781&Itemid=2


In the first such case in Korea, a 33-year-old man was found dead on Wednesday, presumably killed by a cell phone battery explosion, police said. The cell phone was the product of a LG Electronics.
alteran
11-29-2007, 04:07 PM
Death by Cellphone:

http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4781&Itemid=2

Not so fast:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/cell.phone.ap/index.html

Looks like we may have to wait for the call phone tumors to take us out.
EarlJam
11-29-2007, 04:15 PM
Death by Cellphone:

http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4781&Itemid=2

Cell phone battery explosions have been well documented over the past decade. Yes, they are rare, but any knowledgable consumer should be aware of this.

While on the surface, this seems tragic; truth is, he had it coming.

-EarlJam
alteran
11-30-2007, 09:26 AM
Cell phone battery explosions have been well documented over the past decade. Yes, they are rare, but any knowledgable consumer should be aware of this.

While on the surface, this seems tragic; truth is, he had it coming.

-EarlJam

It appears this death is having a more and more mundane explanation all the time-- apparently, someone has confessed to accidentally killing the unfortunate man.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/30/cell.phone.ap/index.html

p.s. EJ-- we've ALL got it coming. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, "thank God for beer." :-)

Or, to quote him accurately, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
EarlJam
11-30-2007, 10:15 AM
It appears this death is having a more and more mundane explanation all the time-- apparently, someone has confessed to accidentally killing the unfortunate man.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/30/cell.phone.ap/index.html

p.s. EJ-- we've ALL got it coming. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, "thank God for beer." :-)

Or, to quote him accurately, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

I love Benny Frank. I sometimes wonder, with all of his accomplishments and ahead-of-time-thinking, if he was an alien.

I also love Beer.

I'd like to have a beer with Benny Frank. Perhaps in the afterlife. A Sam Adams would seem appropriate.

-EarlJam
alteran
11-30-2007, 10:27 AM
I love Benny Frank. I sometimes wonder, with all of his accomplishments and ahead-of-time-thinking, if he was an alien.

-EarlJam

Okay, I'm veering WAAAAAAY offtopic now.

This is going to be perhaps the weirdest thing I've ever posted (a high bar, I know), but when I was kid I used to pick up these "strange stories" comic books. One of them had a story called, "Ben Franklin, Alien."

In the story he was an interstellar alien grad student studying humans. The hook of the story was that Franklin's brilliance could be explained by being an alien who knew all this future technology.

He ultimately got an "F" for being FAR too conspicuous.