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Reports were making their way around the Internets yesterday that a mobile phone explosion had killed a South Korean man. Police assumed this was the case, since they had found his mobile phone battery melted in his shirt pocket. However, doctors reveal that this is not the case. The real cause of death: “accidental vehicular homicide.”

This doesn’t mean the phone didn’t explode and kill the man. In fact, it’s likely the case. The missing link, though, is that the explosion was presumably caused by a co-worker backing a construction vehicle over the man.

“The co-worker confessed to us last [Thursday] night that he had actually hit him by accident and lied about the mobile phone exploding.”

So a faulty battery is ruled out in the cause of death. However, the investigation is ongoing. It is unclear whether the intense pressure of the truck backing over the man caused the explosion, or whether that was a cover-up. Police wonder if the phone was “deliberately set alight.”

Yes, the phone explosion killed the man. But it’s not the manufacturer’s fault. That has to put LG at least a little at rest.

[The Register]

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