Posted on 08/03/2025 7:32:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Police are investigating the death of a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who died on a bus with 26 iPhones glued to her skin.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, died of cardiac arrest on July 29, according to multiple outlets, including the Daily Mail.
Cops suspect the young woman was likely smuggling the iPhones, the Mirror reported.
Passengers on the bus told police the woman, who was traveling solo, had become ill during the trip from Foz do Iguaçu to São Paulo, according to the reports.
She complained she was having trouble breathing.
Emergency responders tried to revive the woman for 45 minutes, and later said she suffered a seizure.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to reports.
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Hmmmm, it’s been a very, very long time - just curious, which scene?
Even the signal from a single device can cause health problems,....
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Wouldn’t all the phones be off? In fact, wouldn’t all the batteries by uncharged?
She causes traffic jams wherever she goes.
Is there a huge black market for iphones in Brazil?
Funny..
Men who carry their smartphones in their pants pocket have much higher rates of testicular cancer. Brain tumors regularly appear on the side of the head where hours-a-day users hold their phone. OSHA and the FCC are conducting ongoing research into radiation dangers posed to linemen, arborists, construction workers and anyone else who works in the vicinity of cell towers. The market for EMF protective gear is growing by leaps and bounds.
Were they turned on, or off?
If she was smuggling the phones, no way they’d be turned on and transmitting. If it - her health problem - was due to “the phones” it was most likely due NOT to the phones but to the glue uses to stick them to her body.
It is even possible that she had some major health issue having nothing to do with the phones.
“My wife has started using blue tooth ear buds to use her cell phone”
Bluetooth is RF.
I agree that smuggling was probably the motivation, but she may have known she had a heart condition and thought the phones would somehow protect her. I know it’s goofy, but many people are, well, goofy.
I’m guessing the phones were shut down and inactive, and this was a reaction to absorbing chemicals in the glue.
Possibly. A young woman with 26 cellphones glued to her body is obviously a nut, so who knows what else she’d done to harm herself.
Yeah, that non-ionizing radiation will get you every time!
Brain tumors regularly appear on the side of the head where hours-a-day users hold their phone.
Probably 50% of the time. It's crazy!
Soo, are the places in Brazil where iPhones are illegal? If not, how/why was she “smuggling” them?
Pokémon go player…
Or that was her fashion
But is way, way weaker than phone RF.
Here’s what the article left out .
“The woman said “hey Siri, play a factual and intellectually stimulating speech by Joe Biden. The phones then overheated as the CPUs had an impossible task.”
There is a big black market for iPhones and most electronics in Brazil due to their tariffs. There are plenty of articles on the internet of flight attendants and others who were arrested for smuggling.
Foz do Iguaçu is on the border of Brazil and touches Paraguay and Argentina. She was likely smuggling the phones. As for her death, body (likely) reacted adversely to the glue holding the phones to her body.
Who says the phones were on?
According to preliminary information, the woman, who was alone, was travelling from Foz do Iguaçu to São Paulo....
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A few things to add to this... I’ve been to Foz do Iguaçu and the waterfalls just a few miles south of there are truly outstanding. One would wonder about ‘smuggling’ but Foz do Iguaçu is right next door (and across the Parana River near the Itaipu Dam) from Ciudad del Este in Paraguay. There essentially is no border check between the two countries. Ciudad del Este is a major hub in South America for smuggling consumer goods... it is located right where Brazil, Argentina and Brazil come together.
Apparently she was in Guarapuava, Brazil when she died. It’s about an 18 hour bus ride from Foz do Iguaçu to Sao Paulo and she would have been about 1/3 of the way along.
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