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Computer explodes burning teenager
iAfrica.com ^
| Fri, 17 Jan 2003
| Staff
Posted on 01/25/2004 7:35:23 AM PST by Glenn
The teenage daughter of a top foreign affairs department official was being treated in a Pretoria hospital for second degree burns suffered when her laptop computer's battery pack exploded.
Fifteen-year-old Nikita Sooklal is the youngest child of the department's deputy director-general responsible for the Middle East and Asia, Dr Anil Sooklal.
Sooklal told Sapa that his wife and daughter were at their Pretoria East home on Tuesday around 3.20pm while he was at the office.
"My daughter had switched on the laptop and was looking for a website about Macbeth, her school set-work, and my wife was upstairs.
"Suddenly there was a very loud bang and my daughter began screaming. My wife rushed downstairs and found Nikita's shirt was on fire.
"She immediately took her upstairs and stood her under a cold shower as her skin was already blistering. When my wife went back downstairs she found the sofa was alight and the flames were spreading and leaping as high as the ceiling," Sooklal said.
"It would appear the battery pack had exploded and disintegrated and set fire to the room."
The computer, a Dell 'Inspiron' issued to Dr Sooklal by the foreign affairs department some 18 months ago has been removed for forensic testing by a specially appointed police task team and the results are expected before the weekend.
Sapa
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: computers; dell; expiron; inspiron; logicbomb; lowqualitycrap
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To: pabianice
First, why was the teenager burning? How did the computer make her explode? And why was a burning teenager online?I thought AI parsers were banned on FR.
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posted on
01/25/2004 8:08:53 AM PST
by
Glenn
(MS:Where do you want to go today? OSX:Where do you want to go tomorrow?Linux:Are you coming or what?)
To: Glenn
I've been wearin' a seat belt at the computer since I heard all the stories about computers crashing... I don't know how to protect against this!
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
01/25/2004 8:10:26 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: pabianice
OK. First, why was the teenager burning? How did the computer make her explode? And why was a burning teenager online?
OMG! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!!! Thanx!!
To: Glenn
Computer explodes burning teenager The computer blew up a teenager who was on fire? How weird is that!?
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posted on
01/25/2004 8:22:26 AM PST
by
jimkress
(Save America from the tyranny of Republican/Democrat hegemony. Support the Constitution Party.)
To: pabianice
Computer explodes burning teenagerOK. First, why was the teenager burning? How did the computer make her explode? And why was a burning teenager online?
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LOL!! Yeah...well... (laughing too hard to think of a reply)
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posted on
01/25/2004 8:34:06 AM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: Poser
and you only have to move every 3 hours or so.increase your Barco time--Texas Catheter...
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posted on
01/25/2004 8:42:17 AM PST
by
Polycarp IV
(Start a revolution: get rid of your TVs)
To: yankeedame
Can they sue Al Gore for inventing the internet? They do the same thing to the gun makers....
To: pabianice
OK. First, why was the teenager burning? How did the computer make her explode? And why was a burning teenager online? LOL -- you beat me to it.
It's things like this that point out the value of our friend the comma.
To: Glenn
Hey, this happens all the time, especially to online Islamists. You can play too.
Here's what you do:
Go to any hollerin' Muslim website. Chat up some retard going on about the jews, Amerika biggest terrorist and so forth...
Type at him "You're the biggest freakin' moron in the world. No wonder you're gonna wind up as a pair of smoking leg stumps"
He'll type back something like "I kee U"
Tell the idiot that you're sitting in front of your computer right now. If he fires a couple rounds from his AK into his modem, he'll probably get you...
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:07:02 AM PST
by
telebob
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:19:11 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
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To: Glenn
If a teenager burns in the computer room while no one's watching, does that still mean that my wife is right about everything?
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:50:31 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ sounds good to me!)
To: Abram
"I have a very old monitor...and my computer makes some funny sounds occasionally."Yeah, mine too.
I wonder if it's about to self-destruct.
Does your sound like this?
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:58:32 AM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Gift Is To See The Trout.)
To: Johnny_Cipher
"If a teenager burns in the computer room while no one's watching, does that still mean that my wife is right about everything? "
Yup, lol.
To: GreatEconomy
if I can figure out how to market them.)Market them to college frats for a kegger theme party. Drink till you drop, non stop, not even to...
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posted on
01/25/2004 5:11:32 PM PST
by
Polycarp IV
(Start a revolution: get rid of your TVs)
Comment #37 Removed by Moderator
To: GreatEconomy
Post a link...this should be a real hoot.
I wish I could claim the idea was totally original, but I've a brother-in-law who described a similar "Depends" party at his frat.
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posted on
01/25/2004 5:24:54 PM PST
by
Polycarp IV
(Start a revolution: get rid of your TVs)
To: inkling
When computers attack!
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posted on
01/25/2004 5:34:57 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. - (LOTR))
To: sciencediet
From what I hear on this forum, Linux would have prevented that from happening.
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posted on
01/25/2004 5:38:03 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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