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Exploding Cell Phones a Growing Problem
Yahoo! News ^ | ELIZABETH WOLFE, Associated Press

Posted on 11/23/2004 11:57:40 AM PST by Tarpaulin

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1 posted on 11/23/2004 11:57:41 AM PST by Tarpaulin
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To: Tarpaulin

Scary!


2 posted on 11/23/2004 11:58:28 AM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tarpaulin

This could cause accidents in SUVs.


3 posted on 11/23/2004 12:00:07 PM PST by sidewalk
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To: Tarpaulin

Exploding cellphones...business is booming.


4 posted on 11/23/2004 12:00:13 PM PST by Prime Choice (I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
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To: sidewalk

Hang up and bleed.


5 posted on 11/23/2004 12:00:38 PM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Tarpaulin

That's it! Ban them!


6 posted on 11/23/2004 12:00:53 PM PST by MisterRepublican ("I must go. I must be elusive.")
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To: Tarpaulin

BTTT


7 posted on 11/23/2004 12:01:27 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Tarpaulin

This goes back to the days of Indians setting their blankets on fire sending smoke signals.


9 posted on 11/23/2004 12:02:27 PM PST by N. Theknow (DU, Michael Moore, Hollywood, etc. are all dogcrap on the Shoe Of Life)
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To: Prime Choice; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; buffyt
His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned...

How many times are people supposed to be stuned today?

10 posted on 11/23/2004 12:03:03 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Tarpaulin

Let me do the math -
83 incidents and 170,000,000 cell phones in use...
Thamt is a rate of 0.00005%.
How many other products are that safe?


11 posted on 11/23/2004 12:03:04 PM PST by RebelBanker (To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
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To: Tarpaulin
Michael Sathre, who is expected to fully recover from his wounds, was picking his fully charged Verizon LG cell phone off the floor when it exploded by his side. The family chose not to sue and has instead allowed the companies involved and a consumer group to come to their house to study the damage, in the hopes it won't happen to someone else.

WHAT!? WTF!? That's Unamerican!

Good for them. Excellent.

12 posted on 11/23/2004 12:03:29 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (--Scots Gaelic: 'War or Peace'--)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
How many times are people supposed to be stuned today?

Must be all those beebers. They stune me every time.

13 posted on 11/23/2004 12:04:46 PM PST by Prime Choice (I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
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To: bullseye876

I set my beeber to stune only.


14 posted on 11/23/2004 12:05:17 PM PST by Tarpaulin (Look it up.)
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To: Tarpaulin
Can you hear me NOW?
15 posted on 11/23/2004 12:05:39 PM PST by bikepacker67 ("This is the best election night in history." -- DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe 11/2/04 8pm)
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To: Tarpaulin
"If you're cramming more and more power in a small space, what you're making is a small bomb," said Carl Hilliard, president of the California-based Wireless Consumers Alliance, which has been tracking incidents of cell phone fires and explosions.

Uh, no, you are making a small cell phone...

16 posted on 11/23/2004 12:06:12 PM PST by ikka
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To: RebelBanker
"How many other products are that safe?"

String? Cardboard?

17 posted on 11/23/2004 12:07:53 PM PST by Gingersnap
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To: RebelBanker
That is a rate of 0.00005%.

Let's a make a lottery out of it. Cell phone explodes: you win $1,000,000.00.

18 posted on 11/23/2004 12:08:22 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Tarpaulin

I don't know about exploding batteries, but I switched phones because the battery in my old one got pretty darned hot when you were talking on the phone. It was uncomfortable.

My new one just gets slightly warm.


19 posted on 11/23/2004 12:08:41 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: sidewalk

It will. Some Soccer mom in an SUV talking on her cell phone will have a phone blow-out at 80mph and run over several Focus, a Toyota, and an Accord before rolling to a stop in the median.


20 posted on 11/23/2004 12:09:18 PM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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