Exploding cellphone battery that killed Chinese man was actually a gun

by Donald Melanson posted Feb 10th 2009 at 2:43PM

While some of the details still seem to be up in the air at the moment, it looks like that exploding cellphone battery that killed a man shopping at a Lenovo store in mainland China a couple of weeks back was actually not a cellphone battery at all, but rather an actual firearm of some sort. According to some roughly translated reports from Sohu.com, the "imitation firearm with bullets" suddenly fell to the ground at one point, which caused the bullets to fire up into the man's chest and neck arteries, leading to massive blood loss. The Telegraph newspaper further adds that the gun, which they describe as a home-made pistol, also damaged the man's cellphone when it went off, leading to the initial suspicion that the battery may be to blame. So there you have it, folks, while cellphones may or may not kill people, guns (makeshift or otherwise) certainly do.

Read - Sohu.com
Read - Telegraph.co.uk

Filed under: Misc

Tags: exploding, exploding battery, exploding cellphone, ExplodingBattery, ExplodingCellphone, firearm, gun

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Peter F @ Feb 10th 2009 2:49PM

Guess I can put my cell phone under my pillow again. But that loaded homemade gun with the safety off will have to go now.

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Ari @ Feb 10th 2009 2:57PM

ahhh, the limited edition Samsung Handgun. Convergence never felt so right.

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Stevey 1337 @ Feb 10th 2009 4:16PM

Home-made pistol... great.

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Louis @ Feb 10th 2009 4:40PM

As soon as I read the original story, I thought, "Bullshit. There's more to this." Turns out there was.

...So why was this man in a Lenovo store with a home-made gun? Something tells me he wasn't planning to pay for that ThinkPad!

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ILoveApple @ Feb 10th 2009 4:51PM

Guns don't kill people, rappers do.

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larry Friedman @ Feb 10th 2009 6:51PM

China can't even make a good quality firearm.

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Benzodiazepine @ Feb 11th 2009 2:45AM

Censorship is a core concept of Chinese journalism.
No advocacy report in China.

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Randy G @ Feb 11th 2009 4:50PM

So is it an "imitation firearm", or an "actual firearm"?. The story itself cannot make up its mind on this crucial "fact". Or was this a KIRF gun?

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