Exploding cellphone battery that killed Chinese man was actually a gun
By Donald Melanson 
posted Feb 10th 2009 2:43PM
posted Feb 10th 2009 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
Read - Sohu.com
Read - Telegraph.co.uk
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.
ahhh, the limited edition Samsung Handgun. Convergence never felt so right.
Home-made pistol... great.
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!
Guns don't kill people, rappers do.
China can't even make a good quality firearm.
Censorship is a core concept of Chinese journalism.
No advocacy report in China.
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?