“Reach Out and Touch Someone…”, But this is Ridiculous

South Korea. In what has to be a contender for this year’s ‘Who’d A Thunk It Award’, a man has been killed by cellphone. Condolences to the family. But this is one I never would have believed. What’s even scarier I sometimes put my cellphone in my breast pocket too. Might have to revise that habit.

An exploding cell phone battery is suspected by police in the death of a South Korean worker Wednesday, though the phone’s manufacturer said it was highly unlikely.

The man, identified only by his family name Suh, was found dead at his workplace in a quarry Wednesday morning and his mobile phone battery was melted in his shirt pocket, a police official in Cheongwon told The Associated Press.

“We presume that the cell phone battery exploded,” the police official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.

Kim Hoon, a doctor who examined the body, agreed.

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