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More Exploding Cellphones In The News
adityapandey writes "It's happened again. Yahoo News has another story on exploding cellphones. Most of these mishaps are blamed on counterfeit batteries and chargers. Recently, Kyocera recalled about 40,000 cellphones for free replacement, because of batteries overheating and venting superheated gases. Yet, cellphone makers claim that such incidents are too rare to care about. Shouldn't cellphone companies be making people aware of the hazards of usage?"
Shouldn't cellphone companies be making people aware of the hazards of usage?
Of course not. How do you expect the Corporations and their henchmen (collectivley known as The Man(TM)) to turn a significant profit in The Free Market(TM) by scaring away customers in such a manner? What a horrible capitolist you must be, you anti-American pinko ingrate.
The third comment on the last link scares my brains out. Really. How far has it come that ordinary people write lines along these into ordinary webpages about batteries'n'stuff? What is wrong with the world and its people?
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Read for yourself:
1/10/2002
My father served during WW II in Burma India. As an Engineer in the Army building roads and landing strips , he told this story many times. A Jeep came in to Motor Pool where he was working that day with ignition problems and he proceeded to check the battery first . Simply hooking a tester to the battery caused an explosion.
The only thing that saved his eyes was the prescription glasses he was wearing , with fast action from some very well trained Medics his face survived too but , just because they were RIGHT THERE and knew what to do !!!
Master Sgt. . Willett M. Bruner went on to fight many battles while preparing the way for many more G.I.'s to join him and many others in securing our freedom during this war.
God rest the soul of Master Sgt. Willett M. Bruner and every other person who has made the ultimate sacrifice for our Freedom
Col. James L. Bruner
Emphasis mine. This is fascism. Today.