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Exploding Cell Phone Battery Kills
LingNoi writes "A man in Korea was found dead at his workplace Wednesday morning and his mobile phone battery was melted in his shirt pocket. No one knows for sure yet but a doctor who examined the body said, "He sustained an injury that is similar to a burn in the left chest and his ribs and spine were broken" We have heard of other dangerous battery products here on Slashdot." Update: 11/30 17:34 GMT by Z : Turns out the melted battery was the least of his worries; he was actually hit by a truck.
It probably was a lithium battery.
The point isn't whether people shouldn't puncture their cellphones, but that the cellphone should have some kind of protection for when these accidents happen. Sigh, I remember the old times when the worst thing that happened was that you got an acid burn in your skin...