Far be it from us to
revel misfortunes of others, but is it really heartless of us to have a chuckle at the thought of a little kid getting
nailed in the chest by phone charger shrapnel? Yeah, we suppose it is, but at least we're on the up about it, which is
more than we can say about
Sony Ericsson and their
CST-20 charger. Turns out a UK man recently had a run-in with a rogue CST-20 unit, which after being plugged in for 45
seconds blew up in his kitchen. The room was sprayed with shrapnel, and the man's three year-old son was nailed in the
chest with the lid of the unit. Along with tripping the circuit breaker and filling the house with fumes, the explosion
managed to get a vulgar yell out of the man's wife upstairs, which really seems to make it all worthwhile. The man
doesn't think so, and is of course looking into the matter legally. Sony Ericsson says the CST-20 is built by a
different manufacturer than the one responsible for the infamous CST-13 of 2003.
[Via
textually.org]
