Exploding cellphone battery that killed Chinese man was actually a gun
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 10th 2009 2:43PM
posted February 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
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The firearm was not IN the cell phone. The firearm simply damaged the cellphone AS WELL AS killed the man. The man was an idiot carrying around a homemade firearm. He dropped it, it went off, killed him, and damaged his phone. You should read more carefully.
wow, ryan...really?
he didn't say once that the gun was in the phone, so maybe YOU should read more carefully!
@Ryan
Kang didn't say anything about the gun being the cell phone. "Imitation" is taken from the translation given here.
@ryan. you should put on your reading glasses. i never said the gun being inside the cellphone. so where did u get that idea? just because the japanese mixed a gun and a sword in their final fantasy games doesn't mean gun can be made into hybrids with other everyday(?) objects
tight
Dumbass!
i dont know why but the title of this article made me lol..
Me too, it was one of the funniest titles I've ever read for some reason.
Yes. Reading Chinese media is a daily fun for us Chinese netizens.
I'm so done with trying to follow this story. Truth is stranger than fiction.
I heard it was a military weather balloon that exploded in high altitude sending shrapnel into the mans cell phone and chest:)
I don't think the public is ready to hear that exploding cell phones exist.
My names is Bond... James *Bang*...
You there James? Hello? Hee-lloooo?
Well technically its the bullets that got him.
get it right people kill people. a gun left all alone can never kill anyone.
Um...it isn't guns that kill people...it's stupid people that kill people...
If guns killed people, then why do we have an army of men and women??? the guns should just go to war for us.
AND bad people (read stupid people with a vendetta or a "cause") will always have guns...whether they are illegal or not, (if they are planning on killing someone why would they care about some stupid gun law)
I call bullshit.
I don't believe that.
What I know is that we don't konw the brand of the cellphone.
must be one of those chinese brands, looks like a hybrid between iPhone, BlackBerry & HTC... the battery couldn't take such awesomeness and so just exploded ;)
ummm... wait, so - only 1 bullet was shot and it broke the Cellphone on his CHESTPOCKET and also injured his NECK?
The PR people should have mentioned two shots then! At what trajectory should the gun be for this kind of damage and even if it was at that impossible angle - how come the video doesn't show any muzzle flash from below? tsk tsk tsk... they need to learn how to make more solid stories...
The thing about reports like this, is you can't tell if it's for real, or if it's the Chinese government trying to save face and protect the image of the quality of their products through propaganda.
Remember, this is the country that executes people like the Chief Food Inspector when tainted milk gets out, and the country where disgraced businessmen "hang themselves" quite frequently.
To me, the story of a man with a homemade gun dropping it and killing himself is a little bit far-fetched, and the added detail about it being confused with a cell phone battery is even less probable.
If it's chinese news take it with TONS of salt.
In other news, the UK government bans mobile phones.
and the gun was actually a duck.
Neither cellphones or guns kill people, bullets do.
Damn...I thought the movie "Maximum Overdrive" was coming true. Someday, machines will try to kill us. I guess we'll just have to keep killing each other for the time being.