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Police Say Man, Not Phone, Was Killer

AP
Posted: 2007-11-30 11:44:08
Filed Under: Weird News, World News
SEOUL, South Korea (Nov. 30) - A death originally thought to have been caused by an exploding cell phone is now being blamed on a co-worker, who confessed to making up the story after striking the victim with a drilling vehicle, South Korean police said Friday.

melted cell phone
Cheongju Heungdeok (South Korea) Police Station / Handout / Reuters

South Korean police released this photo of a melted cell phone Wednesday. It is believed to be the one found in the worker's pocket.

The quarry worker, only identified by his family name Seo, was found dead Wednesday with a melted phone battery in his shirt pocket. Police and a local doctor who examined his body said a malfunctioning battery may have killed the man.

However, after preliminary autopsy results suggested damage to Seo's internal organs was too great to be caused by a cell phone explosion, police questioned the colleague who first reported Seo's death, said Min Kang-gi, a detective in Chungju, some 85 miles south of Seoul.

The man, identified only by his surname Kwon, told police that he accidentally killed Seo while backing up a drilling vehicle, acknowledging that the exploding cell phone story was a farce, Min said.

Kwon told investigators after the accident that he moved his vehicle to throw off police, but did not say he set the mobile phone on fire, Min said.

Police said the phone was made by South Korea's LG Electronics Inc., the world's fifth-largest handset maker.

LG said it knew all along that its cell phone was not the killer.

"LG rigorously tests all the products not only for functionality and design, but safety as well," the company said in a statement.

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starspritestud 02:51:58 PM Mar 10 2008

So here's how I see it. L.G.'s a huge multi-billion dollar company, and recalls are more expensive than paying off families that make only a couple of dollars a day, and hey let's face it, China and Korea are not exemplary models of free-press reporting the news correctly or truthfully....

davidallentile 07:00:11 PM Jan 28 2008

my cellphone exployed in my house and motorla dont stand behind what thay sell fill free to call or email davidallentile@aol.com or 810 736 8437

Scrdof 04:00:00 PM Dec 03 2007

How can a cell phone kill a person?

tarocardman 08:01:00 AM Dec 02 2007

thefreedomeagle
Looks like a duck.

cofins4terorists 09:40:00 AM Dec 01 2007

Police Say Man, Not Phone, Was Killer
AP
Posted: 2007-11-30 11:44:08
Filed Under: Weird News, World News

Now do you understand alanders2

cofins4terorists 09:36:00 AM Dec 01 2007

READ THE DATE of THIS article.......Now read the DATE OF THE ORIGINAL posts you are commenting on........OF COURSE NO ONE READ IT!!! IT CAME OUT AFTER WE ALL POSTED! We were all posting on what was claimed in the ORIGINAL article!

alanders2 03:04:30 AM Dec 01 2007

No one read the story the phone did not kill him

cofins4terorists 09:34:00 AM Dec 01 2007

If you paid attention to the DATE of the post and the DATE of the NEW article, you'd realize the poster was commenting on the ORIGINAL article. Geez louise, can't you come up with something other than a put down of a poster from days ago on DIFFERENT article?

alanders2 02:59:30 AM Dec 01 2007

aqv27 did you read the story. a co-woker confessed to killing him.and it said internal injury not cooked insides and as a microwave technician, I assure you that no 9 volt battery will give off microwave energy

alanders2 03:04:30 AM Dec 01 2007

No one read the story the phone did not kill him

alanders2 02:59:30 AM Dec 01 2007

aqv27 did you read the story. a co-woker confessed to killing him.and it said internal injury not cooked insides and as a microwave technician, I assure you that no 9 volt battery will give off microwave energy

cofins4terorists 11:35:00 PM Nov 30 2007

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