Thai man claims he lost the ends of two fingers when his mobile phone exploded

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Consumer protection officials and a team from the government watchdog Damrongtham will today meet with a 61 year old Phayao man who said he was seriously injured when his phone exploded in his hand.

 

Jan Jiworn from Mae Jai district lost the ends of two fingers in the explosion.

 

Damrongtham. who has members of the Office of the Consumer Protection Board in its ranks, said yesterday that they will be taking to Jan today to find out what happened and advise him of his legal rights and what help is available to him.

 

Pictures of Jan bandaged up and a damaged phone were shown in the Thai Rath report.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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Bull(deleted)

looks  like  it  got a  couple of teef as  well

1 hour ago, smedly said:

Bull(deleted)

dust? Far fetched

the risk when buying a cheap phone that you have no idea where or who made it or its battery.

5 minutes ago, AsiaHand said:

the risk when buying a cheap phone that you have no idea where or who made it or its battery.

Yes. First intelligent comment 

Looking at his home, I'm more inclined to think it exploded due to bad electrics in the house.

Jeez folks - you all have it wrong - just a simple case of not wearing his lucky amulet. Get with the program here. 

30 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Looking at his home, I'm more inclined to think it exploded due to bad electrics in the house.

Do you dream a lot? Do you have a tendency to make wild unfounded presumptions? Or maybe you are Psychic. 

Lucky for him that the phone wasn't in his pocket when it exploded.

 

At least it was only the tips of his fingers that he lost....... 

Maybe it was a call from the yakuza looking for donations.

Worked in an office in BKK once, one of the offices where everybody had their own cubicle type thing. One afternoon there was, as Ronnie Barker would say ' a buckin fang'  One of the local guys had made his own charger from bits and pieces and lucky for him he had gone for a P when his phone shattered. The dividing panels had bits of phone stuck into them and they would probably have been stuck in him if nature hadn't called.

Wonder if somehow he plugged into mains or a charger fault and got 220v direct to his hand .

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Looking at his home, I'm more inclined to think it exploded due to bad electrics in the house.

My thoughts also, having seen items melt whilst plugged in... lol... circuit breakers my butt.... and .... I’ve also seen wires stripped back and stuffed straight into sockets, on numerous occasions for various electrical devices (in the case of a phone, I would image that not using an adaptor would super heat the phone..... bang).

 

that said, if the phone manufacturer were allowed to investigate, I would be interested to know their findings. (And brand!)

The problem could be an aftermarket charger, there are some in the markets here that don't know when the battery is full, they just keep charging, and if left the battery will eventually explode.

2 hours ago, over2you said:

Do you dream a lot? Do you have a tendency to make wild unfounded presumptions? Or maybe you are Psychic. 

Not really, I'd take reasonable technology of that electricians any day 

he won't get much help from the consumer protection department. I have come across them before and they are less than useless

4 hours ago, lvr181 said:

Jeez folks - you all have it wrong - just a simple case of not wearing his lucky amulet. Get with here. 

Darn; I was thinking 'Bad Karma' at play. 

name and model would help this not happening again

4 hours ago, dabhand said:

Lucky for him that the phone wasn't in his pocket when it exploded.

 

At least it was only the tips of his fingers that he lost....... 

Phones do not explode, they may however go on fire because of the battery which is why I called this story bull"s

 

When I went to MBK to replace batteries on my IPad and I phone, different quality levels were offered.  

 

He was lucky he wasn't using his Dictaphone.

7 hours ago, smedly said:

I called this story bull"s

Go on, say it................ it is bulls hit  

 

Could be he lost his fingers chopping the chicken's head off? Got to save face, blame it on the cell/mobile phone?

 

(Yes, some know these phones as 'mobile' others know them as a 'cell' phone - for the unitinitiated). 

11 hours ago, dabhand said:

Lucky for him that the phone wasn't in his pocket when it exploded.

 

At least it was only the tips of his fingers that he lost....... 

What could have been.

Looking at the big photo, I would say they both seem to need some kinda of compensation.

 

On 8.5.2018 at 4:02 PM, AsiaHand said:

the risk when buying a cheap phone that you have no idea where or who made it or its battery.

 

On 8.5.2018 at 4:07 PM, over2you said:

Yes. First intelligent comment 

Intelligent? I not believe!!! Just search on Google for "iphone battery explode -bites" or "samsung battery explode" and you will find out that a lot of expensive big name branded mobile phones explode too.

 

So it is in real a stupid comment!!!