Posted on 01/27/2006 1:56:35 PM PST by Stoat
Doggone it! I was hoping all those jerks I see on the road every day yapping on cell phones while they drive were doomed!
"They" are still claiming cell phone start fires, despite what Mythbusters proved.
My only complain about this article is that the words "insipid" and "Larry King" are not in the same sentence.
Smarter! :-)
The rather credible-sounding reports that I've heard have not been that cell phones "start fires" per se, but that when people try to save money by buying cheap, off-brand replacement batteries for their phones that these batteries have, on occasion, actually exploded. There were numerous reports of this happening and documentations of the sometimes serious injuries that have resulted.
None have been reported, to my knowledge, in cases of people using high-quality batteries.
You wouldn't happen to have a link to the article you refer to, by any chance?
Nope, Mythbusters is a cable show.
Well, one COULD say that they are doomed to a fiery death in an auto accident of their own making, as well as being doomed to endless derision, insults and honking from the other drivers in their vicinity who are actually interested in traffic safety and getting to their destination in a timely manner.
Add that number to those who obviously haven't even bothered reading the article or the linked documents before spouting off with a post ("because they CAN, and it's so terribly important to get that post done FAST, after all") and you'll have an overflowing bushel basketful in very short order :-)
Yup. But you're not putting it next to your head pretty much all the time.
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