Following on from recent iPhone-related horror stories including an air hostess who died from an iPhone electrocution and a man in Chongqing who escaped his exploding device, a Beijing man received a sudden electrocution when he was charging his phone on July 8.
Wu Jiantong, 30, was charging his iPhone 4 when the accident occurred. His sister, Wu Jianxiang recalled that she was standing behind Wu when she suddenly heard a shriek, and then turned around to see him twitching on the floor and foaming at the mouth.
When emergency workers arrived they declared that the shock had caused Wu’s heart to stop beating; he also wasn’t breathing. After being taken to hospital, Wu was put in intensive care for several days and it was only until July 15 that he was able to breathe by himself.
However, a rupture in Wu’s brain has kept him in a coma and the family is struggling to afford the necessary treatment.
Source: Ifeng
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No, it is too "the same" story, all happen when they recharge this i-phones , stupid things ! I would not wasting my money to buy a i-phone just because it is fashion now ! It is the most weird thing ! You can simply buy a cellphone, even the cheapest one, because you are speaking on it the same as speaking on a big and ugly looking i-phone, but this i--phones is just for peoples who has really no brain ..... First, the aspect is very bad looking, big and must stay with your fingers always on it, I can't accept this way and hate it anyway ! Second, always something that is at the begining is very bad ! There is need some years to be the perfect good to buy it , but now it is on testing way only , in special in China where there are so many fake things ! They try to copy the original one and testing it on peoples who get elcetrocutated then or other accidents from it . I have a simple phone, cheap and I hear and speak the same as to an i-phone ! What's the difference ???? But this things are only for peoples who have not what to do with their money ! Instead to pay 5000 yuan to buy an i-phone5, I would pay this money to buy a leptop which is more useful than a phone (i-phone)... But now, peoples can't go to toilet if they have no i-phones ! Stupid fashio and washing of money in your pokets !
Jul 22, 2013 08:52 Report Abuse
Maybe the rupture to the brain was the cause and it had nothing to do with the iPhone. Look at all the bogus Toyota throttle scams, that failed.
Jul 19, 2013 20:13 Report Abuse
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