Beware Kyocera Owners

[Arel]

From CNN:

A 16-year-old California girl suffered second degree burns Thursday when her cell phone caught fire in her back pocket, according to the Ontario Fire Department.

The teenager was volunteering at an Ontario youth recreation center when witnesses heard a loud "whooshing" sound, said Frank Huddleston, a fire department investigator.

Huddleston said the victim didn't even know what was happening, and witnesses said they thought it was fireworks.

Witness then saw her pocket explode with smoke and fire, he said.

The girl was in a kitchen and near a pot of water, so the flames were quickly extinguished, Huddleston said.

The victim was transported to Chino Valley Medical Center where she was treated and released with small second-degree burns to her right buttock.

The phone is a Verizon Kyocera, but because of damage investigators could not tell the model number.

Ontario is east of Los Angeles near San Bernardino.

[yapi]

Haha, I used to have a Kyocera cellphone. I liked it because it looked a lot like the cellphones they have in Japan :P

Never exploded though. Haha. I guess Kyocera phones are like Volkswagen Beetles? Known to just suddenly combust? :P

I like Beetles too, though.

[vicicasas]

So in other words you are unknowingly attracted to things that spontaneously combust ... :lol:

[Adel]

Talk about hotlines...

[yapi]

Originally posted by vicicasas
So in other words you are unknowingly attracted to things that spontaneously combust ... :lol:

haha let's just hope it doesn't happen to the humans I'm attracted to XD Although nobody has really proved the phenomenon of human spontaenous combustion to be true... yet

[peter_ob]

Originally posted by Arel
From CNN:

...Huddleston said the victim didn't even know what was happening, and witnesses said they thought it was fireworks.

Witness then saw her pocket explode with smoke and fire, he said...

This is one for the books. The mystery of the exploding ass.