Rumor: Don't Answer Cell Phone While It's Charging!

Take Your Pants Off

Apparently a man died last year:

Subject: Cell phone charging

VERY IMPORTANT..PLEASE READ

Never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being CHARGED!!

A few days ago, a person was recharging his cell phone at home.

Just at that time a call came and he answered it with the instrument still connected to the outlet.

After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud.

His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers.

He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Cell phones are a very useful modern invention.

However, we must be aware that it can also be an instrument of death.

Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet!

So is this true or not, because I have answered so many calls while my phone was charging and I felt nothing.

solomafioso

lyke dis if u cryd evrytyme

endacl

Wouldn't this feel more at home on Facebook?

J_E

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/cellcharge.asp

Thanks Snopes and Google!

In short, 99% of the time, no.

I died like 7 times last year from doing that and I've no fingerprints left so I can't even go to America any more.

Ghost Buster

Im lighting this virtual candle for all victims of phone charging death. Only my REAL friends will do the same.

Senna

Tinfoil hat protects you from everything

efb

srsly wtf

michael999999

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Apparently a man died last year:

Subject: Cell phone charging

VERY IMPORTANT..PLEASE READ

Never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being CHARGED!!

A few days ago, a person was recharging his cell phone at home.

Just at that time a call came and he answered it with the instrument still connected to the outlet.

After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud.

His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers.

He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Cell phones are a very useful modern invention.

However, we must be aware that it can also be an instrument of death.

Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet!

So is this true or not, because I have answered so many calls while my phone was charging and I felt nothing.

If you do it while in the bath you'll be okay!

rustedtrumpet

You have no friends to talk to on the phone so no wonder it didnt happen to you.

sawdoubters

electric vibrators can do the same

IvaBigWun

I like that this thread was unlocked for the lolz it will bring

Stained Class

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Apparently a man died last year:

Subject: Cell phone charging

VERY IMPORTANT..PLEASE READ

Never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being CHARGED!!

A few days ago, a person was recharging his cell phone at home.

Just at that time a call came and he answered it with the instrument still connected to the outlet.

After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud.

His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers.

He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Cell phones are a very useful modern invention.

However, we must be aware that it can also be an instrument of death.

Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet!

So is this true or not, because I have answered so many calls while my phone was charging and I felt nothing.

I love that word.

Don't believe all you read on the Internet.

michael999999

Stained Class wrote: »

I love that word.

Don't believe all you read on the Internet.

Why should we believe were not to believe anything we read on the internet?

johnnyskeleton

Boring answer - the transformer used for the phone and your circuit breakers make it almost impossible to receive a fatal charge from a household appliance. However, if you plug your phone directly into the mains after replacing your circuit breakers with chewing gum wrappers, then it's possible.

keelanj69

For every thank I will donate 10c to Mobile Charger Related Death research. Together we can beat this.

Pinch Flat

5v from my USB - sh!tting myself while I type this

Stojkovic

Two people died having sex while hooked up to a car battery.

Not sure if charging phone aswell.

Ruu

Read that as Don't Take Your Pants Off While It's Charging. >_>

Stained Class

michael999999 wrote: »

Why should we believe were not to believe anything we read on the internet?

When you see the word Apparently, it's always a bad sign.

MOH

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being CHARGED!!

This is true. It can be extremely dangerous, or even fatal, to answer your phone while it's being charged. Whether by a rhino, or any large animal. Just leave the phone, let them have it. It's probably the ringing that's annoying them anyway.

So is this true or not, because I have answered so many calls while my phone was charging and I felt nothing.

Not sure how your lack of emotion is relevant to your original query

Stavros Murphy

Gooood Afternoon Sah..

Yamanoto

Don't cut your toenails with a scythe, that was another one.

Stavros Murphy

keelanj69 wrote: »

For every thank I will donate 10c to Mobile Charger Related Death research. Together we can beat this.

did myself a damage reading that.

Radharc na Sleibhte

What the fook is a cell phone?
You mean sell phone?
Or cling film stuff, is it?

Ted_YNWA

Yamanoto wrote: »

Don't cut your toenails with a scythe, that was another one.

Still the burning question, can we eat yellow snow?

Radharc na Sleibhte

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Apparently a man died last year:

Ah yeah, a few men did.
A few good men.

The King of Moo

"Well Joe, I heard there that the young lads on the facebook do be skullin' a pint while talking on their mobiles while they're chargin' an' it makes yer head explode."

castletownman

And if your "cell" phone is a Nokia 3210, and you drop it, the shockwaves it causes can be felt around the world.

Dangerous yokes thems Nokia 3210s

Stavros Murphy

sawdoubters wrote: »

electric vibrators can do the same

Make calls and text? Where'd you get it?

EuropeanSon

Cydoniac wrote: »

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/cellcharge.asp

Thanks Snopes and Google!

In short, 99% of the time, no.

1 out of every 100 people who answer their plugged in phone will die? **** me. Never doing that again then.

efb

autoerotic asphyxia better way to go

Stavros Murphy

EuropeanSon wrote: »

1 out of every 100 people who answer their plugged in phone will die? **** me. Never doing that again then.

100% of people who answer their phones will die. Eventually.

EuropeanSon

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

100% of people who answer their phones will die. Eventually.

I haven't died yet!

Sir Arthur Daley

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

100% of people who answer their phones will die. Eventually.

And that my friends is a fact.

mikom

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Apparently a man died last year:

You OK hun?

keelanj69

EuropeanSon wrote: »

1 out of every 100 people who answer their plugged in phone will die? **** me. Never doing that again then.

What a boring life you lead. I'm a thrill seeker, duuude. YOLO, carpe diem etc etc.

Stavros Murphy

WikiHow wrote: »

And that my friends is a fact.

it must be - I read it there on the internet a minute ago.

Sir Arthur Daley

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

it must be - I read it there on the internet a minute ago.

Dont believe everything you read on google, its a bad lad.

Stavros Murphy

WikiHow wrote: »

Dont believe everything you read on google, its a bad lad.

I didn't read it on Google, I read it here:

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

100% of people who answer their phones will die. Eventually.

that lad is never, ever, wrong. Ever. much.

Christy Browne

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

I have answered so many calls while my phone was charging and I felt nothing.

You're one of the lucky ones.

Stavros Murphy

Christy Browne wrote: »

You're one of the lucky ones.

A "Survivor"?

This needs a name -how about KCMS?. Killer charging mobile syndrome. There can be a Helpline, for "Survivors of KCMS". Someone should register it as a charity.

kneemos

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

What the fook is a cell phone?
You mean sell phone?
Or cling film stuff, is it?

Phones prisoners use,can be purchased from the vaginas of friends and relatives.

cloud493

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

100% of people who answer their phones will die. Eventually.

Except Bruce Forsyth.

Stavros Murphy

cloud493 wrote: »

Except Bruce Forsyth.

He's actually animatronic.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

What the fook is a cell phone?

It's what you use in prison!

stoneill

I can never get electricity flowing unrestrained when I need it.

Stavros Murphy

Deleted User wrote: »

It's what you use in prison!

I read somwhere that if prisoners stuff a mobile phone that is still plugged in and charging up their bums to hide them, there's a good chance the Prison guards will have a lead as to what they're up to.

BrensBenz

There will be many more, life-saving tips available soon....very early April, for instance.

In the meantime,

• Don't walk on the cracks in the footpath. Millions of people die from that every year;
• Don't go out without your vest;
• Attach a copper wire from your tinfoil hat to the ground so that you're always earthed;
• Fit a Baby on Board sticker to your car window so that other drivers will take special care not to crash into you;
• Keep your electric toothbrush dry because water conducts electricity;
• And, for God's sake, don't swallow chewing gum.

Sideshow Mark

Hey OP, there's a Nigerian Prince I know who needs some help moving some money. I think you could help. PM me.

Zen65

efb wrote: »

autoerotic asphyxia better way to go

You can talk about the dangers of this until you're blue in the face!