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Guangzhou, CHINA – A man has died after his mobile phone exploded, severing a major artery in his neck, according to reports.

The man, thought to be a shop assistant in his twenties at a computer shop in Guangzhou, China, died after he put a new battery in his phone. It was believed that he may have just finished charging the battery and had put the phone in his breast pocket when it exploded.

According to the local Chinese daily Shin Min Daily News, the accident happened on January 30 at 7.30pm. An employee at the shop told Chinese media that she heard a loud bang and saw her colleague lying on the floor of the shop in a pool of blood. The employee said the victim had recently changed the battery in his mobile phone.

Chinese authorities have yet to determine the make and model of the phone and its battery. Some reports indicated the store was a Lenovo shop, but it was thought that this might be because the shop advertised Lenovo computer products. Police were investigating whether the phone and battery were counterfeit.

Local reports said that this was the ninth recorded cellphone explosion in China since 2002. In the most high profile recent incident, in June 2007, a 22-year-old welder, Xiao Jinpeng, died from chest wounds when his mobile phone exploded while he was at work at an iron mill in Gansu province.

A local government inquiry found that the mobile phone battery had exploded due to the heat of the iron mill. Lithium batteries are widely used in mobile phones – but if they are overcharged or exposed to heat, the inflammable liquid inside can explode.

Motorola and Nokia, two of the world’s biggest mobile phone makers, denied links to the distributors of problem batteries in China, suggesting they were counterfeit.

After the latest incident, the Shin Min Daily News published advice for consumers on how to avoid mobile phone explosions. The tips included:

- Always use original batteries. Be sure that batteries by the manufacturer are meant for your mobile phone.

- Never modify your phone

- Always use original battery chargers

- Do not expose your mobile phone to high temperatures, and avoid exposing it to direct sunlight

- Avoid long phone conversations

- Do not make or answer calls when the phone is charging

- Try to keep your phone in a bag instead of in a pocket

- Do not use damaged batteries

Source: TimesOnline Link Filed under Weird World News

Photo courtesy of Cape Coral Police Dept.

Cape Coral, FLORIDA – A Cape Coral man, who was arrested after allegedly engaging in sexual acts with two blow up dolls in a shopping center parking lot, told police he was there to buy clothes for his dolls, according to a report released today.

George Bartusek Jr., was arrested on charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace after witnesses watched him engage in sexual acts inside a car with the dolls, police said.

Officer Jeffrey Karau said he was called to the Publix parking lot at Santa Barbara Boulevard, where a large crowd had gathered around a beige Lincoln Town Car. “On my arrival, numerous people at the vehicle began yelling at me and pointing inside the vehicle,” Karau said.

Karau said he spoke with Publix store manager Frederick Wiggins, who asked Bartusek, to leave the parking lot several times because of his actions.

“I then spoke to other witnesses who stated in their written sworn statements that the defendant was performing activity with two different blow up dolls in his vehicle that was consistent with masturbation and other simulated sexual activity,” Karau said in his report.

Bartusek appeared to intentionally park in the first space in front of the Publix to attract attention, the report said. “After my investigation it was determined, that Bartusek’s actions were corrupting the public’s morals and outraged the sense of public decency,” the officer wrote.

The officer said Bartusek told him he was at the shopping center to buy clothes for his dolls at the nearby Target.

Karau said Bartusek’s shorts — with a large opening in the front — were confiscated after the arrest. He was not wearing underwear, the officer said, so he was given a gown to wear while transported to the jail for booking.

Police said he could face additional charges.

Source: News-Press.com  link filed under Weird Sex News

On the afternoon of June 12, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked into the woods in Bois de Boulogne, France, carrying two suitcases. The postgraduate student at the Sorbonne had shot and killed a female exchange student, a classmate of his, the day before. After eating portions of her body, he tried to dump the corpse in a remote lake. Witnesses saw him and he was soon arrested. According to reports, Issei uttered the following to the French police who raided his home: “I killed her to eat her flesh.”

French psychologists found Sagawa to have been legally insane at the time of the crime and, therefore, unfit to stand trial. He was subsequently exempted from prosecution. He returned to his homeland, where Japanese authorities tried to put him on trial for murder. French justice officials refused to hand over the necessary documents to carry on and he was again set free.

In his own words:

Around the time I entered junior high school I became obsessed with the Western actress Grace Kelly—an obsession that lasted right through high school. That was the beginning of my infatuation with Occidental people. Before I knew it, tall, healthy-looking Western women became the trigger for my cannibalistic fantasies. I guess my infatuation with such women stemmed from the fact that I was short, ugly, and had an inferiority complex and therefore sought people who were the exact opposite of myself. Eventually, I began feeling a strong desire to bite into them—not to kill them or eat them per se, but merely to gnaw on their flesh. It was purely a form of sexual desire. It wasn’t like I felt like eating someone every time I was hungry. But you know how you tend to feel a stronger sexual desire when you’ve eaten a full meal? That’s when I would start feeling the urge to eat a girl. It’s absurd, right? In essence, it’s different from the type of hunger that people experience for food. This cannibalistic urge, “I want to eat human meat,” is a sort of sexual appetite…

To read the full macabre and fascinating interview, head over to Vice Magazine

It has been called the Betty Ford clinic for jihadists and within minutes of arriving at the Care Rehabilitation Centre on the outskirts of Riyadh, you can see why. The small complex, where the Saudi Arabian government is exploring a new way of reforming its wayward radicals, feels more like an exclusive boarding school than a Saudi jail.

Inmates have access to swimming pools, table tennis and PlayStations. In the evenings, guards and prisoners play football. An air-conditioned tent sits adjacent to the sports field, serving as a dining hall and common room where the prisoners are served rice and lamb with fresh fruit.

In return for this privileged treatment, the prisoners – Islamic extremists, some of whom are convicted murderers – are obliged to attend lessons based around Islamic law and the jurisprudence of jihad. A team of psychologists teaches detainees how they should manage their emotions, particularly when reacting to world events.

The Saudi government insists all this is necessary to promote genuine rehabilitation and foster a meaningful relationship with the jihadists. But in the easy-going atmosphere of the “resort” – nobody calls it a prison – where inmates are referred to as “beneficiaries”, it is easy to forget the seriousness of some of their crimes.

The centre is divided into six areas, four of which hold Saudi nationals who fought (or tried to) in Iraq. The other two hold returnees from Guantanamo Bay.

The government has realized that the use of force alone will not contain Al-Qaeda. It has created an ideological security unit that coordinates the kingdom’s efforts in the war of ideas against its native jihadists. Those arrested in connection with terrorism are routinely subjected to attempts to reform their thinking. Hundreds of men have passed through the Saudi program, which has been viewed as a model for similar efforts elsewhere.

Since the program started in 2004, Nine graduates, including some who had been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, have been arrested for rejoining terrorist groups .

The Saudi Interior Ministry acknowledged the arrests after it emerged last week that two other graduates had joined the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda. Both had been released from Guantanamo, in Cuba, in 2007, and one is suspected of having helped plan a deadly attack in Yemen last year.

Sources: Times Online &  Sydney Morning Herald  -  filed under Weird World News

Residents of Morris County, New Jersey were recently visited by UFOs. Five strange red lights appeared in the sky. The lights seemed to move together in groups, a trio and a duo. They were seen by dozens of people.

Paul Hurley, who is a pilot, saw the lights and immediately ruled out the possibility of airplanes, citing his 20 years experience in the aviation industry.

Here’s another video of eye-witnesses on Fox News that backs up the sighting.

CANBERRA — Two Myanmar fishermen have survived for almost a month in shark-infested waters by floating in a large ice box after their boat sank, rescue officials said.

The men, both aged in their 20s, were on a 12-meter Thai wooden fishing boat with 18 others when it sank in heavy seas off Australia’s north coast on December 23, said Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Tracey Jiggins.

“They had no safety equipment, no beacons, no means of communication and they’d been drifting for 25 days,” Jiggins told Reuters on Tuesday, describing the ice box as “desk sized.”

“For them to have even been spotted in a huge body of water is amazing,” she said.

The men were spotted by an Australian coastal patrol aircraft on Saturday. They were winched onto a rescue helicopter and taken to hospital on Thursday Island, off Australia’s far north.

“They were desperately keen to get on. When they got up they drank 2 liters of water each, within seconds,” helicopter pilot Terry Gadenne told Australian television.

A photograph taken by Customs aircraft showed the pair standing in a high, red-sided ice box used by commercial fishing boats and desperately waving at rescuers, surrounded by open sea.

Hospital officials said the pair were hungry and dehydrated after drifting 25 days at sea during the monsoon season and recent cyclonic storms in the region, but they were recovering well and would be released later on Tuesday.

The pair would then be questioned by immigration officials and police, who had not yet determined how the pair survived and what they did for food and water.

Jiggins said the others on board the boat would certainly have perished and no search for other survivors was planned.

Source: NewsDaily Link Filed under Weird World News.