In an email to the editorial office, she wrote:
I wanted to warn mobile phone users not to leave their devices unattended at home and to be careful around children. On December 23, my son was using a phone at home, and shortly afterward it exploded. More precisely, the phone’s battery exploded. Fortunately, my son noticed that the phone was getting hot and placed it on the windowsill. A moment later, strange sounds began coming from the device, the back of the phone came off, the battery “swelled,” and the phone began spinning, with sparks flying from it (let us remember that the battery contains acid, which was also leaking out). It fell onto the floor, incredibly hot.
Fortunately, the child was not holding it at the time, otherwise his face and hands would have been burned.
The room now has burned floor panels, a smoke-blackened window, and walls black as tar. If the child had not been frightened and run to me screaming, the house could have caught fire. The phone was less than a year old, and all its parts were original LG components.
She added:
Filing a complaint with LG by email is a major problem. I will now try
by regular mail. We will see how they respond. I had never heard of a battery exploding like this before. I will think a hundred times before giving my child a phone. Be careful!
The woman described the entire incident to us in a telephone conversation. The whole room was filled with smoke and smelled of acid. “The battery became so hot that we could not pick up the phone. It is unbelievable that a battery could behave like this in a year-old device,” emphasizes the resident of our county. “This is not a phone from an auction website; I bought it at the Media Expert store in Legnica.”
We will return to this topic.