Aug 2 2009iPhone Allegedly Catches Fire, Ruins Upholstry

wow! thats crazy

I wish my iPod Touch could do that., because then I would give it to someone...

Oh, BURN!!! That's the hottest phone on the market, etc... etc....

4th yaya

Weren't there stories about a year or so ago about phones supposedly bursting into flames?
What I don't understand is if the phone flamed-on like that in the car, why didn't the rest of the car catch fire as well?
True spontaneous combustion anyone? Quick, call TAPS! Ghost Hunters aaaaaawwwwwaaaaayyyyyyyy!

FAKE!!!!

Thats a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja were racing with people shooting at them. Max put the napalm in the ejector seat, and made it get all over the guy behind them. Then Baja used the cigarette lighter to light the guy up.

That's some pretty bad gas right there, I have some old jeans that look a lot like that

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you can't legally get an iphone under anything but at&t right? if this was really under t-mobile then its the guys fault for breaking service

looks like zaboomafoo needs the pepto

I WISH I COULD poo piping steamy cellphone turds

god zaboo !!

that's one way to get your car that smoky i-scent

@11, Chris, most of the world outside of the U.S. deals with T-Mobile and not at&t. I don't even even think at&t is an international company that deals outside of the U.S. (Read: Your logic fails).

@10 not 11

HOLY SHIT?! Is that an Opel Astra?!

Ha ha - flameo, hotman.

GW, that $10, it was mine. I lost it accidentally one day. Plz email it back to me plz. You can keep a 25-cents as a finder fee. But the rest is mine cause I lost it. ty.

It is sad that the apple products tend lagging behind the fire, but otherwise they have many fine qualities. Like my hair, except in the electronics industry. Robots sometimes moving through cars and catches and neighborhoods also a great many fires, and so on. But nobody says that is one thing that must be called or in property.

We taking bets Apple calls it the fault of the Belkin case causing it to overheat?

Apple is like a giant twig and berries that has crabs called geniuses. Together they conspire to attach themselves to your wallet's pubes. Burn them all with fire.

I heart my iPhone though. Now I'm all itchy

ha! sucks for him!
wonder if he had iphone insurance..

Fix a windmill and make a pair of wooden shoes....ahahahahahahaha

Apple should make that into an app ...

i do not believe this at all. not at all. no way.

if anything, it was that belkin case

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thats a spicy phoneball!

Apple did that car a favor. The dutch guy should consider himself lucky that he even got to hold an iphone. What most likely happened was the holiness of the iphone burn through the Dutch guy's car seat because that's where he sins daily by sticking his fingers in dikes.

clearly the work of jordan van der sloot.

That's not an iphone... that's goliaths cigarette lighter...

That's a disgraceful translation. :( Here's a better one. The original message was pretty badly written, so the translation isn't that good either. Fail. >_<

Dutch iPhone 3G spontaneously combusts

While we've already seen images of the IPhone 3G spontaneously melting or burning while its charging, we have not yet seen it spontaneously combust. Today Pieter held the dubious honor of being the first to own a spontaneously combusting iPhone 3G.

The phone was lying on his passenger seat in stand-by mode. It was charging, as had been the case in previous incidents.

When Pieter returned to his car, thick, black smoke was wafting out the window. The cause? His iPhone 3G. Besides a completely ruined IPhone 3G, Pieter's car had sustained considerable damage as well.

Pieter has contacted Apple Netherlands and T-Mobile, but neither Apple nor T-Mobile have taken resonsibility for the incident. As far as we can tell, Apple has reimbursed similar incidents in other countries. Hopefully Pieter will receive the same.

@ myself: It was NOT charging, as had been the case in previous incidents.

Even more faaaaaaaaaail. :)

And to prove I really have nothing else to do while I'm at work, here's a reaction from the victim's girlfriend in response to all the people saying he faked it.
:P

Dear readers,

This story concerns MY car too. So, no, it's not a fake story, and I'm not 'attention-seeking'. Yeah, the car's hideous and old, but it IS officially approved. Pieter used it every day to drive to work.

Still, I don't think it matters what kind of car it is, or that it was old. That shouldn't matter, it just shouldn't catch fire.

Besides that, Pieter wasn't just 'gone'. He was just down the road, helping a friend to load his vacation stuff into a different car. That's why his phone was in the passenger seat, with headset (ya know, so you can CALL while driving). It was lying there for 15 minutes, tops. (Not sure why I'm saying this, since everyone's so mean...)

I really hope this gets solved, and still I'm hapyp that this happened in the car, and not on the couch in our home!

Best,

Pieter's girlfriend

PS. Yeah, I welcome representatives from the companies to come and look at the damage, and judge for themselves! But THEY asked US to get in touch with a damage-expert ! Kind of weird! Still no solution, and no real help. That's why we brought out the story... I'm a big Apple fan myself, so it's not about dissing them... I just don't want this to happen again !

So what did everyone get up to this weekend?

Here is what naas GFS and I got up to....

http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan/wtf.jpg

Would be so great if he was listentening to "Boom Boom Pow" when it happened

@35 Ha did you ever untie her from under the sink or did you follow shum & I out when we heard the police coming!?

Now he should re-sell the phone on eBay and make back the money to replace his seat. You know _some_ idiot will buy it.

MILK!

That's what you get for owning that garbage!!

Well, that's a bummer. Your also not suppose to leave it in the car fools. Hot places and things like that don't go well together.

Maybe it's rebelling because AT&T/Apple won't let the google voice app run on it.

You would think that there would be more burn marks around that seat if it were really damaged by fire. And if it was, I would say the much more likely scenario is that the guy dropped his cigarette on the passenger seat with the phone on it before he left. Probably just a dumb person who couldn’t figure out what really happened or is making up a story to cover for his stupidity- you know, one of those people who uses aliens or magic to explain things we don’t understand.

Hmm catching fire in a car again, who made the charger?

That's not a fake picture, it's just that it isn't an Iphone, but a cheap-ass replica of somekind... I don't see a look-a-like apple-logo anywhere do you? It more looks like mirrored Russian or something. Look it up.

Gr, Caspar

Its not a i phone but a belkin!!!!!!!!!!!

its not a ipod its a belkin gps

it seems that only wesley and i have good eyes

It's not a Belkin phone it's a Belkin case when you use everything at the same time like gps gprs and application like maps and you use it as iPod the iPhone uses a lot of his capabilities and get "hot" when you have a case like this on the it wil get hotter and hotter because it can't cool down. Then you can get this kind of things.
So Burn iPhone Burn!