And now, the latest from the exploding cellphone front: Kris Munford, a 911 dispatcher for the Ogden, Utah, police and fire department, smelled something funny coming from her jacket (and we're going to skip the obvious and crude jokes here, okay?). Before she could do anything, her cellphone had burned through the jacket and landed on the floor, where it exploded, sending plastic shrapnel across the room. As usual, the culprit appears to have been the phone's battery. Munford was shaken but uninjured, and local TV station KSL-TV offered some helpful advice for anyone with a potentially explosive phone: "If it gets too cold outside, just pick up your cellphone. It may be one of those that puts out enough heat to start a fire." Heh, heh. Love that newsroom humor.
