Motorola DROID 2 allegedly explodes in man’s ear

By on Dec 3, 2010 at 2:19 PM
mobile December 3, 2010

According to a report from a local Dallas-Forth Worth Fox affiliate, a man was injured Thursday morning when his Motorola DROID 2 allegedly exploded next to his head. Aron Embry was reportedly trying to make a call when he heard a popping sound come from his phone. He felt no pain initially, but immediately felt blood dripping on his neck. Upon further investigation, Embry realized that the display on his DROID 2 “had appeared to burst outward.” He then drove to his wife’s job to have her take pictures before before calling 911. Embry was in the emergency room for several hours, where he received four stitches in his left ear. He did not suffer any hearing loss as a result of the alleged incident, and he said his DROID 2 smartphone still works despite the damage.

Dallas-area cell phone repair man Daniel Harrison said, based on footage of the phone after the accident, the damage “looks like it was actually user caused.” Harrison gave no evidence to support his claim.

Motorola said it would be contacting Embry to investigate the matter. Considering he drove to his wife’s job to have her take pictures of the injury before seeking medical attention, Motorola can likely look forward to hearing from Embry’s lawyers as well.

Hit the jump for a video of the Fox report.

[Via Switched]

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  • Mgl323

    He liked the Droid 2 for its features. I guess he didn’t know about that feature.

  • Person199412

    FAKE AND GAY

  • http://twitter.com/jackrazzlin Jack Azlin

    Sounds like a case of a douchebag dropping his phone and not wanting to pay for screen replacement.

  • VirginMerry

    Kind of makes that “death grip” issue on that other phone…..(not to be iMentioned) a bit trivial……Droid Does!!

  • drew dogg

    Lying ass bastard. Just like the guy who found a finger in his Chile at wendys they’ll find he’s lying. That shit is literally impossible! The phone was already cracked and it scratched his ear then he thought hmm… I bet I can make a little money on this. Pls foo!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=47702625 Anonymous

    I have (unfortunately) dropped my droid 2 face down on the sidewalk and the glass looks similar to that phone, although not as bad. My ear hasn’t been filled with glass and the surface is actually smooth, with a couple of rough spots but nothing nearly enough to cut you or ‘explode’ in your ear.

  • Jsmith

    Try Bluetooth next time!!!

  • DroidLvR

    Is there proof of the “explosion”? Hard to believe…

  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    Droid “Mossad” Edition.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matt.mingkee Matt Tsui

    Wow!
    I have XT720 (GSM version of Droid excluding keyboard). Sometimes it gets hot when talking more than 10 minutes, so I switched to MyTouch 4 (I have T-Mobile).
    I think I am lucky that I caught the problem earlier.

  • 3vil

    FYI If you want to act like Van Gogh, use a knife, not a phone… Just because he didn’t pick up the knife is no reason to sue Motorola.

  • Paul Yindeemark

    I think his ear was cut because of broken glass not exploded.

  • SF

    I’m sure he will fail a lie detector test.

  • Sebastian

    Well there you go a white trailer trash trying to get some money!!!

  • Tech_User

    Droid DOES explode in your ear, wonder why it isnt mentioned in their commercials

  • Carpcmelee

    In b4 millions of people claim to have had the same thing happen to them, and make Motorola recall every phone in existence bearing their name

  • Rob M

    Well, that dude looks legit.
    hahaha

  • Lily

    As crazy as it seems, He will need to show proof . Seems like the screen crack and he tried to use it and rubbed it against his ear! Smh.. My g1 cracked and i used it perfectly fine never did the glass come off or anything . So there is some investigating to do.. An if it was such an emergency why travel else were?? Why not straight to the ER ..

  • Anonymous

    highly suspicious

  • Anonymous

    Droid does.

  • Octotron

    This guy is so full of shit, it makes me sick.

  • Anna

    1 word….liar. (or three words…big fat liar.)

  • LGR

    *BOEM* …. Uhhh can you repeat that?

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