PSP Sets Fire To Schoolboy's Pants

[Shrygue]

via Kotaku


At the Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills Michigan this morning a fire broke out in a young boy's pants. According to police, the PSP in the student's pocket overheated and exploded, burning a hole in his pocket and causing minor burns on his legs.

A teacher at the school managed to separate the boy from his gaming system, after which a lockdown was instituted at the school to facilitate emergency personnel reaching the injured young man, whose burns were treated on school grounds before being transported to a local hospital. Police are currently investigating the cause of the PSP's malfunction.

In the meantime, you might want to consider moving that puppy from your pocket to a backpack - preferably lined with asbestos, which is easily found at many schools across the country. I've had video games get my pants hot before, but somehow this just seems a whole lot less pleasant.

[Sonicboy 101]

PSP is the new lighter :P

[Triv1um]

Interesting, mine has never really got that warm, even with 333mhz.

[Shrygue]

My guess is that the battery must have blown up with high heat levels but I'm not totally sure on the draw...

[ojdon]

I remember an article on this every site about some of the Third party batteries that were actually pretty dangerous, they could melt the psp, etc. That is my guess on why it happened because he could of brought a third party battery for the PSP.

[NOCHUCK]

Do I smell a lawsuit?? Wait no thats just a PSP melting in my pants.

[tgm123]

pmsl at the comment at the end of the news post lol

[Illegal Machine]

Some fat lady got millions of dollars form McDonalds because her COFFEE was too hot, and burned her legs.


THAT was something that was supposed to be hot and placed intentionally in between the legs..


THIS is a whole new ball of wax, especially since it was a small child... I hope his parents are smart enough to sue the living **** out of $ony, and win

[Mister Klownes]

I've been carrying a PSP in my left cargo pocket almost every day for the last 18 months, end i've never even felt the thing get warm. Something particularly odd had to be going on with this PSP...probably a wonky third party battery as was suggested.

[Nikolaos]

It has to be a third-party battery, that or he goes to school in the desert, sometimes my PSP is running at 333 speed with AC adapter plugged in, while it fell under a nice warm blanket, it got pretty hot, for hours at a time, but my bed wasn't in flames now was it?