Use damaged charger recharging your devices is never a good idea, and can have serious consequences: the story of Esther Modede, a 19-year-old student who stayed a few days ago partially blinded from your iPhone charger. Once plugged in, the accessory began to glow and smoke, just before throwing one twinkles in the right eye of the young girl, who then had to undergo medical treatment to recover her lost sight.
Damaged cable
The story was told by the same girl at the Caters agency. Esther had lent her iPhone charger to friends the previous weekend; they then made it a little damaged, really at the welded part with the Lightning interface which is then connected to the phone. The girl still decided to continue using the accessory, but when she plugged it in, she noticed that it was overheating and starting to emit smoke in the damaged part. Esther picked up the phone and started film what was happening, without imagining that the situation could get even worse as it did then: the short circuit between the exposed cables generated sparks, one of which ended up in Esther’s right eye.
Testimonial on TikTok
The student also documented everything on TikTok, showing when the cable started to overheat: in the clip you can see the heat from the electricity melt the protective sheath of the cable and further damage it before the actual accident, the moments of which are not documented. The girl attached photos of the hospital and of her face with the medicated eye to the tiktok, adding to the story that she was temporarily and partially blinded by the sparks. In subsequent tiktoks, Esther claims that she still sees the blur of the affected eye.
The girl claimed that the charger was a original apple accessory, but the cause of the accident remains uncertain: it all depends on how the cable was initially damaged on weekends that preceded the events – that is, if it was broken by Esther’s friends or if it all started from a production flaw. In any case, the advice to avoid similar accidents is never to use electrical products, even partially damaged – such as worn cables and repaired with insulating tape – and especially to immediately move away from products that represent a potential danger. imminent after securing them.
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