Child burned by PSP in his pants
- Filed under: PSP Games, PSP Slim Gadgets, PSP Slimline and Lite
- Date: Feb 7,2008
A kid was burned by a PlayStation Portable in his pocket at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills. The 12 year old Harold Clay had a hole in his pants caused by the fire of the PSP. The school placed a lockdown so that emergency units could get through to help Harold, at the hospital he is being treated for his second-degree burn to the leg. Police are still investigating this accident, but according to the parents of the boy the PSP wasn’t even on. They are planning to contact Sony to see if more of these cases have been reported in the past.
60 Responses for "Child burned by PSP in his pants"
Wierd i went to school there. I was just stumbleupon-ing and when I saw Warner Middle School…i was pretty shocked. Shoutout to all u michiganders out there.
its weird, I’m from Michigan too, and i was stumbleupon-ing as well, i didn’t go to this school, but its weird that we both live in Michigan.
I don’t live in Michigan, but that must suck ass for that kid.
All Michigan?
Coincidence? I think not!
Wow, that sucks. Get a Zune. PSP and iPods burn in your pocket. Plus Zunes are the new cool.
Schools are for learning, not playing games. PSP’s don’t belong in school and the school should have a policy on not bringing that kind of crap.
Marine2171, you are a douchebag.
Lol i got a psp accessories add thing on this page
Should have brought a mudkip.
Also - zune the new cool? Yay, a new product for the sheeple to moan over and to be outdated in 2 years!
Marine2171, how would that stop the thing from burning him in his pants? If we are going off on random tangents…
Cheese: How the hell is it so awesome?
Holy Hell. I’m from Michigan too.
Maybe they are designed to explode so sony can hold the world ransom.
Also the Playstation 3 is a small nuclear device.
This explains the massive price.
I always sneak my cans into michigan for the dime deposit. Last trip: $110.00 Thanks guys!
Oh my, i’m from Michigan too.
I went to the Birmingham public schools, though. Just a stone’s throw away.
omg im from michigan too lol, south lyon…
ok, also from michigan (New Baltimore, college in Ypsilanti), also Stumbling, wtf.
I don’t understand why the school had to be placed on “lockdown” to get the kid out. Was Principal Skinner involved?
Marine2171… god forbid someone listen to music on their way to school or use the thing on their free time like lunch or break.
I also live in Michigan. Weird. Also stumbling…Wayland/GR area….
That would totally suck. If my nintendo DS does that I’ll cry for a few reasons.
No kidding, Michigan you say, Where the hell is Michigan?
OMG I went to middle school…WEIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRD!!!!!!!!!
Look at http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/METRO/802060459/1361/UPDATE
The PSP didn’t catch on fire or explode. I’m guessing it just overheated…But what do you expect for such a small device with no heat dissipation?
Ah, Marine2721, electronics like that are usually against rules. But honestly, those rules are bogus. With a world growing in technology by the week, restrictions like that are, well, way too restricting.
By the way, it was my fire house that was called to attend. I wasn’t the one there, but I certainly got some laughs when our Chief got back.
I live in the USA. That’s close to Michigan, right?
Hey MichiganAlso,
I’m from Michigan too.
I’m from South Lyon too. Wtf mate?
I graduated ‘07 from SLHS
My name’s Kevin
Do you know me?
thats pretty nasty. Looks like the pic I saw the other day of a guy who answered his cell phone while it was plugged in and it burnt up.
Zunes can’t play Monster Hunter Freedom 2.
All of us from Michigan? Battle Creek, here, also StumbleUpon. That’s…more than a little freaky.
Also, work in a video game store and have never seen this. Heck, I own two PSPs. They never even so much as get warm. That’s incredible weirdness.
If I might guess, it’s probable that the people who aren’t from Michigan just aren’t as prone to comment, giving the impression that your entire state happens to be StumbleUponning this. =P
I was gonna say that Garbeld.
Cuz that’s totally true
okay…ive had something like this happen to me before. i have a small background with electronics too…
if a power source has made a circuit, electrons are flowing through it. correct? i had a battery in my pocket once, along with my keys in the same pocket. they were on a caribeener thing, and the battery got wedged inside of it. it made a circuit, and the resistance of the metal increased enough to heat it up and it felt like my pocket was going to catch on fire. im guessing this kid had something to make another path for the flow, and it heated up rapidly and burned him.
Hey, I be a Michigander as well. Middle-of-the-mitten area.
Some fun replies to other fun comments:
Fsck the Zune, iPod, and anything else with DRM crap on it.
School isn’t for learning, silly, it’s for brainwashing and boredom.
No, it’s still not okay to use the word “sheeple”.
Why are only Michigan people posting on here? Ohhh… thats rights, its because Michigan sucks and you all wish you were somewhere else, so you escape to the internet. And by the way, this kid had to be doing something to the PSP for it to overheat like that - the battery doesn’t just burn up like that unless you are doing something to stress it.
I’m from Wisconsin.. does that count? (Yeah, it sucks just as bad).
Josh: he probably had it paused in the middle of a game.
I’d be willing to bet that the kid had a counterfeit battery. Counterfeit batteries do the same thing to cell phones.
ds’s ftw :]
I happen to be from Michigan as well, but I am also from the city. I went to one of the other schools in the district though. I hope that’s covered in the warranty.
Michigan also..is there a regional option in stumble upon?
I don’t think it caught while fire while it wasn’t on. Maybe it was in sleep mode and they mistook it for being off - which I do all the time and lose a lot of game data that way :’( - but I doubt it was off and just spontaneously combusted. So the parents won’t look find much on that. But yea. I’ve heard of other people’s catching fire. Mine just sits there.
Off topic, but I wonder if the parents are secretly trying to scam Sony. Like I was reading on customerssuck dot com yesterday..
there is something up here. I too am from michigan!
There really aren’t that many people from Michigan who stumbled here. It’s just that those who are were more compelled to post.
Like me for instance.
Half an hour away from Farmington Hills
I think that the child had previously hacked a bank using said PSP, and wanted to destroy the evidence, It would have worked, too, if he hadn’t tried to light it while it was in his pocket! BTW, all children under the age of 13 are robots, that’s why they’re so loud, because their volumizer is broken
flint town in the house
OMG I’m from Ohio which is close to Michigan…Stumbling also…
Well, at least the kid now has learned that it can be really expensive to buy cheap 3rd party batteries. After the battery scandal about two years ago, Sony’s batteries are now the safest you can buy anywhere.
Marine, you are fucking stupid. Please die.
It’s horrible, I’ve heard about it a couple of days ago. As a PSP owner it sounds really bad that I can get burned by my PSP…
It’s not the psp itself that explodes, it’s the battery.
It’s happened before, but normally with third party batteries or chargers.
For example - http://www.funtechtalk.com/sony-psp-battery-explodes/
But it’s not very likely to happen at all, so don’t get all worried
Northeastern Michigan here.
OMGZ WTF! i like live in the UK! i was just stumbling and saw this page! Michigan is near the UK right? also i went to school! what a co-incidence!
I Was BORN In Michigan! And I’m Stumbling! And I Don’t Even Like PSP’s, LAWL.
Michigan ROCKS (also stumbling) Traverse City (Base of the tiny peninsula near the pinky)
they can forget about contacting sony to see if it has happened before because even if it has sony will not tell them anything. their best bet is to try a little searching on the web. but not just google there is a search called dogpile.com that checks a whole bunch of the major search engine all at 1 go. i recommend using http://www.dogpile.com to try finding out some info. and if they do contact sony do it thru a lawyer don’t do it as an individual.
OMG! I’m from Asia, and was just stumbling and fell down. lol. I was searching for the PSP Slim and Lite and somehow got intrigued by the article heading. I own a PSP limited edition Champagne Gold, aaahh, its heavy. That’s why I was searching for the Slim and Lite. Oh, new. I hope the incident doesn’t happen to me or anyone else. Due to the others comments on battery packs and the “keys thing”. I sorta know what to avoid.
this is so weird
im from canada. near toronto and uhhh i bet that all these “diffrent ppl” is rly just the same person posting with a diff name ( P.S i wrote this with a PSP and im 16)
Man Harold and me are buds, i play ball with him at the Y, i was shocked when i heard about this, i was like dude i kno this guy
hey, i’m not 4m michigan, i’m from indonesia…
the logical reason why the psp blew is, the child put his psp beside his fire matches, so when he farting, it’s make it a perfect explosion…
that’s cooll!!!!!!!!!
you guys must try it…
I believe he got burned because just because the psp is off doesnt mean that the psp will not stop working.For example when you look at the time on your psp and it say 2:51 and you turn it off so later when you turn your psp back on and the time say 7:39 this means the psp was still in process
to T-REDD
Yes, but you can also take out the Battery. and the PSP will still tell the correct time afterwards! So it really doesnt make a difffernce.
LOL but yeah thats pretty odd… he mustve did something to do the battery maybe?
Oh well.
Hope it doesnt happen to me, well my pockets are too small anyway to fit a PSP haha ><
i dont care but that kid is dumb bringing a fucking psp and having the psp in his pocket just to show off next time he better learn his leason
my god. wierd. im from michigan too. jesus this is a conspiracy… im scared
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