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Man sleeping with charging iPhone suffers severe burns

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Commentary: An Alabama man wakes, his dog tag makes contact with the charger and he gets a severe electric jolt.
A shot of Day’s injuries.
“I just thought that’s how you die. ”
These were the words of 32-year-old Wiley Day to WAAY-TV after he had a bad experience with his iPhone.
He said he fell asleep with it charging via an extension cord next to him in bed.
When he woke up on Thursday morning, he discovered that his dog-tag necklace had become entangled in a space that had emerged between the extension cord and the charger.
He says he was jolted to the floor by the forces of electricity, but he was able to break the chain off his neck in time.

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