Burned: Phillip Lechter says his new iPhone 6 bent and burst into flames earlier this month, while he was attending a football game at the University of Arizona Yet another iPhone defect has been revealed from a man in Arizona who reports that he suffered serious burns when his phone burst to flames in his pocket. Arizona business coach Phillip Lechter says the incident happened on October 11, while his family was visiting the University of Arizona to watch a football game against USC. On his personal blog, Mr Lechter writes that he was riding to a tailgate party in a rickshaw with his wife and 7-year-old son, when the cart tipped over.
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Phillip Lechter says a rickshaw accident caused his iPhone to bend and then catch fire in his pocket earlier this month
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The business coach says he sustained second-degree burns in the accident, and that he wants Apple to pay his medical bills
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The company has replaced his iPhone 6
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