Daughter's iPad charger 'explodes in father's hand' giving him a huge electric shock that 'would have killed her instead'
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
34 year old Tim Gillooley, said he was thrown across the room and left with blackened fingers when he reached down to unplug the device at his mother’s house in Widnes, Cheshire.
According to him, his eight-year-old daughter Chloe would most likely have been killed had it been her, instead of him, who had touched the device.
According to Mr Gillooley Chloe asked him to unplug the charger on his way back from the bathroom on Saturday last weekend.
He said: 'There was a huge bang and it blew me across the room. I was in shock.
'I was hysterically laughing for about two minutes. It was a bad shock that went down my arm. My mum was panicking and Chloe burst into tears.
'Nine times out of 10, Chloe would have gone to get it herself. I think it would have killed her.'
Mr Gillooley, from Warrington, bought the iPad for Chloe’s birthday last November from the Apple store in Liverpool.
But some months later it began to develop charging problems and he returned it to the store but was told there was nothing wrong with the charger or the device.
