A Cambridge, Ont. mother was left shaken after her 11-year-old’s cellphone suddenly caught fire in a movie theatre.
No one was hurt but she worries that it could have been a lot worse.
On Monday, Madara Mejoule was waiting for her son and his friend outside the theatre. Wondering why they were taking so long, she went inside to get him. She was shocked by what she saw.
“The whole movie theater was filled with smoke and you could smell there was like a toxic gas smell,” Mejoule recalled.
Her son ran up to her and told her his phone had caught fire.
At first, she was skeptical.
“I didn’t believe that a phone could explode spontaneously,” Mejoule admitted.
She said he accidentally dropped his phone and it slipped between the theatre seats.
“As he went to retrieve it, he pushed down on the seat and then that jammed the phone and it pressurized the …