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		</div><p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><i><span style="color:red;">E-cigarette turns to e-rocket<br />
Explodes in man&#8217;s pocket &#8216;like a rocket&#8217; </span><br />
<span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-size:large;">&#8211; &#8216;melting&#8217; his leg and missing his son by inches </span></span></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">A shocking e-cigarette explosion has been caught on camera &#8211; as a battery bursts into flames in a man’s pocket just inches from his seven-year-old son.</span></span></h1>
<p>Mick Bennett, 47, was severely burned and spent 10 days in Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, needing skin grafts.<br />
He has also lost some feeling in his leg due to nerve damage.<br />
Mick, from Bamford, Rochdale , had been skating around Bury Roller Rink with two of his children when the battery “went off like a rocket”.<br />
You can seen in the video how the electrician was going to take the hand of his youngest son Michael when his pocket all of a sudden combusted,<br />
<a name="more"></a><a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ecig-explodes-pocket-video-bury-10965865">reports Manchester Evening News.</a></p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Shock: Michael has also lost some feeling in his leg due to nerve damage" src="http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7464995.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><b>Shock: Michael has also lost some feeling in his leg due to nerve damage </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>Mick said: “I’d been picking my son up the whole time as he kept falling over, that explosion could’ve been in his face.<br />
“I’d taken a day off work to take my eldest and youngest rollerskating as my wife Rosemary needed to work.<br />
“The battery wasn’t even on, I don’t know what happened, it just went off like a Roman candle or something.</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Danger: The 47-year-old was with his two sons when the explosion occurred" src="http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7465000.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-47-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett, 47, from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="620" /></div><figcaption>Danger: The 47-year-old was with his two sons when the explosion occurred</figcaption></figure>
<p><i>“The lights came on and the music went off – people were just staring at me, and then the manager ran over to see if I was okay.”</i><br />
Mick said his trousers had melted and were smouldering and he also ended up with burns to his hands from trying to put out the flames.</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Horror: Mick said his trousers had melted" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7464996.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><b>Horror: Mick said his trousers had melted </b></figcaption></figure>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Charred: The remains of the e-cigarette following the explosion" src="http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7464999.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><b>Charred: The remains of the e-cigarette following the explosion </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>He now has to attend hospital every two days for his burns to be redressed.<br />
“It was a nightmare, I was in shock and the kids were just silent, they were terrified,” he added.<br />
“These things shouldn’t be able to just go off like that. I’ve been onto trading standards as well as the remains of the battery is now with them.”</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" src="http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7464998.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><b>Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>Mick has now sought legal advice from Manchester-based Carter and Carter Solicitors.<br />
“It was a scary experience. I turned to ecigs two years ago to quit smoking. Since this happened I haven’t touched one and certainly don’t intend to,” he added.<br />
The M.E.N. has contacted the makers of the EFEST battery for a response.</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="CCTV: The e-cigarette is caught on camera as it explodes" src="http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7465079.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett, 47, from Bamford, Rochdale, was in hospital for 10 days and needed skin grafts after an ecig battery exploded in his pocket while he was at a roller skating rink with his children. The explosion was caught on camera" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><b>CCTV: The e-cigarette is caught on camera as it explodes </b></figcaption></figure>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="image-credit">Photo: MEN Media</span></i></span> <img class="captify" title="Injured: Mick Bennett was severely burned and spent 10 days in Wythenshawe Hospital" src="http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7464997.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Michael-Bennett-from-Bamford-Rochdale.jpg" alt="Michael Bennett from Bamford, Rochdale" width="615" height="620" /></div><figcaption><b>Injured: Mick Bennett was severely burned and spent 10 days in Wythenshawe Hospital </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>Last week <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/mum-suffers-horrendous-leg-burns-7417230">mum Jana Barker</a> was left with horrific burns to her legs after the same brand battery exploded in her handbag while she was in the car with her daughter and husband.<br />
Just weeks earlier, another young woman ended up needing plastic surgery after her EFEST battery combusted in her flat.<br />
Kirby Sheen’s eye lid was split in two by the mouth-piece of the device which was propelled towards her by the blast.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Credit: manchestereveningnews </i></span></p>
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