My iPad charger exploded

[HyperX13]

My ipad charger was plugged into the wall socket all day without an ipad. I heard a loud pop and found this

Ideas?

Is this common?

It was not plugged into the ipad itself. Just on it's own. No weird power surges or anything.

 

[miles01110]

Not common.

 

[uberamd]

Is this common?

Did you really just ask if an exploding iPad charger is common?

 

[Forker]

Happened to me with my new mbp last year..

 

[rdowns]

Call Apple. They'll be very interested in talking to you. I bet they ask you to ship it to them.

 

[184550]

Call Apple, even if it's for nothing more than to get a replacement charger.

 

[HyperX13]

Call Apple. They'll be very interested in talking to you. I bet they ask you to ship it to them.

I sent my assistant to the genius bar on Michigan ave in Chicago.. he is probably there now...

 

[Nishi100]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

1) Ring Apple.
2) When get say: " Are any of you possessions, apart from the charger, damaged."
3) Reply "Yes, my £20,000 table and chair."
4) Self inflict damage on objects, so, when the Apple representative comes, he'll see the damage.
5) Get £20,000, for a table and chair that cost £150.

But, seriously that should't happen, even if you did leave it on all day without an iPad in it; unless the charger became hot and water droplets appeared on the exposed connector.

 

[yamabushi]

Looks like it arced between parts inside the wall plug or between parts in the wall plug and the USB connector.

 

[Resist]

While thankfully an issue like this is not common, it's the main reason I never leave things plugged in when not in use.