Ipod Touch overheating to the point of causing a fire

This morning I left my ipod touch 8gb 2nd Gen on charge hooked up to my imac through the official usb cable directly into the rear usb port on the imac. After 20 mins I noticed a burning smell and discovered my ipod touch was smoking away on my desk! It was very hot and had burnt a very expensive wooden desk. The usb cable is all brown and melted on the ipod end too. The mac is fine but it had a message that a device was taking too much power from the usb. It's not jailbroken or modified either.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I bought it from Argos 2 months ago. Do I take it back to them or the Apple store? And what are my chances of getting it replaced?
Would love an ipad but that would be pushing it lol.
Seriously though, if I had left it on any longer it would have caught fire.

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