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Woman’s Headphones Explode After She Falls Asleep on Flight to Australia
Tribune Media Wire ^
| 3/15/2017
| Staff
Posted on 03/15/2017 8:28:42 AM PDT by simpson96
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:28:42 AM PDT
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simpson96
To: simpson96
To: simpson96
What brand/model of headphones was it?
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:33:07 AM PDT
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TXnMA
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
To: simpson96
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:33:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: simpson96
I’ve wondered about the safety of those cheap Chinese bluetooth headsets.
Those batteries are a safety hazard, they can burn your house down.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:37:11 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
( Healthcare - someone must pay. Who should it be, and how did they get that obligation?)
To: simpson96
Battery/short circuit/ audio amp failure.
Speakers and headphones (including earbuds) are designed to handle milliwatts of AC signal power, and have a low DC resistance.
Dumping the power of the Li-ion battery of a phone into them will make them light up like a lightbulb.
Think of a vape pen, except stuck in your ear.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:37:23 AM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Back in Black(face)? TNT? Dirty deeds Done to Me?
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:38:04 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Listening to AC/DC?
I would have hoped you'd have more class than this.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:38:12 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: Bobalu
I use headphones with my ipad all the time. I don’t mind the plug in. To me its just easier to plug them in than it is to charge something else. I have chargeable speakers that I never use because its easier to just plug in my headphones.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:42:15 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: righttackle44
I would have hoped you'd have more class than this.
??????
To: Buckeye McFrog
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:48:31 AM PDT
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BipolarBob
(I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
To: simpson96
She didn’t feel like washing her face?
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:49:21 AM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: simpson96
Headline: “explode”
Article: “on fire”
Which is it? Another headline that is designed to make us read the article, which then contradicts the headline.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
To: simpson96
"bucket of water"Nice. At least they didn't pour it on her while it was on her head. "Would you like some shock therapy with your coffee?"
Also, had this been a smoking flight, the smell of electronics and hair would've been covered up.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:51:02 AM PDT
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fruser1
To: simpson96
From the original source,
The Sydney Morning Herald:
The woman, whose identity has been concealed by the ATSB, said she was listening to music on a pair of battery-operated headphones when she fell asleep about two hours into the flight. She woke to a loud explosion.
...
"The ATSB has assessed that it is the batteries, as the power source, that caught on fire and are therefore the issue... All batteries contain stored energy and are therefore potentially risky."
So it was the battery source, not the headphones themselves, that exploded? It looks like from the photos that she had the power source near her face.
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posted on
03/15/2017 8:51:13 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
To: TXnMA
What brand... You would think that would be a question a journalist would ask.... but no... and all they manage to do is mention an unrelated product "The incident follows Samsungs recall of the Galaxy Note7".
To: Buckeye McFrog
#2 That is funny!
I bet it was not the Carpenters.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/15/2017 9:18:07 AM PDT
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Uncle Miltie
(The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
To: fruser1
Nice. At least they didn't pour it on her while it was on her head. "Would you like some shock therapy with your coffee?" Also, had this been a smoking flight, the smell of electronics and hair would've been covered up. Stewardess: "Ok, everyone, if you have cigarettes with you, LIGHT UP. That is an order from the Captain."
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posted on
03/15/2017 9:22:18 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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