Batteries pack a lot of energy into a small volume. And, we are continually trying to increase how much energy we can store per unit volume.
Poor kid... not a case of “mother knew best.” Glad he’s OK.
Just a tiny battery, too. THink of how much more energy is in automotive EV battery, comparable to a tank of gasoline.
Regulated mods are the way to go. Mechanical mods have no safeties. People should know the difference.
Well damn, just damn.
I do feel sorry for the kid.
I don’t think many of us really give any thought to the potential risks of batteries.
This guy does awesome and hilarious e-cig reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/user/vapel1fe
He may end up the lucky one as he probably will now, probably not try these dangerous and potentially addicting devices again.
Something is very wrong here. The description of the wound here does not comport with what I am seeing in the 3D-tomography of the jaw wound and what I know of the way e-cigarettes are constructed.
The e-cigarettes have a mouthpieces connected to a tank like container with the juice, either a nicotine containing flavored, or non-nicotine flavored, vegetable glycerin or propolyn glycol. The battery is NOT close to the face.
Here is a typical commercial e-cigarette design:
As you can see the Lithium Ion battery is actually several inches from the lips and jaw. . . and nothing explosive should be anywhere close to the face.
The damage shown, and the wounds described, indicate to me that the teenage had something else in his mouth, perhaps the battery itself, not the mouthpiece. The jaw damage just is NOT accountable to a Lithium Ion batter explosion (they really do not explode, they burst into flame). The force required to break a jaw, one of the strongest bones in the human body, is much more than can be accounted for by the story told here!
He is MUCH more likely to have damage to his hand if the battery exploded than to his jaw, inside his lips.
Many of these e-cigarettes are user re-loadable. Is it possible this teenager tried to load this e-cigarette with something NOT suitable for vaping, that might itself be explosive? I think that is a distinct possibility.
My BS-o-meter is pegged and bent around the stop!
see, illegal for teenagers to buy cigarettes but not prohibited to smoke them.
see, illegal for teenagers to buy cigarettes but not prohibited to smoke them.
Again, the battery is inches away from the lips and jaw. Something else happened than what was described as the initiating event. Glycol and Glycerin are not explosive and are normally used as food additives.
I am wondering if he wasn’t trying to vape alcohol, but even that should not have split his jaw and shattered his teeth. Burned his lips and mouth, yeah, that I can see, but splitting the jaw? What could do that? One thing might be holding a high powered gun too close and getting hit by the recoil when he fired it.
Why were the upper incisors broken? They are certainly weaker teeth than the jaw below? If he were gripping the mouthpiece of the e-cigarette with both upper and lower teeth, then certainly both should have been broken. Why was the force transmitted only downward? Strange.
Ouch!
I can’t believe he wasn’t air lifted with that serious an injury. Horrific.
Without reading the whole article (like a true Freeper) any mention that it is illegal to vape at 17?
This has happened a lot of times so far. How about they use a regular Ni-cad. So what if they have to be charged more. The trade is worth it.
Outlaw assault batteries...
Cue the 007 skunk works, exploding battery cigarettes from Gold Finger!
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
For the love of all that is decent - we have all these TV commercials about people who are horribly sick and dying from cancer presumably caused by cigarettes. But people still “light up”
I wonder how many times this 17 year old has used these things to have one blow-up in his face.
Darwin Award material. (and I know that I sound mean and soulless, but some days I can’t keep it all in)
All three pointed to the same point of impact exactly where I said it had hit, below the gum line directly on the mandible. Our top doc, who is forensically trained and has testified in many court cases (although he’d spend a lot more time studying a case for such testimony), even pointed out that he saw the pattern of a rectangular object, similar and consistent to an e-cigarette, or pipe stem, mouthpiece, horizontally imprinted in the bone in the impact zone.
All three said they had seen damage similar to that from FALLS where something in the mouth had struck the ground or something on the ground had impacted the face. No burns of any consequence meant the e-cigarette had not caused the damage. One doctor had experience with patients who had had e-cigarettes that burst into flames. These patients all had burns on hands and on their faces, but, he said, they had no internal oral damage.
Not a single one of the three doctors could see any way a Lithium Ion battery could “explode” with enough force to break a mandible. Our senior doctor had been an engineer before becoming a doctor. He said the amount of force is only consistent with a fall or being struck by some massive force. He suggested a bicycle accident with the e-cigarette in the kids mouth, which would account for it moving down below the lip line.