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Friendly Reminder: Please Don't Bite Your Phone Battery
CNET ^ | JANUARY 23, 2018 | CHRIS MATYSZCZYK\

Posted on 01/24/2018 11:42:53 AM PST by nickcarraway

Commentary: In a video posted online, a customer reportedly wants to check if a new battery is authentic -- using his teeth. Cue explosion.

Some things might seem obvious.

But even these things are worth mentioning occasionally.

Please, therefore, allow me to say these words: Don't bite your phone battery.

I base this apparently absurd entreaty on a video that's making its way around the web.

It appears to show someone in a Chinese electronics store.

As the Taiwan News reports, the customer was looking for a replacement battery for his phone last Friday.

The news outlet insists that the action dimly portrayed here is the customer testing the authenticity of a replacement battery by biting it.

A puported store video posted online shows an explosive denouement.

There's no way of knowing what really went on here. Or even if anything authentic did.

Who can forget the video that seemed to show music producer and performer CeeLo Green being injured by an exploding phone but that turned out to be nothing more than a bit of publicity?

Here, we have no idea what sort of battery it might have been, or whether it was a battery at all.

However, the clip does still serve as a reminder that meetings between electronic devices and the mouth might be best restricted to, oh, electric toothbrushes. Or, perhaps, electronic wind instruments.

The Taiwan News reports that no one was hurt, though a woman standing near the man certainly seems dazed. I very much hope the news is accurate.

Phone batteries, just like hoverboard batteries, are lithium ion and therefore notoriously unpredictable.

Sometimes, they do explode. Sometimes, they explode so much that the product has to be taken off the market, as happened with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Twice.

In general, it's worth treating all batteries in electronics with caution.

And please, please, don't attempt to copy what this video purportedly portrays.

It's bad enough hearing the sad tales associated with people eating Tide Pods.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: battery; bit; cheese; moose; phone; sister
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1 posted on 01/24/2018 11:42:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

NOW they tell me...


2 posted on 01/24/2018 11:44:55 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: nickcarraway

I just lick it.


3 posted on 01/24/2018 11:47:01 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why? Works just fine with coins and pearls?


4 posted on 01/24/2018 11:48:57 AM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: nickcarraway

Just a pinch between muh cheek and gum.. and ... waa laaa.. Look ma, no teeth.


5 posted on 01/24/2018 11:50:15 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
OK.

If it won't bite me first.

6 posted on 01/24/2018 11:50:30 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: nickcarraway

Please don’t hit your face with an ax.


7 posted on 01/24/2018 11:51:19 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nickcarraway

Please don’t stick a wolverine in your shorts.


8 posted on 01/24/2018 11:52:34 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: nickcarraway

YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!


9 posted on 01/24/2018 11:52:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: nickcarraway

Darwin is also at work in China.


10 posted on 01/24/2018 11:53:58 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: blueunicorn6
Please don’t stick a wolverine in your shorts.

NOW you tell me!

11 posted on 01/24/2018 11:54:02 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: ClearCase_guy
Save your appetite for 'Pod Pockets


12 posted on 01/24/2018 11:55:30 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ever bitten down on a piece of tin foil with a tooth with a filling in it? It’s a one time experience you will remember forever.........


13 posted on 01/24/2018 11:55:37 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: nickcarraway

Common Sense isn’t so common anymore.


14 posted on 01/24/2018 11:56:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

IF it blows up then it’s genuine? Or vice versa?
Article doesn’t say.
(asking for a friend)


15 posted on 01/24/2018 11:57:41 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Sorry.

Wolverines should probably come with a warning label.


16 posted on 01/24/2018 12:01:34 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Cowboy Bob

I use them as the bread in a Tide detergent pod sandwich.


17 posted on 01/24/2018 12:06:38 PM PST by glorgau
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To: blueunicorn6
Sewing warning labels on wolverines.

Hey, I have finally found a job that Americans will not do!

18 posted on 01/24/2018 12:13:46 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: nickcarraway

I used to lick 9V batteries when I was a kid. The free carbon batteries from Radio Shack’s “Battery of the Month” club wasn’t good for much else.


19 posted on 01/24/2018 12:34:08 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Sewing warning labels on wolverines. Hey, I have finally found a job that Americans will not do!

Something tells me that job has a high turnover rate.

20 posted on 01/24/2018 12:40:38 PM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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