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.
NOW they tell me...
I just lick it.
Why? Works just fine with coins and pearls?
Just a pinch between muh cheek and gum.. and ... waa laaa.. Look ma, no teeth.
If it won't bite me first.
Please don’t hit your face with an ax.
Please don’t stick a wolverine in your shorts.
YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
Darwin is also at work in China.
NOW you tell me!
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.........
Common Sense isn’t so common anymore.
IF it blows up then it’s genuine? Or vice versa?
Article doesn’t say.
(asking for a friend)
Sorry.
Wolverines should probably come with a warning label.
I use them as the bread in a Tide detergent pod sandwich.
Hey, I have finally found a job that Americans will not do!
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.
Something tells me that job has a high turnover rate.
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