[Zhang Fei]

I’ve gotten battery acid over myself, but it wasn’t an earth-shaking, permanently disfiguring experience. I washed it off and can’t say I felt any permanent effects, other than skin that was a little dry. The guy’s a bit of a dipstick, but I’d say misdemeanor at best. Here’s an interwebs account of a similar exposure:

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[class 12 picnic it was! I was carrying the battery alone. as it was heavy i tried adjusting its weight and that effort made the acid came out from the battery and all of a sudden my whole new denim jeans was spilled by the battery acid. For the first time it looked like normal drinking water bcoz it didn’t had any impact on my jeans rather than making it wet. Unfortunately all my skepticism was lost on the 3rd day of the incident. When my jeans started to tear from all over the area. yes i couldn’t wear that jeans again.

Yes battery acid didn’t have any impact on the skin though it can damage your clothes.]

[Meatspace]

Maybe the perp did not want to do acid.

[Chainmail]

While I was serving as an artilleryman in Vietnam, we Marines still had the older cotton sateen utilities (fatigues, in army) and we had seen the new lighter weight Jungle Utilities on soldiers in Danang and we really craved having a set for ourselves.

Somehow, I managed to get a set of my own and they were cool and comfortable. Then while we’re conducting PMs on our gun section truck, its battery exploded and it doused me with battery acid.

The next second I’m standing there in my underwear and boots and my brand-new Jungle Utes were completely gone! The acid didn’t hurt me more than a mild sunburn but all I had left of my prized and hard-won uniform was a few green fragments.