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Re: Last Laugh! Re: Exploding Lithium-Ion Battery Started House Fire

Rick Merrill (rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com)
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:44:09 -0400

Mark J wrote:

> I almost had my pants catch fire when I swapped out a battery on a
> smoke detector and dropped the old one in my pants pocket. A few minutes
> later I felt something hot in my pocket and I reached in and found the 9v
> battery had shorted on some change in my pocket.

> Even batteries that may be 'dead' can still have the potential to do
> harm if they overheat.

> Hudson Leighton <hudsonl@skypoint.com> wrote in message
> news:telecom25.261.5@telecom-digest.org:

>> In article <telecom25.258.1@telecom-digest.org>, Mike Hughlett
>> <chitrib@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

>>> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607130182jul13,1,1195700.story?page=2&coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

>>> By Mike Hughlett
>>> Tribune staff reporter

>>> July 13, 2006

>>> It has the ring of an urban legend: A cell phone blows up and sets
>>> fire to a house.

>>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: For those people inclined to think that
>>> a fire caused by an exploding battery is 'just another urban legend'
>>> which never has any verifiable source to it, here is an instance where
>>> proof is available: Chicago Tribune, July 13, 2006 Section B, with a
>>> real person named. PAT]

>> There was a recent incident where a Dell laptop went up in flames
>> at a conference in Asia.

>> It's amazing how hot a 9 volt transistor battery gets when it
>> contacts the loose change in your pocket.

>> Energy = Energy
>> Uncontrolled Energy = Bomb

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, Mister Hot-Pants-a-Fire, I presume
> there was no damage of any sort to your essential parts down there;
> you did not have to call the Fire Department to put it out, did you?
> I know ... its not funny ... but it _is_ funny! PAT]

What department do you call to "pat it out"?

;-)

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