It was probably celebrating the RIAA $220,000 win against the mother they claimed illegally used downloaded music.* It just burst into flame out of happy-happy, joy-joy.





*

Was it a Sony battery?

Eh, they're cool. If I buy one and it blows up, I guess the joke's on me... but... I really have a hard time remotely considering those to be unsafe. Just my thinking.

LMAO @ pants on fire.

Also, I opened the video of that lady. And underneath it was thios advertisement:

"Refinance at 5.125% Fixed

Get $200,000 loan for $854/month. Calculate Your New Payment. Act Now!

Refinance.LoanOffer.com"

Hahahahahahahaha

"Liar, liar, pants on fire."

What if he was filling his petrol tank when it happned? Bummer.

Stein said:
What if he was flying at 35,000 ft when it happened?

Major bummer.

He would probably put it out, and the plane would maybe make an emergency landing. Maybe the oxygen masks would come out, too. Maybe. Unless he happed to be pressing it against his seat window, I'm pretty sure... nothing would happen, apart from mild panic during the iPod's initial explosion... but then they would stop and chuckle about it.

I don't believe it.

Sounds fake.

Brendan Gonsalves said:
Watch the video I posted in my last post, he shows his iPod that is exploded.

I watched it. That guy was probably trying to get attention.

People are really stupid nowadays. They will do anything to get on T.V.

Kinda sad really.

Hmm. Maybe because it isn't a common problem, you f@$#ing moron.

God.

DAMN. I hate people like that -- it's just like the bridge that collapsed a few weeks ago. Sad, yes, but does every damn bridge in America need an inspection? Apparently, after one random bridge kicks the bucket. Thanks, the media!

Each lithium battery pack used in a small device such as an iPod or cell phone is supposed to have a protection circuit built in to it.

Cut-rate manufacturers in some parts of the world have at times been reported to either use a poor quality circuit or fail to include a functional circuit.

In addition, these protection circuits can fail.

Unprotected lithium cells, including relatively low capacity cells, can indeed heat to very high temps and explode violently, esp when shorted out.

Given the reported quality problems with laptop battery packs, something like this eventually appearing in another product was not unexpected.

Only an investigation and reporting will tell us whether or not this particular incident was staged.


BTW, I can easily use a charged cell-phone and some dry cloth or papter to start a fire. There is more than enough energy in the cell to do that.