A man decided he needed to verify if a smartphone battery was original, so he bit it. The battery blew up in his face.
Security camera footage captured January 19 at a store in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province of China shows the unidentified man biting into the iPhone battery, presumably to check its authenticity.
The move quickly proved to be a mistake, as the battery exploded. Amazingly, the man wasn’t seriously hurt in the blast.
Taiwan News noted that it’s common for people in China to test the authenticity of gold by biting it, which led Apple Insider to speculate the man somehow thought he could test the authenticity of the battery using the same technique.
On the rare occasions when a phone explodes, it’s often because the “positive” and “negative” battery plates have become joined, such as if the battery was pierced by a metal object, experts say.
They point out that lithium-ion batteries, though considered very safe, can explode if they’re overcharged.
It’s a problem associated with knock-off battery chargers and other dubious third-party accessories that are rampant in China, which may have explained why the man was biting the battery in the first place.
Source: (Yahoo News)
