Mythopoeika
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Man Bites Phone Battery, Exploding Battery Wins
This just in: Phone batteries are not for biting.
That's a hard-learned lesson for a man who visited a Chinese electronic store shopping for a replacement battery and decided to apply his own technologically unsound method for verifying the batteries authenticity. He placed the battery into his mouth and bit down. The result? Pop goes the battery.
The footage, captured by the store's closed circuit TV, has been uploaded to Chinese video sharing site miaopai.com, as usually happens when there's footage of someone risking life and limb.
The Taiwan News reports that no one was injured in the resulting blast ...
I have no idea what this guy thought he was doing. At least no one was hurt ...
A second later and it would be a lot easier to floss. How hard did he bite to be able to pierce the casing?
Perhaps he can sense the electricity with his teeth, or somebody told him he could.I'm not sure he would have had to breach the casing to cause a short or chemical reaction inside the battery.
I'm still wondering how biting a battery is supposed to yield a clue to its authenticity(?).
A self-filmed video of a man who was hit by an Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS) train in Hyderabad, India, has been viewed thousands of times online.
Gym trainer T Siva ignored warnings from a person nearby and the train driver while filming near Borabanda railway station on 21 January.
Mr Siva survived but has suffered head injuries, according to South Central Railways Police.
He has appeared in court and been fined 500 rupees ($7.87, £5.50).
It's like those people don't have eyes.Go to 1:25 for the pure stuff.
In some cases my guess is that the eyes of the drivers, and most of their attention, is on their mobile phones. There are some real shockers, virtually all of which are driver error in some form or other - steaming through a red light at a crossroads, what could possibly go wrong? I only saw one example of happenstance, when a car's windscreen was broken by a falling tree bough or similar. Other than that it was driver not paying attention, not driving to the conditions - it's wet, slow down! - etc etc.It's like those people don't have eyes.
This is a blog posting about a beach we visited on Iceland's south coast.
The first video in that article is not for the easily discombobulated.
I have a couple of friends in Iceland at the moment. I have linked them to the article.
I love the typically Australian responses to most of those incidents, but my favourite has to be the girl who witnesses the idiot motorcyclist (begins at 5:00 on that video). Priceless!Go to 1:25 for the pure stuff.
Did you notice that the video is of a British incident? It happened in Cornwall, not Iceland. Surprised me!
We saw people wave-dodging and posing for photos right beside the waves. I'll look for a photo.
I would hope that I could manage to understand guide instructions or warning signs but I can kind of understand what the problem is here as those are some seriously hardcore waves.
"Stay far away from the waves"
"Okay I will admire them from a distance"
*stands like, really far away*
WhoooooOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
No, I didn't. I've been misled by the internet. Something should be done!
The general consensus that has emerged here over the last few years is that we don't mock the appearance of non-public figures and generally restrain from mocking even the more public ones until they say something really bloody stupid.
Your post seems below the belt to me, but this is no 'safe-place' and it's your call.