“Last Friday (Jan. 19), while looking for a new replacement battery for his iPhone at an electronics store in China, a man inexplicably decided to bite into one of the batteries to somehow test its authenticity, leading the device to suddenly explode in a ball of fire,” Keoni Everington reports for Taiwan News.
“Video of the bizarre incident which captured in the store’s CCTV camera was posted on the Chinese video sharing site miaopai.com on Jan. 20 and since been viewed over 4.45 million times,” Everington reports. “In the video, a man places an iPhone battery in his mouth and he proceeds to bite it, apparently to test its authenticity or durability.”
“Because his teeth likely caused a catastrophic rupture to the device’s casing, it suddenly burst into a massive ball of fire which engulfed both he and his female companion,” Everington reports. “Fortunately, news outlets report that no one was injured in the blast, but many in the store were startled by the sudden explosion.”
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MacDailyNews Take: And, the winner of this month’s Darwin Award is…
Fucking idiot
Flake news.
time for condemnation of apple and several dozen class action law suits
Apple should be required by law to:
– warn us NOT to BITE BATTERIES or expect them to last forever
– warn us not to use iPads as babysitters
– warn us not to bathe with an electronic device
– warn us that coffee may be hot
– warn us not to cross the street without looking in both directions beforehand
I mean……it’s the least they can do
Yeah, well if you need further proof that the batteries are weak… it didn’t kill him, he just walked away….!
(Of course this is fake)
It didn’t even damage him. No bloody lip or anything. Yep. Fake.
FAKED!
1:Before the bite, he’s holding a white iPhone in his left hand.
2: The ball of fire from the “bite” is NOT centered on the battery and in fact is superimposed on the screen and overlaps the person in foreground with center of fireball at least a foot away from bite.
3: When the biter turns back from recoiling from “explosion, he’s now holding a BLACK PHONE in his left hand instead of previously held white one. This is continuity error!
4: He has no burns on face or hands from exploding battery.
5: No residual smoke from explosion or resultant fire.
6: Other observers reaction too subdued and none ran away. Staged. They knew it was not terrorist attack or shooting!
7: Ergo FAKED!
FAKED!
1:Before the bite, he’s holding a white iPhone in his left hand.
2: The ball of fire from the “bite” is NOT centered on the battery and in fact is superimposed on the screen and overlaps the person in foreground with center of fireball at least a foot away from bite.
3: When the biter turns back from recoiling from “explosion, he’s now holding a BLACK PHONE in his left hand instead of previously held white one. This is continuity error!
4: He has no burns on face or hands from exploding battery.
5: No residual smoke from explosion or resultant fire.
6: Other observers reaction too subdued and none ran away. Staged. They knew it was not terrorist attack or shooting!
7: No one close to the bright flash or acrid chemicals is rubbing their eyes afterwards.
8: Ergo FAKED!
Send this guy some Tide Pods!
My goodness. Why did he bite the battery, was he hungry, he wanted to eat the battery?. He must be hungry, right?. That’s funny.
He should have had an energy bar instead.
Lol… he thought is was an energy bar ….😂
Well, technically there was energy in it.
It’s likely a test that’s common to determine if a battery is fake or not. Trust in China is really, really, really low… when it comes to buying things. Buyer beware.
He could have been arrested for assaulting the battery.
You mean……’assault an battery”??? Zing!!
I’m here all week folks
And charged to boot!
It’s the new “Tide Pod” Challenge.
The guy’s still alive. By definition, he can’t be a nominee, let alone a winner, of a Darwin award.
He does qualify for an Honourable Mention, though.
For Darwinian evolution to work he doesn‘t need to die, he just has to have an advantage or disadvantage.
Darwinian evolution and advantage/disadvantage has nothing to do with the Darwin Awards mentioned in the MDN take.
You do know what Darwin Awards are, and the basic rules of how people are nominated and win them, right?
If he had bitten the battery in a different place, the experience would have been terminal.
but he is qualified to be a democrat.
I would have taken the Hillary “low energy” angle Bot… it’s funnier.
I’ll go with Trump’s “Twitter Feed” myself.
Such polarizing figures hem two….
I meant “Twitter Blast”…
F’kin Chinese. Stupidest humans on the planet.
He didn’t look like Chinese.
Are you blind? Read the Headline. (or maybe your Chinese and cannot read english)
Well, you fucking can’t write English, either.
You’re.
Suck me…Can you read that, you loser? Actually, do us all a favor and bite your battery. It will improve your looks tremendously.
Oh, I don‘t know. Remember the woman who tried to dry her dog in the microwave and is thereby responsible for the death of millions of trees (for all the extra paper needed for the most ridiculous health and safety warnings)? Or the guy who thought it was a good idea to let his three-year old play with a loaded gun? Or the guy who went ice-fishing with dynamite and his dog … actually, that one’s an urban legend. My bad.
If you ARE interested in the Darwin Awards, have a look at thheir website http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/
These stupidest people may bite your ass pretty soon .. so better look out!
Doubtful….
Wow. They probably say that about you.
And if they don’t they should.
Bite ME (not the f’n battery)
Evolution in action.
*Devolution
Magical!
It’s fake dum dum. I see you came back a day later and posted that it was fake, after another commenter revealed that it was fake.
Magical is fake too! Dum dum…
Lame reply. Doesn’t change the fact that you got fooled by this video.
The only lame thing is this conversation and your lamest of all personal attacks. If you were an executioner it would be cruel and unusual punishment. Death by meaningless boredom.
Guy: it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: don’t do that.
. . . that will be $40
He thought it was a tide pod
Apple will be blamed for not making the iPhone bite-proof or making the the iPhone too tasty-looking. I could understand a baby or a child trying to taste an electronic device but an adult… puh-lease. This dude needs a pacifier.
I know dog bites man stories are not sensational but man bites iPhone is definitely a sensational story. I don’t care what he did as long as Apple isn’t being blamed for it.
And was…..was that……was that a look of SURPRISE on his face??? Because never in a million years would he expect that mishandling a device expressly designed to store energy would result in ….just perhaps…. a sudden and complete release of that energy………………………………….I mean what is he? A scientist?
Should have made the battery look like Tide packets. Nobody would eat those.
And what are the chances of that being an authentic Apple Battery in a Chinese open market?
Oh, hell, here come the lawsuits.
I watched the video several times and it appears to me that the flash was not in the same place as the battery, which was in the man’s hand and still fairly close to his head/body. My conclusion is that this is a poor hoax executed for publicity/profit. Even if it turns out to be a hoax, as I suspect, that is 4.5M hits and counting. That has to be worth something.
“a man inexplicably decided to bite into one of the batteries to somehow test its authenticity”
I guess it was authentic!
And the winner of the Darwin Awards is…
He didn’t die, so… disqualified.