Cellphone battery sets man on fire
A cellphone battery spontaneously burst into flames at a prominent hacking meet-up, setting a man’s pants on fire.
The Defcon attendee said that he started to smell something burning, before noting that his left back left pocket was on fire.
“I smelled the burn, the smoke, and I stood up and could literally see flames,” he said. “I tried to tap it out (with a hand) and it fell to the floor. It burned right through the backside.”
Luckily, the man’s posterior was saved from burns thanks to his plastic hotel key-card which was between him and the battery.
“My hotel key saved my butt,” he said.
A witness recalled the traumatic, yet exciting event: “I saw something glowing out of the corner of my eye,” she said. “A guy’s butt was in flames.”
The battery was said to belong to a Motorola Droid Bionic smartphone.
The cellphone battery burned through the man’s pants
The phone burnt the carpet floor of the expo hall
Source: Cnet
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