Oct 06 2007

Geeks of the world beware… iPod catches fire in pants

Some more stuff by billymac at 6:18 am under cool, funny, scary

I couldn’t help but laugh at this one, apparently a gentlemen’s iPod nano burst into flame while in the front pocket of his pants.  The iPod battery is the “smoking gun” in this case, as it uses a lithium-ion battery (li-ion), the same culprit in the mysteriously combustible laptops of late.  The iPod flamer works at the Hartsfield-Jackson International airport in Atlanta and the best quote from this story is “if the TSA came by and saw me smoking, they could have thought I was a terrorist”.  Sure buddy, most terrorists walk around the concourse on fire.  Click here for full story.

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  1. # Apple Ipod, Ipod Nano and Ipod Video News » Geeks of the world beware… iPod catches fire i…on 06 Oct 2007 at 7:07 am

    […] And Rightly So! wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt I couldn’t help but laugh at this one, apparently a gentlemen’s iPod nano burst into flame while in the front pocket of his pants.  The iPod battery is the “smoking gun” in this case, as it uses a lithium-ion battery (li-ion), the same culprit in the mysteriously combustible laptops of late.  The iPod flamer works Posted in Total Diatribe ( 3 links from 2 sites) […]

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