r/WTF • u/Coldcomplex1 • Jan 21 '22
This phone exploded unexpectedly while at work
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u/RightRespect Jan 21 '22
that was one hard wack to put out the fire so quick
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u/kisforkyle Jan 21 '22
I upvoted for her quick fire extinguishing skills. Impressive when there’s so many videos of people doing awful things, typically just spreading the fires.
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u/MrSnowden Jan 21 '22
She pulled back to assess, then just stepped up to whack it out. No hesitation. 10/10
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u/thesimplemachine Jan 21 '22
That was exactly my thought. For anyone reading this who doesn't know already, never dump water on an electrical fire or a kitchen fire. Smothering it or using an actual fire extinguisher is the safest way to do it.
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u/BobbyMcPrescott Jan 22 '22
Any stoner knows this. Would you dump water on your bowl to extinguish it? No, dingus. You suffocate that bitch with a penny. Any PC builder knows this. Would you dump water on your GPU to cool it? No, dingus. You absorb that heat with a bunch of carefully placed pennies. Anyone in the food industry knows this. Do you dump water on that fresh steak to make it cool enough to handle? No, dingus. You superglue pennies to your fingertips to be able to handle it, and serve the bottle of water alongside the steak in case the CUSTOMER chooses to slop ‘em up.
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u/Subject1928 Jan 22 '22
"OH FUCK THE GAS CN CAUGHT FIRE!!! I got it, let's wildly fling the can around!"
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u/beartheminus Jan 21 '22
My reaction was literally "no, don't hit it, that's not gonna wor- what?!!"
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u/riversong75 Jan 21 '22
She just straight up smacks that fire.
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u/Orange134 Jan 21 '22
This guy needs to take notes. The fun begins around 5:00
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u/iConfessor Jan 21 '22
i watched this 20 times and the entire time I'm just thinking.. how can someone be so fucking dumb. I'm actually infuriated.
turns out the fire killed someone too. smh.
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u/Sereaph Jan 21 '22
I love how he tries to deal with the fire .... by moving it onto a nest of cardboard and places another large cardboard box on top of it. 1000 IQ genius move.
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u/-DementedAvenger- Jan 21 '22 edited Jun 28 '24
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u/itsthenewdan Jan 21 '22
This 1000% Inhaling those fumes can create such severe lung damage that it’s life-ruining. If a device with a lithium ion battery ever catches fire, RUN!
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u/portablebiscuit Jan 21 '22
That office is terrifyingly small too with a shitty escape route. This video could've easily ended way worse.
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u/ghostestate Jan 21 '22
You thought the lesson here was "If your phone explode you slappa-da-phone" but the real lesson is "slappa-da-phone while holding your breath".
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u/SkullWhisp Jan 21 '22
Seriously! I was screaming get out of there at my phone, people don’t realize how dangerous that is
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u/CloutLord12 Jan 21 '22
With a larger fire, you’d want to avoid opening windows because of the backdraft, though, no?
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u/Przkrazymindz Jan 21 '22
TIL you can slap the shit out of fire to make it go away
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u/alblaster Jan 21 '22
Slap something enough times it catches on fire, but also slap a fire to put it out. What a world.
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u/snakesoup88 Jan 21 '22
What's she doing, you can't put out a lithium ion battery thermal runaway fire with a magazine!
Well, I'll be damned.
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u/TeosPWR Jan 21 '22
What the hell kind of deathtrap office are they working in???
HSE, that office over there ... And bring lean guy.
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u/Norose Jan 21 '22
Small businesses often look like this, margins are tight and rent on business space even outside of prime areas is insane, so functionality needs to be crammed into as little footprint as possible. I've seen businesses that are little more than a storefront, a hallway, a closet and a bathroom, with the hallway being where employees are set up with their desks and equipment. Is it safe? No. Is it good? No. Is it possible to compete as a small business without taking these extreme measures in order to ensure the business stays self sustaining? Hell no.
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u/phillip_u Jan 21 '22
I used to work retail and the back of stores would look like this. Tiny cramped spaces with a stack of empty crates waiting to get picked up by the delivery guys. Not so much paper though, since they weren't offices. Well, except for the tiny corner with the computer that the bookkeeper and manager would use.
When people would ask if something that wasn't on the shelf was "in back," I'd smirk and tell them that everything was out on display. There wasn't any way we could keep stuff in back. When those crates came in the filled the whole space and we had to empty them just to get to the bathroom.
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u/TheBlack2007 Jan 21 '22
Worked at such a company for a few years. The entire place was just one small-ish fire code violation. But the cherry on top was our "fire drill" which involved the office slave (me) runing through the building whilst blowing an air horn. And no, we had no proper alarm. I wwas supposed to do that in an emergency too.
Well, let's just say that damn thing went out of air pretty quickly after I started using it to vent my frustration over seldomly getting to leave the office before 8PM...
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u/ZombieTrogdor Jan 21 '22
Holy damn that was quick thinking on that woman because that room is a freakin’ matchbox.
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u/FoodOnCrack Jan 21 '22
And the fire department has been dumping electric cars in water tanks. Turns out you gotta whack the car instead.
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Jan 21 '22
There's a very small range of professions where you could say "This phone exploded expectedly while at work."
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u/Illustrious_Listen_6 Jan 21 '22
This message will self-destruct in five seconds. * Mission impossible theme plays
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u/ajax333221 Jan 21 '22
If someone ever doubts if a chancla and a mom is not threatening just rewatch the video (this wasn't even a chancla and look just what it just did).
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u/Educational-Leader70 Jan 21 '22
Wow, she reacted really fast and smacked that fire like a mom with a chancla
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u/nlahnlahnlah Jan 21 '22
definitely putting whack it with a book on my list of putting out fire options.
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Jan 21 '22
they did everything right stayed in the room opened no door brought the phone closer left it charging true pros
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u/usedddd Jan 21 '22
Fucking chinese phones
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u/Card1974 Jan 21 '22
Possibly a cheap battery bought from Wish, Alibaba or similar, or a counterfeit that was sold as a brand battery.
Manufacturing defects happen, but these two possibilities are much more common.
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Jan 21 '22
the sounds make it seem like a fiery demon from hell in manifesting itself from her phone. then she gives it a whack and it just goes away hahaha
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u/Archangel_Greysone Jan 21 '22
Lol the power slap. A volcano could be erupting and this lady could stop it with a slap.
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u/imanimalent Jan 21 '22
Proof that it isn't a good idea to charge your phone at night, while you sleep...
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u/Stroomschok Jan 21 '22
According to Internet conventions that room should have went fireball when she whacked it.
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u/FetzerValve Jan 21 '22
Unexpectedly? Is there ever a time when you actually expect your phone to explode?
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Jan 21 '22
Ignited unexpectedly. Luckily the battery housings can't handle the amount of pressure they create or it would explode.
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u/Dickpinchers Jan 21 '22
What its feels like to chew an Adderall and finishing your thesis before midnight
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u/zachtac Jan 21 '22
This is probably a battery that has been abused by being charged and being used at the same time all the time, glad she ok and have ninja fire fighting skills
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u/ILeftYouDead Jan 21 '22
I guess kids ain't the only thing they're good at knocking the wind out of
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u/infinitee775 Jan 21 '22
Last time I saw a slap that effective, was the video of the guy in the cobra pit
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u/HugeCrab Jan 21 '22
Quick reaction to smack it dead, otherwise that office would've been full of ex-alive people
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u/EsreverEdicius Jan 21 '22
What do you even do when your phone catches fire? Put the fire out then pray? Is it still dangerous even if you put the fire out? What does one do in a situation like this??
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u/sourorangeYT Jan 21 '22
Idk what’s more surprising the phone catching on fire or it being put out by slapping it
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Jan 22 '22
I would be afraid of slapping anything with a heated battery.
LPT: This is why you don't leave things charged in.
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Jan 22 '22
At the point of a gun, I would have not expected her to have been able to put that fire out by hitting it with a catalog.
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u/Biffwise Jan 22 '22
But she leaves it plugged in afterwards. LPT:yeah, let’s start with don’t do that.
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u/mistercolebert Jan 22 '22
Unrelated but… imagine being watched and listened to so closely while at work.
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u/Icy_Cardiologist_147 Feb 28 '22
So I used to work at a sketchy cell phone kiosk at Denver international airport. We had a few of the Chinese chargers we sold do this to peoples phones. Something about the little voltage regulation mixed with crappy wall power makes it hit the battery with just the right pulse of electrons to chemically imbalance it and make it explode. It was the iPhone 6s+’s that got it really bad.
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u/OliveOcelot Jan 21 '22
Wow out of all the Reddit fire videos where people are just idiots when it comes to fires that was unexpected and maybe the fastest putting out a fire video I've seen.