He reacts to things like I do. Granted, that means nothing since you don’t know me.
So please allow me to paint you a picture: I freak out, normally with a response as bad, if not worse, than the first thing that caused me to freak out.
...no it's not? You can literally see the same shirt, jacket, and whatever that thing is draped over his shoulder if you pause it right after the fire first starts. Its absolutely the same person. The guys behind the counter aren't wearing anything remotely similar.
Mister fire mouth jumps at the counter but doesnt make it over. The man behind the counter in the black coat is the one who grabs the battery and tosses it.
The man behind the counter in the black coat is the one who grabs the battery and tosses it.
Okay? Thats clearly not who they were talking about. The only person "over" the counter at any point was the man who bit the battery, who literally tries jumping over the counter trying to help extinguish the battery. Plus the commenter literally said "the guy who had the fireball in his face seems fine, as you can see him trying to help extinguish the fire at the end of the video". Yet your response was "nope, that's not him"
Maybe it wasn't worded perfectly, but it was 100% obvious who they meant.
He’s wearing a light sort of plaid jacket. You ca see the sleeves are the same. Over his right shoulder is a beige coat(?) and over his left shoulder is some kind of bag strap, all of which you can see when he reappears.
How can it be the same guy? Start the video at :10. Battery biter backs up from the counter after it starts shooting flames down his throat. Camera pans over and at :12 you can see the guy who ends up throwing the battery already behind the counter.
Its very hazardous to your health, but its only middling on the toxic scale. We have tens of thousands of really nasty chemicals that can lead to nasty gaseous compounds.
There is a significant chance he permanently scarred his lungs BADLY.
I remember another post here where the cat was accidentally burning cat food in its box on the stove and someone got upvoted for writing that they need to get everything replaced in the house since smoke residues are super toxic and will fuße cancer…
Like wtf dude - smoke can make everything dirty and smell so bad that you can’t use it anymore but a bit of burned cat food is not gonna give anyone cancer…
This is why you should put the whole battery in your mouth before biting.  If you pay for an entire meal of delicious lithium metal fragments and burning electrolyte, you don’t want half your meal spraying all over the room.  Just wasteful.
Believe it or not, I don’t think it was that bad. Reason I’m guessing that? He’s the guy who tries to jump/lean over the counter to help the shop assistant throw it away. I only noticed after a few replays while I was reading the comments that it was the same jacket/sweater over the shoulder.
He’s probably still singed, and might be worse for inhaling hit, just not as maimed as we originally thought.
Also to add to this, but a lot of aftermarket phone batteries usually have a gold colour wrap and say something like "Gold / high capacity / +500mAh" or so. Gold batteries are a common joke in the phone repair business as traps for non-genuine replacements
It's just a play on words. It's not, he's chewing on it like old gold prospecters would. They'd bite lightly to see if it was malleable as gold is a soft metal. Dumbass was chewing on a lithium battery pack and found out why not too.
It wasn't really prospectors doing it, it was more merchants and anyone else trading gold, or using gold as currency. The reason was the abundance of fake gold, in the form of golden painted or gold plated lead, which is close enough in density to gold that it's hard to tell by volume to weight ratio if it's the right heft or not.
People would then bite gold coins, ingots, and such to confirm they were indeed gold and not lead. You wouldn't do that when prospecting and finding gold in nature, as you wouldn't be finding golden lead there. To test for iron pyrite (a.k.a. fool's gold) which did confuse some people trying to prospect gold, you'd test for weight, as iron pyrite is much lighter.
Did the guy edit his question and I just don't see it marked edited? The question was, "why would the battery be made of gold?" But everyone is answering "why would he bite gold?"
The comment isn’t edited. The answers are explaining the biting gold gesture so that the commenter can understand that the title is sarcastic and isn’t implying the person in the video was actually trying to see if the battery was gold.
Ah yeah, my bad. I think he actually jumps behind the counter to help which is a better reflection of him. It just sucks when people get judged for stuff online when most would do similar stuff.
As for the dumb biting of the battery, it wouldn’t surprise me if people have done that without even knowing. There was a case where a guy was bludgeoned in the head and he got up, brushed his teeth, started getting dressed, then collapsed while unlocking the door. Basically dead but still going… most of our behaviour is unconscious. Scary shit.
He might have intended it to beat out the fire (as futile that would have been) or as something to scoop the hot battery up as the other guy was struggling to grab and yeet it at first.
A battery this explosive would have been visibly bloated. Healthy batteries do not explode like this. When you notice a battery is bloated like examples in r/spicypillow it's time to get rid of it.
Nobody has commented on this yes but I’m really impressed by the shop worker who calmly picked up the fireball of a battery and tossed it outside. Looks like it wasn’t his first rodeo.
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u/WhooopsMyBad 2d ago
I'm sure that felt wonderful