Most of the videos have a convenience or other type of store as their setting; since film footage is most readily available in this environment. In one case a wine store cashier is ringing up a sale, and suddenly whoosh, like a rocket shot, his left pocket bursts into a yellow flame. We see him jumping around like a kangaroo on a pogo stick. Several other videos are almost duplicates of the first.
Men stumbling around with their pants on fire, and slamming their palms against their crotches in a desperate attempt to extinguish the fire; which looks for all the world like a giant 4th of July sparkler.
A reporter explains that the presence of more than one e-battery in the same pocket, or metal objects such as coins contribute to these unexpected explosions, and “the rocket in their pocket.” (my words).
Now the television journalist visits the hospital room of one of the survivors of one of these self-inflicted rocket attacks.
“Are these the pants you were wearing?”
(And he holds up a pair of jeans with a conspicuous black hole in the upper thigh).
“Yes. I hope the battery manufacturers will investigate this problem, and place a cautionary statement about this situation on the packaging.”
My only commentary on the subject is,
by William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from (Mc)Donald's Daily Diary. Vol. 83. Copyright pending
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