14 DAY TRIAL // Smartphone battery explosions make the headlines every once in a while, but this is pretty much the first time one incident takes place after someone… bites the device.
As weird as that might sound, that’s literally what happened in a Chinese pawn shop, where a potential iPhone buyer decided to check if the device was real just like he wanted to test a gold coin: by biting it.
The CCTV footage shows the man checking what’s believed to be an iPhone before taking it close to his mouth, apparently to determine if it’s a clone or not. It takes just a couple of seconds before the device suffers a massive blow just next to the man’s face, with everyone around stepping away, including the woman next to the sales counter and who appears to be kind of groggy.
No injuries
While it’s pretty difficult to tell how exactly an iPhone, or any other smartphone, no matter the brand or model, can suffer such a massive explosion if the battery isn’t exposed, GizmoChina says nobody was injured following the incident. This is more or less surprising given the blow and how close the device was to the man’s face.
As for the sketchy parts of the video, it goes without saying that nobody can tell for sure that the man was A - holding and iPhone, and B – isn’t involved into some kind of prank or just wants to gain views with a fake clip.
No matter the explanation, it goes without saying that biting from a phone or a battery isn’t quite a good idea because you know, electricity might not be your tongue’s best friend.
You can watch the full incident in the video below, but given all of the above, we recommended to click play with a healthy pinch of salt because there are way too many sketchy things to take it for granted.
