Shopping for a new
, replace parts or have the device repaired, is never an easy process. Contracts are needlessly complicated, things need to be ordered in and the person at the desk doesn't always know what you're talking about. But we can all feel a little lucky today that none of our own experiences ended with an explosion.
Filmed in an electronics store in Bei Jing Dong Lu, within Nanjing City, China, the CCTV footage captures the shocking moment that a man bit into a
, only to see it explode right in front of his face.
The original video was uploaded to Miaopai, a Chinese video sharing platform similar to the now-defunct Vine, where it amassed nearly 5 million views. The man was shopping for a new battery in the electronics store in the Jiangsu Province on January 19 when the spectacle occurred, leaving many wondering what the hell he was thinking.
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According to local sources, the man was simply testing whether the battery was fake or not before it burst into flames. I'm not sure if that's a legitimate way of testing counterfeit goods or not, but I'm definitely not going to try it after seeing this.
Fortunately, despite how close the blast was to his head, no one at the scene was injured - though I imagine they were probably feeling a little on edge after the bright flash. Hopefully this was a problem with a fake battery and not something that can possibly happen with other batteries, although there have been
with smartphones in the past.
