Thai woman: I was nearly barbecued at 5 am!

 

Thai caption: Let that be a warning...

Picture: Daily News

 

A Thai woman went on Facebook to recount her experience after awaking in the early hours of the morning to find a power bank charging her spare phone battery was on fire at the foot of the bed. 

 

She said she had felt a warmth on her leg that alerted her causing her to wake up. 

 

"I was nearly barbecued at 5 am this morning" she said.

 

Apparently the fire was soon extinguished after she initially fled in terror.

 

She said that it was lucky that her blanket was wrapped around her and not the plug too.

 

She said that she wouldn't be charging things on the bed again. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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4 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

She said that she wouldn't be charging things on the bed again. 

Will probably be doing it in the bath next. 

Honestly, who in their right mind recharges a dangerous lithium-cell battery ON THE BED?

 

Would she also be cooking in bed, leaving the camping stove on overnight?

SHOCKING ! 

Just go and take a look in a few Rural homes in this country and when you come back out you will wonder why it is that there are not a lot more fires and electrocutions than there are.   It's got to be one of the most unsafe country's on the Planet !

10 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

Just go and take a look in a few Rural homes in this country and when you come back out you will wonder why it is that there are not a lot more fires and electrocutions than there are.   It's got to be one of the most unsafe country's on the Planet !

Whenever I'm not using an electrical device, I unplug it. When I leave home for more than 15 minutes, I unplug everything before I go and switch off current directed to the air conditioners. I probably shouldn't risk the 15 minutes.

7 minutes ago, zydeco said:

When I leave home for more than 15 minutes, I unplug everything before I go

Don't you get tired resetting the VCR,microwave and alarm clocks every time you come home ?  ????

3 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

Will probably be doing it in the bath next. 

Probably...

3 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Honestly, who in their right mind recharges a dangerous lithium-cell battery ON THE BED?

 

Would she also be cooking in bed, leaving the camping stove on overnight?

Thai people, that's who...

Edited January 17, 20206 yr by BobinBKK
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3 minutes ago, johng said:

Don't you get tired resetting the VCR,microwave and alarm clocks every time you come home ?  ????

You have a VCR?

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

And they keep on coming. This is about being stupid and charging an unsafe product on the bed. As well as it is about being lucky and not get hurt. And, you just spout a sexistic comment out of the blue????

Just slightly irrelevant, don´t you think?

Not any more relevant than it being 5:00 am in the morning, don't "YOU" think?

16 minutes ago, zydeco said:

You have a VCR?

Got rid of my last one 2 years ago...never unplugged from the day I bought it about 10 years previously.

Edited January 17, 20206 yr by johng

I wonder who she I'll try to blame? I can't wait for the follow-up story to see a photo of her pointing at someone 555555

3 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Honestly, who in their right mind recharges a dangerous lithium-cell battery ON THE BED?

Honestly, who doesn't? It doesn't have to be on a bed to catch fire either. Plenty stories of cars with burned-out interiors where phones were left charging.

 

"Honestly, who in their right mind recharges dangerous lithium-cell battery ON THE CAR SEAT?"

 

The amount of phone and phone charger related battery fires are testament to how intrinsically unsafe it is to have the average pleb in possession of a high-current source of electricity while using cheap, Chinese-made power adapters, chargers and cables when the original chargers and cables fail.

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

Whenever I'm not using an electrical device, I unplug it. When I leave home for more than 15 minutes, I unplug everything before I go and switch off current directed to the air conditioners. I probably shouldn't risk the 15 minutes.

you unplug the fridge ??

1 hour ago, BobinBKK said:

Not any more relevant than it being 5:00 am in the morning, don't "YOU" think?

As opposed to 5am in the evening?

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

Whenever I'm not using an electrical device, I unplug it. When I leave home for more than 15 minutes, I unplug everything before I go and switch off current directed to the air conditioners. I probably shouldn't risk the 15 minutes.

I do that too and its a right pain in the bottom when I forget to plug the fridge and deep freeze back in.

I'm left wondering about the purpose of the leather device in the image ....

Cannot believe that any sane person would be recharging anything, resting it on cloth and using a power board, then sleeping as well. 

 

The amulets must have been working

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

Whenever I'm not using an electrical device, I unplug it. When I leave home for more than 15 minutes, I unplug everything before I go and switch off current directed to the air conditioners. I probably shouldn't risk the 15 minutes.

Probably shouldn't risk going out, might get hit by a car/motorbike/bite by soi dog/breathe in PM2.5 etc etc etc......... ????

56 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Chinese-made power adapters, chargers and cables when the original chargers and cables fail.

Well most if not all are Chinese made, there is just different types of quality and people tend to be cheap with problems as a result.

 

Not to mention the electric wiring being poor done in TH and then having people using 7 devices on 1 outlet.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

"I was nearly barbecued at 5 am this morning" she said.

Well what would you expect when you place your cheap Chinese power board on the bed to charge your cheap Chinese phone!

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"I was nearly barbecued at 5 am this morning" she said

spit-roasted at 5 am is the norm ...

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

in possession of a high-current source of electricity

Just bought a charging cable with a Volts/Amps display. Charging an empty battery takes 1.2 amps @ 5.1 volts = 6.12 watts. Hardly high current source.

 

Of course the problems start when that device malfunctions and connects the phone directly to the mains...........BOOM!

Strange word barbecue.

It does not mean to grill food on an open fire.

It comes from the french words meaning skewered from beard to tail, so the the entire body could be spit roasted and rotated while being roasted over an open fire.

 

So what did this girl do to be taken from beard to tail  .  .  . the mind boggles.

 

In south africa they cook food over an open fire called a braai or braaivleis.

BBQ is a potatochip flavour.

Off topic posts and replies have been removed. 

Whenever i have to touch a plug i wear a rubber suit and flipflops

That's why pollution is so high

1 hour ago, Inepto Cracy said:

In south africa they cook food over an open fire called a braai or braaivleis.

Did you really have to start about my favourite food while recovering and havent been able to eat for a few days?
Now I will have to get Ceres fruit juice tomorrow as well (this is the best on earth).

Edited January 17, 20206 yr by ChaiyaTH

8 hours ago, BobinBKK said:

11 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Honestly, who in their right mind recharges a dangerous lithium-cell battery ON THE BED?

 

Would she also be cooking in bed, leaving the camping stove on overnight?

Thai people, that's who...

 

Said the people posting on laptops and computers, many of which are just as likely to burst into flame as a cell phone.