Josh Hamilton was making a purchase at a gas station on Owensboro, Kentucky, last weekend when his pants burst into flames! He ran outside and dropped his pants, and a store employee put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. The fire is attributed to a spare lithium battery he had in his pocket, which probably reacted with keys or coins. Never carry loose batteries without a cover. Hamilton was taken to a hospital with second-degree burns. -via reddit
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I don't want to call him a liar, but ... his pants are clearly on fire. And, I'm never carrying batteries in my pockets again.
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I almost had this happen to me. I mindlessly dropped some batteries in to the wrong pocket where my keys were. Fortunately in less than a minute my wife needed to borrow my keys. The keys and the batteries were blazing hot. Now I don't ever put batteries in any pockets.
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