Re: lithium explosion

On 2024/04/12 9:52 a.m., john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:22:00 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 4/12/2024 10:04 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 12/04/2024 9:16 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-04-12 07:19, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 9/04/2024 3:03 am, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

On 4/8/24 18:35, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68744317
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It doesn't look like that one was charging.
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Lithium battery fires are a big deal in New York too.
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San Fancisco is swarming with illegal, unlicensed electric scooters,
surfboards, wheelie things, bikes, and motorcycles.

As are most cities with access to Amazon/eBay...(no regulations on what people can sell on these platforms)
...

And fretting about the hazards of exploding batteries with 300 million
guns floating around is pretty schizophrenic. Compared to being injured
by an exploding bike (or shot by a stranger for that matter) your
chances of being shot by a police officer are at least the same, or higher.

 About 1300 people were killed by police in the US last year, out of a
population of 333 million, about 4 PPM. Cops rarely shoot polite
law-abiding citizens; don't threaten people, especially cops, with
guns or knives.

Here in Canada the average number of people killed by police annually is just under 40 per year since 2011. Out of a population of roughly 40,000,000 or 1 PPM in other words.
Perhaps our gun laws do make a difference.
John :-#)#