{"id":659,"date":"2005-07-03T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/03\/laptop-goes-boom\/"},"modified":"2005-07-03T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T05:08:48","slug":"laptop-goes-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/03\/laptop-goes-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/toasty-laptop.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=320,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/toasty-laptop-small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"167\" alt=\"Toasty Laptop\" title=\"Click Image to Enlarge\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>click image to enlarge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>As seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardocp.com\">[H]ard|OCP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I work as a pc technician for America&#8217;s largest electronics retailer. Today a customer brought his laptop in for repair and stated that it &#8220;exploded&#8221;. After five years as a tech I thought I had seen it all and was wondering about his perception of &#8220;explosion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As I cracked open the box of a five month old Compaq Presario I was hit with a foul stench and immediately knew the chosen words of &#8220;explosion&#8221; were appropriate. Somehow, someway&#8230;.this laptops battery totally exploded causing a large fireball and partial disintegration of the computer. The battery caught fire sending a fireball through the front of the laptop blowing a three inch hole through what used to be the floppy on the opposite side of the case.<\/p>\n<p>I know that any battery has the potential for danger given the correct circumstances, however this battery met a truly violent end under normal operating conditions. The customer stated that his entire table was burnt to a crisp and would of been true of the whole house if a fire extinguisher was not as handy as it was.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click image to enlarge As seen on [H]ard|OCP: &#8220;I work as a pc technician for America&#8217;s largest electronics retailer. Today a customer brought his laptop in for repair and stated that it &#8220;exploded&#8221;. After five years as a tech I thought I had seen it all and was wondering about his perception of &#8220;explosion&#8221;. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/03\/laptop-goes-boom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploding Laptop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-images","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}