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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

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Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium-ion battery, fire officials said.
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    My only thought was that the pet owners are idiots

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      Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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      My cat exclusively choose USB cables, other cables are not tasty apparently. Is difficult to plan for everything.

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        Well, some of them are built so that they aren’t chewed on at all.

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        Cable plastics are derived from soy. They are designed to break down in landfills but the side effect is cat pasta.

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          Oh, very rigorous accessory engineering standards.

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