Someone leaves a phone/electric scooter charging and kaboom, fire.
Someone carries a battery/power bank in their backpacks to school/work/home/train and kaboom.
As said, the guy with burned bum is not a rare occurrence, last time I saw a kid with his back burned.
This can be fixed with some education and assigning responsibilities.
Phones do not tend to explode that much unless punctured. They can stay…for now. But the power banks need more control, especially the higher capacity ones.
Samsung had a serious issue with phones exploding and had to invest a lot in fixing it and it was big news because they were a big brand and that was not supposed to happen. Phones are not doing that as often as power banks and not all power banks are going kaboom. Lithium batteries in general are risky but some are riskier and until the salt battery tech is perfected we just gotta be careful. Everywhere.
If anyone was to take local news seriously they wouldn’t be able to go outside due to the certainty they’d be stabbed, run over, have a building fall on them or some other nonsense, they wouldn’t be able to stay indoors for fear they’d be stabbed, run over, have a building fall on them or some other nonsense, even in death you wouldn’t be safe according to local news.
It’s an extremely rare occurence. There are billions of people carrying phones around with them, the number with burned bums is tiny.
Heck, they don’t call me Auntie Panic for nothing but watching local news is part of my job. That said, friggin random stuff falling from above makes you feel like in some Final Destination sequel. That and crossing the road at a proper zebra crossing.
In the third world we develop the sense of hyper awareness of our surroundings. Here we can relax a bit since thanks to local news we know what to look for.
I don’t mind having them inspected before getting on a plane. I had one that I dropped and it expanded kinda funny, so I took it to a 3C shop to recycle and replace. The guy at the counter looked at me like I was crazy, giving up a perfectly usable battery pack. I wonder if he kept it, but I didn’t want to risk a fire
Pacemakers have lithium batteries, let’s ban those.
The real danger here is having humans on trains. Let’s ban them too. Everyone stay at home, you’re all too dangerous, wear a mask, stay safe, don’t talk to anyone because you will be sexually assaulted, just stay on tiktok or roblox for a safe and positive environment where you will feel no harm and death comes with a “continue from last checkpoint” option
Why can’t the government protect me from all this high risk misery? I can’t do this myself, needs regulation, save me political leaders because I cannot take responsibility for what I’m exposing myself to. /s
Actually, according to the regulations, at least in New Taipei city, you cannot recycle batteries and power banks that are breached. You cannot throw them away either. Wonder what can be done then?
We would not need regulations if we lived by the Golden Rule: do onto others as you’d like to be treated.
So, for starters, do not sell or manufacture stuff that will blow on your face, or rather, other people 's bums.
Build sturdy stuff. Do your best for safe journeys. Shit happens but don’t make it happen.
It is like fighting against wearing seatbelts. In an accident, not wearing seatbelts not only endangers you but makes you a potential flying missile that will endanger others. Hence the regulation.
That’s naïve: some people like their hair pulled, or being whipped, or being controlled emotionally - that’s not for me.
You don’t know the history of the power pack in question, it might have been swollen for some time, or a dog might have chewed on it previously and so punctured it. You’re jumping to conclusions that it’s a manufacturing issue.
Where fitted. Trains don’t have seat belts, neither do buses, nor classic cars.
It doesn’t matter at the end of the day, as you say, shit happens. But there is a big difference between perceived risk and actual risk.
If anyone was to take local news seriously they wouldn’t be able to go outside due to the certainty they’d be stabbed, run over, have a building fall on them or some other nonsense, they wouldn’t be able to stay indoors for fear they’d be stabbed, run over, have a building fall on them or some other nonsense, even in death you wouldn’t be safe according to local news. 
