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Samsung Factory Fire Caused By Faulty Batteries (theguardian.com)
A fire that drew out 110 firefighters and 19 trucks to a factory operated by Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery supplier, Samsung SDI, was caused by discarded faulty batteries, the company has said. From a report: A "minor fire" broke out Wednesday in a Samsung SDI plant in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and had to be extinguished, according to local emergency services. The fire was contained to a part of the site used for waste processing, including faulty batteries. There were no casualties or significant impact on the operations of the plant, although the local fire department was called, said a Samsung SDI spokesperson. The Wuqing branch of the Tianjin fire department said on Sina Weibo that the "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products."
I heard you like fires, so we put a fire factory in your factory
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
That joke almost fits.
Film at 11.
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I guess you can't start a fire from disposing of Headphone jacks incorrectly.
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Giant fire that can't be put out bores hole through earth to Pacific ocean. China fills with water.
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Nuff said.
The jokes just write themselves, don't they?
. . .may have a new product line in the offing: Note7 Incendiary Grenades. MUCH better than Aperture Science Incendiary Lemons.
And 110 firefighters and 19 trucks is a **MINOR** fire ??
will the shipments have armored trucks as isis or others may want some old note 7's.
Here, it seems designed right for this!
So we heard you like fire so we put fire in the factory that makes the battery that puts the fire in your phone.
...the iRONY circuits, they are only rated for up to one giga-nelson...
If they had, they'd have seen that
"[the] material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products"
Doesn't sound like discarded waste to me.
Is this where they were disarming all the Note 7's the customers returned?
love is just extroverted narcissism
They are going to blast the competitors with all those explosive devices that they come up with. Why, my money is already burning a hole in my pocket.
Anyone else wonder how they shipped all these phones and batteries back to the factory in the first place? What carrier would agree to transport them?
The product is literally exploding off the shelves before it ever gets packaged.
Samsung, you're fired!
Yes, that's one of several things going on here. A fire at the Samsung factory is *interesting*, so more first responders show up. Seattle had a man climb a tree downtown and they had dozens of people involved--but it's a guy in a tree occasionally throwing pine cones. People showed up because it was a diversion, not because they needed more people.
Second, responses to commercial properties tend to be somewhat faster and definitely more staffed than responses to individual homes. The potential for massive damage to inventory or danger to the public is usually significantly greater (especially in retail spaces). Something big like a Samsung factory might also bring substantial money into an area, and losing factories has a ripple effect in a community.
Third, if you hear you have a potential chemical fire at a factory and you don't know how big it is yet, you WANT to err on the side of caution and have all of the capability there that you need, and then some.
Fourth, if you had a Samsung factory in your country, mightn't you want to use it for espionage?
Real lawyers write in C++
Hypothetical:
You're a smartphone manufacturer who wants to unseat Samsung.
All you gotta do is capitalize on the PR fiasco surrounding the Note 7.
Just slip a guy into the factory who sets off a fire.
Now you've just magnified the Note 7 fiasco into a... firestorm... and Samsung loses a huge amount of mindshare and thus markshare.
For a very low cost you gain some room to grow.
I expect some Chinese phone maker to suddenly start launching cool products and eating Samsung's lunch.
I'm hoping for snappy uniforms.
Trump! Trump! Trump!
What better way to say that the Samsung Note 7 was never the problem, than for a bunch of batteries to catch fire on their own... Samsung can just say - look, the Note 7 is not the problem - we are great designers...The batteries are the problem...
Fire At Landfill Used To Dispose Of Faulty Samsung Batteries
When does this happen in the movie?
I schaid I was cerious this time and I'd burn down that place. The batteries were convenient. Next time they won't fuck my paystub. GTG, my pina colada is here and there is some sweet bikini babe that needs to ask me something... Peace bitches!
Was this a Galaxy 8 fire sale ? Damn, I missed it!!!
Samsung suggested that one of the problems with the phone was that they did not leave enough space in the phone for the batteries to expand. So, what happened here? I doubt that Samsung was disposing of the phones with the batteries.
Hmmmm....
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