Elizabeth Wilkowski: “It wasn’t a boom … it was a KABOOM.”
Elizabeth Wilkowski, of Atlanta, Georgia, used a rag to protect her hand when she removed the E-cigarette from her computer’s USB port where it had been charging. She says her E-cigarette was charging in her computer’s USB port when it exploded and shot 4-foot flames across the living room
“If I hadn’t had been home, I would have lost my dogs, I would have lost my cats, I would have lost my house,”
— Elizabeth Wilkowski
The cigarette brand was reported to be E-Hit.
It’s happened before, and has caused injuries …
A Florida man trying to kick the smoking habit was puffing on an electronic cigarette when a faulty battery apparently caused it to explode in his mouth.
I had a dongle from a Microsoft wireless keyboard do the same thing so it isn’t only e-cigs.