Another Ecig explosion in the news - BUT - wait for it...

[Colonelboom]

Son blows up family home after plugging e-cigarette into wrong charger - Mirror Online

Group manager Dan Tasker said: "We discovered that the woman's son had lost the charger that came with the e-cigarette kit he had bought, so he had plugged it into a different USB charger and then gone out.

"This then overheated and caught light to the bedding, and the fire then caused the canister to expand and explode.


"Plugs need to be appropriate for the device they are charging and not all can be transferred between devices. The consequences of using the wrong charger with the wrong device can be devastating and we are extremely relieved that on this occasion no-one was harmed."

Yep, that's right. They actually reported that the issue was with the WRONG charger rather than the usual ecigs are all exploding line.

Good Job Daily Mirror!

Any of you that are Twitter users, please drop http://twitter.com/richardhp a tweet to thank him for decent reporting. That might actually spur more journo's to follow suit

 

[Tutterz]

If regulation is brought in, it should be for stuff like this specifically. I wouldn't be afraid to put a bet on that he got it off a market stall, from a vendor who gave him no safety information on recharging the battery.

It is nice to see a change from the usual slanderous scare mongering headlines though

 

[Vapemonkey1980]

As someone who worked on a stall, and now in a shop, I can safely say we are very specific when instructing people about charging.

Not to say all would admittedly.

Ebay/Amazon on the other hand.......