Another mod accident but this one has me baffled

[Rabbit Slayer]

An employee at VaporWize, a smoke shop in Memphis, immediately noticed something hazardous when FOX13 showed her the picture of Caples' combusted e-cigarette.

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns said as she described the pieces Caples used for his vaporizer. "Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though."


I figured out what happend...

The Memphis smoke shop employee's comment was so wrong, it went back in time and they poor guys head exploded, not the mod
stolen from me from a closed thread

 

[Butch]

Physical trainer, looks to be well muscled. If a mod explosion did that the mod would be shredded. It is not.. My guess he fell off the parallel bars & got injured. Having no insurance got a budy to fake the mod explosion. So they could ride the wave of lawsuits the media is creating.
Aint no way a mod had enough force to do that to a guy in that physical shape & still be that intact.

 

[Bubsmash]

I myself am not believing one single word of this story. I have a feeling something more happend here that has been purposely left out by the person reporting the story to make the story that much more dramatic. Reporters do this kind crap all the time yet there are are allot of idiots out there that will 100% believe this crap. Another good poimt that was raised was that the pictures posted may not even be the device at all that actually exploded.

 

[Kprthevapr]

I figgered out what happened....

He was crossing the street outta the crosswalk and got hit by a car...the last thing he remembers is hitting the vape...then...BAM.. He gets hit by car, breaking the glass on his tank.

 

[cigarbabe]

This looks wrong to me.
How was it strong enough to break his neck and teeth and burn him but all that's broken is the glass.
Something doesn't add up.
Also yes the media makes vapping look bad in this one but any self respecting person who isn't doing it just to look cool and fit in knows that safety comes first.
Can't vape if you're dead or in the hospital.

Most vapors don't have a clue about safety with apv's...battery or otherwise sadly.
I've tried to correct much misinformation that vapers have but they don't want to hear it because.....they watched a YouTube video!
C.B.

 

[WillyZee]

follow the money ... who did this guy owe?

 

[sofarsogood]

The glass is broken, that's it. There is no other damage. There is no sign of any venting or bursting. Has the fire investigator examined this incident? Where there any witnesses? May be the victim believes it was the mod but it wasn't. If all those injuries happened to me I might not be making much sense either.

 

[nicnik]

He seems injured too badly to have been a part of a scheme to deceive. Among the possibilities is that the hospital has deceived everybody involved, and that when he's well enough, he'll put a stop to it.

 

[TheMike21]

I know it can be done safely, but do we really need mechs anymore? Really?

 

[papergoblin]

The article seems to be written by a middle school student, that is barely passing. The mod looks like it has never been touched, the tank missing glass too cleanly, I call BS. This guy got hurt but look at his lips and the drip tip, not happening. This is a scam post 100%, set to feed the gov. agenda.

 

[sofarsogood]

He seems injured too badly to have been a part of a scheme to deceive. Among the possibilities is that the hospital has deceived everybody involved, and that when he's well enough, he'll put a stop to it.

The hospitall can report on the injuries. That is their expertise and I'm sure they are accurate. What was the cause of the injuries? Was there a witness? Has there been an investigation by someone qualified to determine the cause of the accident? I went back and reread the article. It has been edited. In the previous version a relative of the injured guy said the ecig caused the accident. Did she witness that? The problem is the device does not show evidence of a violent failure.

This reminds me of the story of the toddler who died in NY and the claim was it was from ingesting nic. Efforts to get the death certificate from the authorities were stonewalled. In that case there are several other equally plausible causes of death. WIthout the death certificate it's all hearsay.

 

[AzPlumber]

Immaculate Explosion (an explosion with no boom boom)

 

[Kent C]

The article seems to be written by a middle school student, that is barely passing.

IOW, by a Columbia School of Journalism grad.

 

[r77r7r]

This is more than once I think I saw someone use a sub-tank on a hybrid. Today I saw that tank listed as a Hybrid on a webstore. Are people thinking it's for use on Hybrid, not what it actually means?

 

[Kent C]

This is more than once I think I saw someone use a sub-tank on a hybrid. Today I saw that tank listed as a Hybrid on a webstore. Are people thinking it's for use on Hybrid, not what it actually means?

It's not clear that the mod was a hybrid - just that the Copper Steampunk mod clones can be straight mech or hybrid. My guess now, is that it wasn't a hybrid (didn't really blow up) or that it wasn't even an 'ecig accident'.

 

[papergoblin]

The mod is not a hybrid, it uses a connection like an infected, Anatolian, and chi you. It uses a set screw or post to the atty and one threaded in that one to the battery for length. I use mechs. all the time, I've only had one vent and it was my fault. The button and/or mod will get hot before it happens and trust me I mean hot not warm. If this was a short, he would have to keep holding the button with no vapor production happening and had it in his face as well. If anyone has ever had a mod not fire when the button is pushed, the first instinct is to look at it, not keep holding and waiting for it to work.

That's why I say this is bs, if the mod had a battery vent in it, there would be more damage or as in my case no damage, to me or the mod. To jack up your person, the mod would be jacked up too, that is a thin walled copper mod. The mod would have expanded, separated, or had scorch marks. You can't have skin burned but not burn accessories, nobody has ever been shot without a smoking gun some where.

 

[papergoblin]

Where's the signs of use, shards of glass, the bottom button and the battery. This whole thing looks brand new and how is the drip tip not damaged but his lips were, scam just sayin'. If you go back and look a couple of months ago it was a white guy with same injuries up to fractured invertebrate, Huffington post article was poorly written compared to the link posted.

EDIT: the article posted says Memphis TN but it happened in CO, so which is it, if he was transferred to a different hosp. looks like he would have went to Vanderbilt, Tenncare (Tennessee Medicaid) and closer than CO., also no signs of eliquid on anything and before anyone says they cleaned it, again where's the rest of it.

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

The mod and or tank maker should sue the news media, they need to be held accountable for propagating lies and poor fact checking skills

 

[Rizzyking]

Clone tank on clone mod with lousy battery and clueless user could result in an accident but that didn't happen here everything is too clean for that mod to have blown. He got injured some other way and jumped on the bandwagon currently rolling around, as others have said probably embarrassed about how he got the injuries or can't afford the medical care and it was just too easy to throw the blame onto the mod. Trouble is we can look at that mod and know it didn't blow but Joe public will just read and accept the story and wollah the antz just gained a load more opponents to vaping.

 

[mcol]

Just saw on FB a Colorado Springs tv station is going to do a story on this, with
an interview with the victim's family, and experts will weigh in on how
to keep us e-cig users safe.