male announcer: OKAY, FREAKS...
HERE'S WHY YOU'RE NOT SITTING DOWN
WATCHING THE NEW OPRAH CHANNEL.
DO THEY HAVE A 'LUDE-POPPING HAIRDRESSER?
- OHH. - OH, MY GOD.
announcer: OR A COUPLE POST-KATRINA RANSACKERS?
[electricity sizzling] - OHH!
announcer: HOW 'BOUT A PSYCHIC SURGEON?
A LOAN SHARK WHO TOOK HIS... CUT.
- IT'S OVER.
announcer: A JEALOUS MISTRESS WHO MELTED DOWN.
- AAH!
announcer: AND AN ANNOYING MOVIEGOER
WHO TOOK THE WRONG CALL?
- HELLO?
announcer: YOU WANNA FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF?
- IT'S AS AMAZING AS EVER.
announcer: JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH 'EM GIVE UP THE GHOST...
- AAH!
announcer: ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF 1000 WAYS TO DIE.
DEATH IS EVERYWHERE.
MOST OF US TRY TO AVOID IT.
OTHERS CAN'T GET OUT OF ITS WAY.
EVERY DAY, WE FIGHT A NEW WAR AGAINST GERMS,
TOXINS,
INJURY,
ILLNESS,
AND CATASTROPHE.
THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS TO WIND UP DEAD.
THE FACT THAT WE SURVIVE AT ALL
IS A MIRACLE.
BECAUSE EVERY DAY WE LIVE,
WE FACE...
IT'S 1972, AND LIFE IS GOOD FOR BARRY.
HE WAS A SWINGIN' HAIRSTYLIST WITH A LOYAL CLIENTELE.
- IT'S AS AMAZING AS EVER!
announcer: THE REASON HE HAD SO MANY RETURN CUSTOMERS...
- OH, YOU HAVE MAGIC HANDS, BARRY.
announcer: WAS THE HAPPY ENDINGS
BARRY PROVIDED TO EVERY APPOINTMENT.
- ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE ME A PRIVATE TRIM?
WHAT ARE YOU CHARGING?
announcer: ALL DAY LONG, BARRY WOULD DO THEIR DOS...
- YOU KNOW WHAT? HEAD INTO THE BACK.
announcer: THEN DO HIS CLIENTS.
- OHH. - I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DOCTOR.
- OHH! YES.
announcer: BARRY'S IDEA OF FOREPLAY?
VODKA AND QUAALUDES,
A MUSCLE RELAXANT THAT WAS LEGAL UNTIL THE EARLY '80S.
- 'LUDES WERE CALLED LEG SPREADERS,
BECAUSE GIRLS WHO USED TO SIT LIKE THIS...
AND THEN GIRLS WHO USED TO SIT LIKE THIS...
YOU GIVE 'EM A 'LUDE, AND THEY SAT LIKE THAT.
AND NOT ONLY DID IT ENHANCE A MAN'S,
YOU KNOW, SEXUALITY,
BUT THE KEY THING WAS
IT EXTENDED A WOMAN'S ORGASM AS WELL.
I MEAN, IT WAS A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR EVERYBODY.
- ALL RIGHT. YEAH. - OH...
- H-H-HOLD ON. - OH, MY GOD!
announcer: AT THE END OF THE DAY,
BARRY TRIED TO GET "LUDE" ONE MORE TIME.
- I SAY WE HAVE A LITTLE CONSULTATION.
- YOU KNOW WHAT? - COME ON, BABY.
- I THINK I'M GONNA GO HOME.
announcer: BUT HE WAS OVER-LUDED.
- I THINK YOU NEED TO TAKE A LITTLE NAP.
- [chuckles]
[slurring] I'LL SEE YOU LATER.
[laughing]
- ONE THING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO WITH 'LUDES
IS TO DRINK ALCOHOL IN EXCESS.
'CAUSE IF YOU DO, THERE'S A VERY, VERY GOOD CHANCE
YOU MAY NEVER WAKE UP.
[thud]
announcer: THE NEXT DAY... - BARRY?
announcer: CLIENT NUMBER THREE CAME BACK
TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER SHOT,
BUT BARRY WAS TOO BURNT OUT.
- AAH! announcer: LITERALLY.
HE DIDN'T O.D.
HE JUST PASSED OUT WITH HIS NECK
NUZZLED RIGHT UP TO HIS BURNING HOT CURLING IRON.
- BARRY!
- OUR HAIRDRESSER,
WHO WAS LOADED UP ON QUAALUDES,
A DRUG THAT AFFECTS YOUR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM,
WAS IN A STATE OF ANESTHESIA.
HE PASSED OUT, FELL ON A HOT CURLING IRON,
FRIED HIS NECK TO THE POINT
WHERE THERE WAS SO MUCH DESTRUCTION OF THE TISSUE
THAT AIR COULD NOT GET INTO HIS LUNGS
AND HE SUFFOCATED.
HE DIED.
- BARRY!
announcer: BARRY WOULD CURL HIS LADIES' HAIR,
AND THEN THEIR TOES.
- OHH!
announcer: BUT IN THE END,
HIS BOOZE AND 'LUDES LOVE POTION
LEFT HIM TOO HOT UNDER THE COLLAR.
- AAH!
[wind whipping]
announcer: ON A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN,
HURRICANE KATRINA WAS A 12.
AS THOUSANDS OF RELIEF WORKERS
POURED IN TO AID THE REGION,
THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT THE STORM
HAD ALSO STIRRED UP A LOT OF BAD JUJU.
- NEW ORLEANS IS VERY OCCULT--
THE ATTRACTION OF VAMPIRES,
VOODOO,
AND THE UNDEAD.
AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA HIT,
A LOT OF THE NEGATIVE ENERGIES THAT CAME
WITH ALL OF THE DISPLACED CORPSES
REALLY DID STIR UP SOME KIND OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
ABOUT THE OCCULT REGARDING NEW ORLEANS.
announcer: EILEEN AND NICOLE WERE HERE TO HELP...
THEMSELVES.
- I DON'T THINK WE CAN GET IN THERE.
announcer: PRETENDING TO BE RELIEF WORKERS,
THESE BAD GIRLS WERE HAVING A FIELD DAY
STEALING ANYTHING OF VALUE
FROM THE CRIPPLED CITY.
BUT ROBBING A CHURCH?
THAT'S NOT GOING TO SIT WELL WITH THE BIG GUY.
THE CHURCH TURNED OUT TO BE A GOLD MINE.
- LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE THEY GOT.
announcer: THEY DECIDED TO PUSH THEIR LUCK
AND EXPLORE THE BASEMENT.
- OH, BASEMENT.
- GIRL, I DON'T KNOW.
- COME ON, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
announcer: BUT A CHURCH IN THE FRENCH QUARTER
HAS SECRETS BETTER LEFT UNDISTURBED.
BAD GIRLS AND FILTHY LUCRE ARE A MATCH MADE IN...
HELL.
[both screaming]
A BROKEN POWER LINE ELECTRIFIED THE WATER
AND HAD THESE BIG EASY BITCHES
SHAKING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
- A CIRCUIT BREAKER UNDERWATER
IS GONNA CHARGE THE WATER WITH 440 VOLTS,
WAY ABOVE WHAT WOULD KILL A HUMAN BEING.
WHEN SHE STEPS INTO THE WATER,
THE ELECTRICITY RUNS THROUGH HER LEGS
INTO HER HEART, KILLING HER.
THE OTHER GIRL WHO IS TOUCHING HER,
SHE'S ALSO A CONDUCTOR.
IT GOES THROUGH HER, THROUGH HER HEART,
KILLING HER AS WELL.
announcer: EILEEN AND NICOLE WERE TRYING TO CAPITALIZE
ON THE MISFORTUNATE OF OTHERS.
- LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE THEY GOT.
announcer: BUT AS THE SAYING GOES,
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.
- [shouting]
announcer: AS FOR THE BAD DEEDS,
THAT PUNISHMENT IS DEATH.
COMING UP, A ROBBERY BLOWS UP
IN TWO DUMB CROOKS' FACES.
AND... - WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY?
announcer: HERE'S WHY THEY CALL IT A SCISSOR LIFT.
announcer: IN TODAY'S DIGITAL AGE,
BANKS CAN SEND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AROUND THE WORLD
IN JUST A NANOSECOND.
BUT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY,
THE DATA STREAM CONSISTED OF AN INGENIOUS SYSTEM
OF PIPES AND FANS,
SENDING HARD CASH
FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE NEXT.
THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND A PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM
IS PNEUMATICS.
WHEN YOU HAVE A FAN ATTACHED AT ONE END OF THE TUBE,
IT GENERATES A POSITIVE PRESSURE
WHICH PUSHES THE TRANSPORT CANISTER
AWAY FROM THE FAN.
THE TRANSPORT CANISTER HAS CUFFS
THAT CREATE AN AIRTIGHT SEAL WITH THE PIPE.
announcer: HENRY AND ORSON
WERE A COUPLE OF TUNNEL RATS
LOOKING TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK.
THEY CASED THE BANK,
AND KNEW IT SENT THE AFTERNOON DEPOSITS
ACROSS TOWN
AT PRECISELY 5:00 P.M.
- HERE WE GO.
- ORSON CUT THROUGH THE PIPE...
JAMMED A PIECE OF WOOD INTO THE HOLE...
AND WAITED.
- HERE YOU GO. ALMOST 5:00, RIGHT?
[thud]
[both laughing]
announcer: THE BANK DIDN'T DISAPPOINT.
SOON, THEY WERE INTERCEPTING DEPOSITS
FROM ALL OVER THE CITY.
[thunk]
BUT AS MORE CANISTERS CAME FLYING THROUGH THE TUBES...
PRESSURE BEGAN TO BUILD UP IN THE PIPE.
- WHY DON'T YOU GET ANOTHER ONE THERE?
- OH, IT'S STUCK. IT WON'T COME OUT.
announcer: HENRY AND ORSON WEREN'T ABOUT TO LEAVE
ANYTHING ON THE TABLE.
- PUSH, ORSON, PUSH.
[both grunting]
announcer: THEY STRAINED TO GET TO THE REST OF THE LOOT.
- IT'S MOVING, I CAN FEEL IT...
announcer: BUT IN THE END, THEIR PIPE DREAM
TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE.
- WHEN YOU CUT THE PIPE IN A PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM,
YOU NORMALLY RELEASE PRESSURE AND RENDER THE SYSTEM USELESS.
HOWEVER, IN THIS CASE,
WHEN THE THIEVES BLOCKED THE TUBE,
THE TRANSPORT CANISTERS GOT STUCK,
AND PRESSURE STARTED BUILDING UP BEHIND IT,
RESULTING IN THE CATASTROPHIC FAILURE OF THE TUBE ITSELF.
- FOUR!
announcer: HENRY AND ORSON
THOUGHT THEY HAD AN AIRTIGHT PLAN
FOR THE PERFECT CRIME.
[both laughing]
BUT THEN THEY GOT GREEDY.
- PUSH, ORSON, PUSH.
announcer: AND INSTEAD OF GETTING RICH...
- JEEZ!
announcer: THEY ENDED UP PAYING THE PIPER.
ON THIS REMOTE ISLAND IN THE PHILIPPINES,
IF YOU WERE SICK, YOU WENT TO SEE HONESTO.
HE USED TO BE A PICKPOCKET,
UNTIL HE MET SOMEONE IN JAIL
WHO TAUGHT HIM A MUCH MORE LUCRATIVE SCAM.
- UHH.
announcer: HONESTO WAS WHAT IS KNOWN
AS A PSYCHIC SURGEON.
HE WOULD WELCOME SICKLY PEASANTS INTO HIS HUT
AND PULL DISEASED ORGANS DIRECTLY OUT OF THEIR BODIES
WITHOUT MAKING ANY KIND OF INCISION.
WHAT HE WAS REALLY PULLING OUT
WERE HIDDEN, BLOODY ANIMAL PARTS.
BUT THE SUPERSTITIOUS LOCALS WERE GULLIBLE
AND PAID IN CASH.
- A PSYCHIC SURGEON USES SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
TO APPEAR TO REACH INSIDE OF A SICK PERSON'S BODY
TO REMOVE PATHOGENIC TISSUE
OR ORGANS,
AND THEN HE SAYS,
"TA-DA, THE PATIENT'S HEALED."
announcer: HONESTO STARTED CIRCLING THE DEATH DRAIN
SOON AFTER TREATING A LOCAL LEPER.
IF HE HAD ACTUALLY GONE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL,
HE WOULD HAVE PROCEEDED WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE ONLY WAY TO CONTRACT LEPROSY
WAS THROUGH CONTACT WITH OPEN SORES
AND INFECTED NASAL MUCUS.
- HISTORICALLY, IT WAS BELIEVED
THAT LEPROSY WAS CONTRACTED THROUGH SEXUAL CONTACT.
WE NOW KNOW THAT THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE HARD TO GET.
TYPICALLY, IT IS CAUGHT THROUGH NASAL DROPLETS
OR OPEN SORES IN THE SKIN.
ONCE THE LEPROSY BACTERIA ENTERS THE BLOODSTREAM,
IT STARTS MULTIPLYING VERY FAST.
announcer: A MONTH AFTER THE BACTERIA
WORKED ITS WAY INTO HIS SYSTEM,
HONESTO DEVELOPED THE TELLTALE ROTTING SKIN LESIONS
OF LEPROSY.
HIS ASSISTANT TOOK ONE LOOK AND NEVER LOOKED BACK.
- YOU DON'T DIE FROM LEPROSY ITSELF.
YOU DIE FROM THE SIDE EFFECTS THAT LEPROSY CAUSES.
IN THIS INDIVIDUAL,
THE BLOOD HAD BECOME SO THICK,
THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS PRONE
TO START FORMING BLOOD CLOTS.
announcer: A FEW MONTHS LATER,
THE PHONY PHYSICIAN WAS DONE FOR.
CLUTCHING HIS NOW MEANINGLESS CASH,
A BLOOD CLOT SWAM THROUGH HIS VEINS,
LANDED IN HIS LUNG,
AND STOPPED HIS BLACK HEART.
WHAT'S UP, DOC?
ARE YOU HARD UP FOR CASH?
DO YOU NEED A LOAN?
GO TO A BANK.
JUST DON'T BORROW FROM THESE GUYS.
- HEY, CHARLES!
HUH? YOU'RE A TOUGH MAN TO FIND!
- HEY!
- HUH? YOU DON'T RETURN MY PHONE CALLS.
- HEY, I'VE BEEN BUSY. I'M WORKING.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
announcer: TONY AND NICK WERE LOAN SHARKS
WHO PREYED ON THOSE ADDICTED TO GAMBLING.
LIKE CHARLES. - HEY.
announcer: HE WAS WILLING TO RISK EVERYTHING.
- WE HAVE TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK
ABOUT THE TEN GRAND YOU OWE ME.
- ILLEGAL SPORTS GAMBLING AND LOAN SHARKING
ARE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING.
WE'RE GIVING YOU A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY
TO PLAY WITH, BUT WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK,
AND WE'RE GONNA-- WE WANT IT WITH INTEREST.
THE POINT SPREADS ARE, YOU KNOW,
ONE POINT, TWO POINTS, THREE POINTS.
IT VARIES SO MUCH.
SO IT'S NOT REALLY A SET, FIXED RATE.
IF THEY DON'T PAY YOU BACK,
YOU CAN GO THROUGH YOUR OWN MEANS
TO GET YOUR MONEY WITHOUT THE COURTS.
- COME ON DOWN, CHARLES!
announcer: CHARLES WASN'T GOING ANYWHERE.
HE WAS SAFE RIGHT WHERE HE WAS.
- OH, COME ON, MAN. JUST GIVE ME ONE WEEK.
YOU KNOW I'M GOOD FOR IT.
- WHAT'D HE SAY? ONE WEEK?
WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY?
WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE, A CHARITY?
announcer: BUT TONY AND NICK DIDN'T FEEL LIKE
WAITING A WEEK.
THEY WANTED THEIR MONEY NOW.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
AND SINCE CHARLES WASN'T COMING DOWN,
TONY WAS GOING TO GET HIM DOWN.
- HEH, HEY! NO, NO, NO!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN?
announcer: HE WENT TO CUT THE HYDRAULIC LINE.
- COME ON! HEY!
[spraying]
- AAH! AAH!
[splat]
announcer: AND WITHIN SECONDS,
TONY'S CAREER AS A LOAN SHARK
WAS CUT SHORT.
HEY, HE WAS A LOAN SHARK,
NOT A SCISSOR LIFT OPERATOR.
- WHEN OUR GUY CUTS THE HYDRAULIC LINE,
THE ENTIRE WEIGHT OF THIS LIFT,
WHICH IS TONS OF METAL AND STEEL,
COMES CRASHING DOWN
AND SCISSORS HIS NECK,
CRUSHING HIS WINDPIPE, CUTTING THROUGH THE MUSCLE,
CRUSHING THE BONE,
CUTTING OFF THE CAROTID ARTERIES THAT GO TO HIS BRAIN.
AND THEN SEVERING RIGHT THROUGH HIS SPINAL CORD.
HE DIES FROM LACK OF BLOOD,
NO ENERVATION FROM HIS BRAIN TO HIS BODY--
INSTANTANEOUS DEATH.
announcer: TONY WAS A TOUGH GUY WHO LOANED OUT MONEY.
- YOU DON'T RETURN MY PHONE CALLS! FINE!
announcer: BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO COLLECT,
TONY WOULD GET SO WORKED UP...
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN?
[spraying]
announcer: HE FINALLY JUST...
LOST HIS HEAD.
UP NEXT, A SEXPERIMENT GOES BAD.
- AAH! AAH!
announcer: AND... - HELLO?
announcer: CELL PHONES AND MOVIE THEATERS...
DON'T MIX.
[ping]
announcer: DR. STELGIS WAS A BRILLIANT VIROLOGIST
WHO PRACTICALLY LIVED IN HIS LAB.
- FIVE DAY, 3, 9.
announcer: HE AND HIS ASSISTANT DEIRDRE
HAD BEEN WORKING ON A NEW VACCINE FOR MONTHS.
- HEAD AND NECK, CLEAR.
announcer: RECENTLY, THEY PERFORMED
A NEW KIND OF EXPERIMENT.
- NICE WATCH.
- WOULD YOU STOP?
- WHAT? YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT.
I CAN SEE IT.
[heavy breathing]
- GOOD BILATERAL MOVEMENT.
GRADE THREE SYSTOLIC.
announcer: DEIRDRE WAS EAGER TO CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH.
- SO I WAS THINKING MAYBE
WE COULD GET TOGETHER AGAIN THIS WEEKEND.
announcer: DR. STELGIS, HOWEVER,
HAD A DIFFERENT OPINION ABOUT THEIR...BREAKTHROUGH.
- IT'S OVER, OKAY?
WE WORK TOGETHER.
- IT'S NOT OVER.
[car horn honking] announcer: STELGIS ENDED IT...
AND HEADED BACK TO HIS LIFE AND HIS WIFE.
- THE BITCH!
I'M GONNA DESTROY YOU!
announcer: BUT HELL HATH NO FURY
LIKE A LAB ASSISTANT SCORNED.
- [shouting indistinctly]
YOU STUPID...DIRTY...
AAH!
OHH! AAH!
AAH! AAH!
announcer: DEIRDRE GRABBED SODIUM AZIDE,
AN EXTREMELY VOLATILE, INORGANIC COMPOUND.
- IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER,
IT CONVERTS TO HYDROGEN AZIDE.
THIS HYDROGEN AZIDE IS ITS MOST POTENT TOXIC FORM,
IN WHICH IT CAN VIOLENTLY REACT.
UM, IN THE PRESENCE OF METALS,
IT ACTUALLY CAN DETONATE.
AND IT'S USED, ACTUALLY, AS DETONATORS FOR BOMBS.
announcer: THE METAL SINK WAS FILLED WITH WATER
AND CHEMICALS.
WHEN THE BREAKER EXPLODED,
DEIRDRE BECAME IMMERSED IN A CLOUD OF DEADLY TOXIC GAS.
- AAH!
announcer: IT SEARED THE SKIN RIGHT OFF HER FACE...
- [screaming and gasping]
announcer: AND THEN SHREDDED HER LUNGS.
- [wheezing]
[thud]
- IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, WITH THE EXPOSURE TO
AND INHALATION OF SODIUM AZIDE,
BURNING OF THE AIRWAYS OCCURRED,
RESULTING IN SWELLING OF THE AIRWAYS
AND FLUID ACCUMULATING IN THE LUNGS.
DEATH WAS LIKELY DUE TO RESPIRATORY FAILURE.
announcer: DEIRDRE COULDN'T KEEP HER LAB COAT ON.
- DESTROY YOU!
announcer: SHE COULDN'T KEEP HER JEALOUSY IN CHECK.
[glass shatters]
- OHH! AAH!
announcer: AND THEN THE WHOLE THING BLEW UP...
RIGHT IN HER FACE.
JANICE WAS EASY TO HATE.
- HELLO?
announcer: SHE TALKED NON-STOP ON HER CELL PHONE,
NO MATTER WHERE SHE WAS.
- HOLD ON, MY PHONE'S RINGING.
HELLO?
announcer: SHE COULDN'T CARE LESS WHO SHE ANNOYED.
- RIGHT, FINE, I'M GOING IN THE MOVIE THEATER NOW.
[bags rattling]
- OKAY. - I'M SORRY.
- YEAH, THINK OF ME ALL BY MYSELF.
YEAH.
announcer: BUT YAPPING ON HER PHONE
IN A MOVIE THEATER MADE HER A CANDIDATE
NOT FOR HATE...
- SHH!
- OH, MY GOD, IT'S JUST A PREVIEW.
announcer: BUT FOR MURDER.
- EXCUSE ME.
EXCUSE ME.
- PEOPLE TAKE THEIR MOVIES VERY SERIOUSLY.
NOWADAYS, GOING TO THE MOVIES IS EXPENSIVE.
AND IF THAT GETS RUINED,
PEOPLE GET VERY ANGRY ABOUT IT.
FIGHTS DEFINITELY DO BREAK OUT IN THE MOVIE THEATER.
MOST OF THE TIME, IT'S SOMEBODY DISTURBING
ANOTHER PERSON'S MOVIE EXPERIENCE.
UH, CELL PHONES ARE USUALLY ALWAYS AT THE HEART OF IT.
- HELLO?
announcer: FINALLY, ONE OF THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
HAD ENOUGH.
- [whispering] SHH! QUIET!
WE'RE TRYING TO WATCH A MOVIE.
- CAN'T WATCH THE MOVIE IF YOU'RE SHOUTING AT ME, CAN YOU?
announcer: EVEN IF HE HAD PULLED A GUN,
JANICE WOULD HAVE KEPT ON TALKING.
NOTHING WAS GOING TO STOP HER EXCEPT...
- YOU KNOW WHAT? I NEED ANOTHER ARM.
- SHH. - SHH! SHH! YOURSELF.
THAT'S SO ANNOYING.
YEAH, IT'S COOL.
WE SHOULD DEFINITELY HANG OUT.
YEAH. TUESDAY.
NO! [laughs]
[ping]
announcer: HER OWN PHONE.
A LITHIUM BATTERY HAS TWO SIDES,
AN ANODE, OR POSITIVE,
AND THE CATHODE, OR NEGATIVE SIDE.
THEY'RE SEPARATED BY A THIN, POLYMER SHEET.
JANICE'S BATTERY WAS DEFECTIVE
AND HAD METAL SHARDS
FLOATING IN THE ELECTROLYTE LIQUID,
WHICH CREATED A SHORT-CIRCUIT.
THIS RESULTED IN A THERMAL RUNAWAY SITUATION
WHICH EVENTUALLY CAUSED AN EXPLOSION.
[ping]
SHARDS OF PLASTIC AND METAL
TRAVELED UP HER EAR CANAL,
BROKE THROUGH THE INNER EAR,
AND EMBEDDED IN HER BRAIN.
THE BRAIN HEMORRHAGED
AND SHE IMMEDIATELY LOST CONSCIOUSNESS.
MINUTES LATER, SHE WAS JUST LIKE HER PHONE.
DEAD.