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Ok, What Was It?

If you are talking about plastic encased sealed car batteries you are very unlikely to encounter an exploded battery. But you are very likely to encounter swollen, cracked, leaking and vented acid if it was shorted out.

If on the other hand you are talking ye olde style, designed to be topped up with distiller water and regularly cared for, then yeah, the vapours can catch fire and explode when the level is low. And yes, if you let one battery drop to low level and gas out until it exploded, I would expect all your other batteries to be neglected.

Where is the mystery?
 
William Parcher said:
She said that all three exploded at the same time.
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If it was a short from a prankster then there is no mystery from all three being targeted.

If it was bad maintenance of wet cells, and one was in a bad way from not being topped up, I would expect all three to be neglected and on or near the point of destruction. No mystery.
 
That's why I lean towards vandalism since all three exploded/swelled up and oozed on the same night. I can't see a malfunction being that well timed and I'm not even sure whether they were all bought at the same time or the same brand. It was so long ago and I wouldn't have thought to ask about it at the time.
 
Jodie said:
That's why I lean towards vandalism since all three exploded/swelled up and oozed on the same night. I can't see a malfunction being that well timed and I'm not even sure whether they were all bought at the same time or the same brand. It was so long ago and I wouldn't have thought to ask about it at the time.
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You misunderstand. If you have not checked one battery until the point of destruction you will not have checked others. Who can say how long they were in such a poor state?

You seem to be assuming they all turned bad that night, when they would have been decaying unchecked until there was a problem. Weeks, months, who knows?
 
Baffling Batteries: solutions presented are enough to end that mystery

Shutting *********: solutions presented are enough to end that mystery

Teleporting Teeth: enough solutions have been presented that have a higher probability than poltergoosts, therefore...end of that mystery

NEXT!!!

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Edited for rule 10. Do not attempt to evade the autocensor.
 
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You misunderstand. If you have not checked one battery until the point of destruction you will not have checked others. Who can say how long they were in such a poor state?

You seem to be assuming they all turned bad that night, when they would have been decaying unchecked until there was a problem. Weeks, months, who knows?
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Don't you think it's more likely that we were vandalized than have all three batteries clunk out at the same time? The cars were running the day before. I took mine to school and my parents drove theirs' to work the previous day.
 
I saved the best for last. This was only 3 years ago. I was standing on the front stoop a little after 7pm on February 17th. I happened to be talking to a mortgage person about refinancing my house when I heard a pop to my left.

I looked over and saw sparks going up the side of the building, over an air conditioning unit, then over the roof before they went out leaving what looked like a floating ash. It slowly drifted my way and was undulating, at that point I thought it might be a plastic bag.

As it got closer it looked larger than a small plastic bag so I stepped off the stoop to get a better look. It floated directly above my head and as it stretched out while undulating it was shaped like a square with rounded corners, it had a grayish/blue tinge with phosphorescent red balls connected by reddish branches inside of it.

It flipped up to avoid the corner of the house and continued to undulate away over my roof towards the river. It seemed alive but didn't act like it knew I was there. It looked like this as it moved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4P65EKjt0

What was it?
 
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Jodie said:
I saved the best for last. This was only 3 years ago. I was standing on the front stoop a little after 7pm on February 17th. I happened to be talking to a mortgage person about refinancing my house when I heard a pop to my left.

I looked over and saw sparks going up the side of the building, over an air conditioning unit, then over the roof before they went out leaving what looked like a floating ash. It slowly drifted my way and was undulating, at that point I thought it might be a plastic bag.

As it got closer it looked larger than a small plastic bag so I stepped off the stoop to get a better look. It floated directly above my head and as it stretched out while undulating it was shaped like a square with rounded corners, it had a grayish/blue tinge with phosphorescent red balls connected by reddish branches inside of it.

It flipped up to avoid the corner of the house and continued to undulate away over my roof towards the river. It seemed alive but didn't act like it knew I was there. It looked like this as it moved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4P65EKjt0

What was it?
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How the hell should anybody know? You were standing right there and you don't seem to know.

From your description, it sounds like an electrical short, and the resulting flash and smoke.

Once again, I think we can more easily say what it wasn't.

This is the "best", you saved, for last?
 
Jodie said:
Don't you think it's more likely that we were vandalized than have all three batteries clunk out at the same time? The cars were running the day before. I took mine to school and my parents drove theirs' to work the previous day.
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Not at all.

Given some were described as being on the point of failure or explosion, would have been in much the same conditions (being at the same location) and having experienced Murpheys Law often enough in industry, I would think it is perfectly possible, as there is no evidence for tampering described.

If the last time batteries were checked was a year ago at the service, all of them have the year to degrade, and you simply would not notice two were "on the point of" popping until you looked.

If all three have been neglected and were well past failing, then it is not surprising if the same straw breaks all three backs at once. Humidity, temperature, or a stressed driver cranking the key a little too long and stressing the battery, all plausible.

It sounds silly, but bad news coming in threes is not a surprise to anybody who has been on call in any engineering discipline. There are just days like that.
 
Jodie said:
I saved the best for last. This was only 3 years ago. I was standing on the front stoop a little after 7pm on February 17th. I happened to be talking to a mortgage person about refinancing my house when I heard a pop to my left.

I looked over and saw sparks going up the side of the building, over an air conditioning unit, then over the roof before they went out leaving what looked like a floating ash. It slowly drifted my way and was undulating, at that point I thought it might be a plastic bag.

As it got closer it looked larger than a small plastic bag so I stepped off the stoop to get a better look. It floated directly above my head and as it stretched out while undulating it was shaped like a square with rounded corners, it had a grayish/blue tinge with phosphorescent red balls connected by reddish branches inside of it.

It flipped up to avoid the corner of the house and continued to undulate away over my roof towards the river. It seemed alive but didn't act like it knew I was there. It looked like this as it moved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4P65EKjt0

What was it?
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It was a nose goblin. if you didn't notice it, you would be the host of it's family now.
 
I saved the best for last.
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Lots of little details tell me that a person is ********ting. Like panhandlers who need a very specific amount of money for the train or bus or whatever. Pics or it didn't happen.
 
Jodie, how would it be if your life was just mundane, boring and unfettered by any supernatural goings on?

Would you feel "less than"?
 
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