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I lost patience and grabbed a safety pin and did a little hole on both sides of the battery

DO. NOT. DO. THAT

No, it's not safe at all. You should be disposing of that battery immediately.

https://www.takomabattery.com/is-a-swollen-battery-dangerous-the-complete-guide-to-dealing-with-a-swollen-battery/

No longer a battery, it is now a fire bomb waiting to go off.

Its been said already but Im going to emphasize, NO. You are already lucky your pinhole fix didn’t make it explode! Holy shit!

spicy pillows kill.

If you have to ask, the answer is no it is not safe.

No. It is not safe.

Replace the battery and dispose the old one or dispose of the device properly.

Look it up but there's probably a Best Buy somewhere nearby that'll let you dispose of it for free not too far from you.

Never poke a battery again, you're lucky it didn't burst into flames and you very well could have exposed yourself to some bad stuff.

is there a risk of the battery going kaboom!!!

Is it really a risk if it's a guarantee?

If you smell a chemical smell while that's in your pocket you better drop your fucking pants and run, if you even get that much warning.

I intentionally made a swollen battery go off and that was fireworks level violent and it had a jet of pink flame that went on for quite a while.

No no no no. Dump it in some salt water and kill it dead.

If you can put the old battery in it, you can put a new battery in it. It is absolutely not worth risking a fire for the sake of a few quid. Those batteries are very dangerous when damaged.

Do not leave it unattended until you locate a bucket and some salt to safely kill it. Do not put it in normal trash until and unless fully killed.

Did you ever think about looking up information on how to handle batteries online before doing something like punching holes in your battery?!?!?

DANGER. DROP AND RUN.

I'm just here for the obituary

This can't be real. This has to be a troll. OP should be dead otherwise.

Really belongs to /c/shitposting

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUkKi7cfK4

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If what everyone else said hasn't already put the wind up you, this portion of an article below details why lithium fires are so freaking bad.

Once lithium battery fires take hold, they are notoriously difficult to put out, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. There have been several reports of fire departments being unable to extinguish burning EV batteries, which—amongst other things—led to Tesla issuing specific guidance to firefighters as to how to deal with such fires. There are several reasons for the severity of lithium battery fires. For a start, they burn extremely hot, and have a nasty habit of spontaneously reigniting when you think you’ve extinguished them. They also burn for a long time. If there’s any elemental lithium present, it will react with moisture in the air to produce lithium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. Hydrogen gas is flammable. Very flammable. Lithium-ion batteries contain little or no elemental lithium, but any that is present—it can form on the anode during the charging process—can present a very unwelcome surprise. The nature of the electrolyte used can also be a problem—some high-specific energy lithium-ion batteries use a flammable electrolyte that contains lithium hexafluorophosphate, which can decompose into the thoroughly unpleasant hydrofluoric acid during a fire. Lithium ion fires also produce a variety of other gases, including oxygen, which means that simply smothering the fire doesn’t work, because the fire essentially generates its own fuel. Several of these gases are flammable, and can ignite explosively, while oxygen, not flammable itself, causes other materials in the battery to burn much hotter and more rapidly. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are also produced, which can present breathing hazards to firefighters. Generally, the best thing to do with a lithium fire is to stay a long way away from it and let it burn itself out. Of course, if it happens to be, say, the car or e-bike in your garage that’s on fire, this approach may prove unsatisfactory.

Or, say you put a fucked up battery into your phone, then your phone into your pocket... Well, you might be golden if you also decided to start carrying lithium ion gel with you everywhere you go, but barring that, you'll make a pretty charred shish kabob in short order.

You're not even supposed to charge your phone near combustibles like sheets and clothings, ideally, or overcharge your batteries (to avoid overheating).

No it is not, get rid of it and don't attempt to charge it.

If you're not trolling OP, then you're probably about to earn what's about to happen to you.

How much are replacement batteries? Just swap it out for peace of mind 😵‍💫

No, unless you and everything around you is fireproof

When we had a laptop do this, I kept it outside until we could get rid of it

I read that as "Is it safe to swallow a swollen battery?"

No.

No

Unless you like chemically started fires, toxic fumes and burns

How did your ancestors survive all these years?