A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
What fire hazard? All bedding made in most parts of the world made in the last 50 years or so are made of very fire-retardant materials. It’s actually really hard to set a bed on fire these days.
With cigarettes, sure. With an overheated lithium-ion battery? Not really
Nah, you can take a blowtorch to a modern mattress and you’ll burn a hole through it, but it won’t catch fire and spread at all.
In fact, that’s literally how they test the flame retardant abilities of a mattress; it has to withstand at least 70 seconds of a blowtorch from a foot away. If the fire spreads, it’s a fail. That’s how most mattresses are tested under the 16 CFR 1640 standard.
I mean that’s great for the mattress, but before uour molten lava phone battery starts burning a hole in the mattress, the sheets and duvet and pillows and pajamas will already have gone up in a huge blaze so I don’t think it’s gonna help much.
Nope, all bedding materials have to undergo the same testing for flame resistance. This includes sheets, blankets, pillow cases, etc. Without the aid of any sort of accelerant, the most that’ll happen is you’ll get some smoke and charred bits.
Now granted, more people these days are buying bedding materials from Amazon sellers that may not be complying with US laws on these fire standards, so the risk is a bit higher if you’re buying online from sellers you don’t know. Which is why I always encourage people to NOT buy their bedding materials on Amazon, and instead but directly from a retailer in the US.
You can literally just Google “phone in bed fire” and find article after article after article about it.