That's not idiocy, just uninformed people doing something bad without realising it.

No. You're wrong about this. It is an ENORMOUS multi-industry and multi-billion dollar issue. It is the same reason the vast majority of Hoverboards were not only pulled off Amazon this holiday season, but they accepted returns for months and months beforehand on the off-chance even one battery was compromised. And this is fucking Amazon, the biggest supplier of said toys this Holiday season. They were just gouged MILLIONS over this very issue. Are you saying they were at fault too? I mean, maybe, but it's not "uninformed people doing something bad without realizing it", they don't make mass recalls for that.

Lithuim batteries are prone to being counterfeited at much lower quality and those batteries often not only make it to the market, but make it into our products overseas too. That's right, most of these shitty batteries comes from China, surprise surprise that the counterfeit/knockoff capitol of the world has moved to something as profitable as batteries.

This is assuming there was no fault on the part of this user. However, this IS NOT a fair assumption. Many of these situations occur without any fault on the part of the user. There may have been, but this definitely HAS been a huge issue, and it's now growing bigger as we start to use lithuim batteries in more and more modern gadgets. So it's entirely possible he just had a miniscule, unnoticeable batter defect and he really couldn't have done anything in particular to avoid or predict this. I'm not saying this IS what happened, I am saying it's a strong possibility though.

Combine all of this with the fact that Lithuim battery fires CANNOT be quelled with water, they are chemical fires and pouring water on them will contain them but not put them out, and also consider the fact that many of these situations occur seemingly randomly, or as the article describes, a "fluke incident that is comparable to being hit by a meteor."

I guess I'm saying all of this because you so easily found fault in this user without any evidence he actually did anything wrong. And his comments about vapes as a whole in the end aren't far off, it's just he should have referred to lithuim batteries as a whole not just a specific tool that uses them.