Over at the Toms Hardware Forum a member is claiming that someones Dell laptop in his office burst into flames and had to be put out with a Fire Extinguisher. The pictures that accompany the post are pretty convincing. The user writes..

"As I sit here typing I’m reminded of what happened at roughly 4 p.m. Central Standard time at my office (about an hour ago); especially since my hands still smell like ‘fire extinguisher’. While specifying instrumentation tag names on a flow drawing my attention is turned towards the haze building up on the other side of the engineering area. I started hearing some distant prattle about “fire”, “hmmm… what could this possibly be?” I think to myself. Upon further investigation I’ve come to the conclusion that someone’s Dell laptop just freakin blew up and started a cozy little desktop fire!!!

Since I’m not in the mood for S’mores… "Oh, this is priceless" I think to myself; as I turn straight back to my desk where, from within my back-pack, I whip out my 7.2MP digital camera.

One of our IT guys put out the flames (yes, I said flames) and thusly covered the entire area with fire extinguisher ‘material’. The battery burned its way straight through the laptop creating the beautiful hole with which is so beautifully depicted in the picture. The fire department showed up. The police department showed up. The entire lower floor was allowed to leave early and as we stood there in front of the building we simply couldn’t resist… we jokingly called the engineer a terrorist as he was being asked a few questions by the friendly officer."

It looks like we might witness the first ever mass Laptop recall in the upcoming weeks.