I was at work last night (covering a nursing shift at a nursing home) and the following crazy incident happened. I went into one resident's room to give her her pills, and she showed me her TV remote with only one of the batteries in it, and it was partway out, and it was HOT--so hot it was melting the plastic of the remote!! She said she had tried to get it out but it was too hot (fortunately she didn't appear to have burned her fingers), and handed it to me. I grabbed a big wad of TP from the bathroom and used that to pull out the battery without burning my fingers; the battery was making some weird fizzing sounds which made me drop it (well, sort of throw it) on the floor. Then I thought, this sounds like it's going to explode, so I threw a towel on top of it to contain it if that happened but then realized that was probably a fire hazard given how hot the battery was. Fortunately this building had windows that could be opened, so I opened the window and tossed out the battery into an area covered with gravel. Is that the weirdest thing, or what?