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Anyone want to bet that if he had told them to just leave it with him they would have come back with the line "We can't do that because of state laws on recycling and proper disposal"
Very extremely rarely would a battery "short out". If it did it might explode or melt or squirt all the battery acid out of it, so I think that whole biz is a line of croc. And we have a battery place around here that pays you about $7 for any battery you bring in, they recycle them.