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March 16, 2009
Can You Hear Me Now? - 5
by J.R. Absher
British businessman Andrew Cheatle thought his cellphone was gone for good after he dropped it while walking his dog on the beach. “I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell,” he told The UK;s Sun newspaper. “I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days.” A week after the incident, when his girlfriend received a call originating from Cheatle’s lost phone, she wasn’t sure what to expect when she answered it. It was trawler fisherman Glen Kerley, who said he discovered the Nokia 1660 phone inside a 25-pound cod he’d netted. He and Cheatle made arrangements to meet. “I didn’t believe him but went to meet him and found it was my phone—a bit smelly and battered—but incredibly it still worked after I let it dry out,” said Cheatle. Trawlerman Kerley said it’s not unusual to find objects inside fish, especially with cod. “Cod are greedy fish—they’ll eat anything. I’ve found plastic cups, stones, teaspoons, batteries and I’ve also heard of someone finding false teeth in one.”
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Comments (5)
hmmmm smells a little fishy to me also,you can fool some people all the time, and all the people some of the time/ but i'm not taking the bite on this one.makes an interesting story though,
I agree 6phunter,dropped my phone in the water at the boat dock and it was submerged about 45 minutes before I found it in about 1 foot of water,needless to say it was toast,no matter how much I dried it out.
My Nokia would not have survived a dunking like that. Maybe I need to get one of those models, NOT!
I washed a cell phone once. I let it dry out for about a week and the phone still didn't work. I threw it in a drawer for some reason instead of throwing it away. When my replacement phone got chewed up by my dog almost two years later, I pulled it out of the drawer and it worked just fine. I had tried that phone numerous times of those two years and it did nothing. I guess it had to dry for a really long time. I am still using that phone now. It is amazing what can happen.
Funny story but I'd say it's a April Fools Day thing.
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hmmmm smells a little fishy to me also,you can fool some people all the time, and all the people some of the time/ but i'm not taking the bite on this one.makes an interesting story though,
I agree 6phunter,dropped my phone in the water at the boat dock and it was submerged about 45 minutes before I found it in about 1 foot of water,needless to say it was toast,no matter how much I dried it out.
My Nokia would not have survived a dunking like that. Maybe I need to get one of those models, NOT!
I washed a cell phone once. I let it dry out for about a week and the phone still didn't work. I threw it in a drawer for some reason instead of throwing it away. When my replacement phone got chewed up by my dog almost two years later, I pulled it out of the drawer and it worked just fine. I had tried that phone numerous times of those two years and it did nothing. I guess it had to dry for a really long time. I am still using that phone now. It is amazing what can happen.
Funny story but I'd say it's a April Fools Day thing.
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