Comedy break: Top 10 places to lose your cellphone…
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 5:14 AM PST In Random, Security, The Digital Life
Actually this story isn’t very new at all, but I stumbled across it whilst looking at other info on the ever-wonderful Interweb. Cell phones etc wrote up a list of the top 10 places to lose your cellphone – rather than replicate the entire list here (you can read that by clicking the link at the end), I thought I’d pull out a couple of old favourites, along with their respective positions:
8. Roof Of Your Car
We’ve all done it. Especially you wack-o’s who use those gigantic Bluetooth headsets. (Aren’t you worried about growing golf ball sized tumors?)
You’re on the phone, which you’ve left on the roof of your car, and you don’t realize it until the call disconnects when your Treo explodes on the ground after breaking quickly to avoid murdering a squirrel. At least you know for sure you have to buy a new one. Hopefully you had insurance.
Chance of recovery: 0-100% (Depending on where it lands, and if you remember before it falls… and if you have insurance)
6. Airport Security
You’ve stood in line for 30 minutes to check in. You’ve stood in line for 45 minutes to go through security. Then you get the dreaded tap: “Sir, you’ve been randomly selected for a thourough search of your belongings.”
In the process of removing your coat, shoes, belt and explaining why your nipples beap every time the metal detector passes over them, your brand new Amp’d Jet phone disappears. You don’t realize it until you hear your name over the airport loud speaker.
Chance of recovery: 50-100% (Depending on how much time you have before your flight leaves. If you don’t immediately retrieve it from security, it is destroyed)
1. The toilet at a bus station (Or any public place for that matter)
If you go in after it, you will probably catch some horrible disease, turn green and die.
Besides, you can flush a small child down most of those public toilets. Once you flush, it’s gone.
Chance of recovery: 0% (Don’t even think about sticking your hand in there!)
So, IntoMobile readers, do we have any new entries to add to the original list (which you can find here)? If so, I might even go to the trouble of generating a new “IntoMobile Top 10″ – come on, I bet all you guys have lost/smashed/misplaced your Moble somewhere amusing at least once….
[Story via: cell phones etc / Image via: CNET au]
Lol. ok, lets see. I’ve done 3 of those things. I’ve left it on the roof on my car but was fortunate enought to remember for leaving. I’ve left it at the girlfriends parents house (no ex but it kinda falls under the mother-in-law one) and I’ve left it (including my wallet and Jacket!!) in a restraunt. Luckly it was one I went to alot and they knew it was mine so when I went back to get it 4 hours later, everything was present and accounted for. Another place I lost it was on the lawn when I was mowing!! Good thing I saw it shine before I killed it. Another bad place was my good friends grandparents house. It was bad becasue they had no knowledge of it (because their old and don’t pay attention) and they have hundreds of little knickknacks I had to look past. Took me an hour to find it sitting on the glass shelf surrounded by a candle, a dragon, a crying baby angel, and a sad clown holding balloons.
Raidium, that is a quality story! I particularly liked the detail at the end – “crying baby angel” was my fave there!!!
lol, glad you liked that. I am very accident prown when it comes to technology so I guess it’s a good thing that I have TEP insurance on my phone.
haha Big Ben – I have your autograph u know
I love that shark in the toilet picture; really funny/creepy