Well the iPhone didn’t really win, it just sorta walked away with its life. Here’s a quick little “How (NOT) To” guide for taking care of your iPhone:
- Don’t place iPhone on trunk of car on cold, windy, day in Kansas
- Don’t drive off with iPhone still sitting on said trunk – especially onto a highway
- Don’t stand on side of highway, waiting to retrieve fallen iPhone, causing a big-rig truck to run over iPhone
But, should you forget the above helpful tips, you’ll be glad to know that your iPhone can survive a run-in with an 18-wheeler and still work perfectly – albeit a bit scuffed up.
Mike Beauchamp, Kansas resident, apparently found out the hard way (or, really, the only way) that an iPhone can be run over by a multi-ton truck and still work.
As I watched helplessly from the shoulder, the semi plowed my phone at full speed, throwing it to the ditch on the other side of the highway. At this point, I figured I’d retrieve it just for the purpose of seeing the crushed iPhone in disarray, mangled and crunched lifeless in the grass…Much to my surprise, as I approached, I heard the familiar sound of my ringtone — the iPhone was alive and ringing! As I picked it up and cradled it gently in my hands, I saw the screen displaying my caller ID — the screen still worked! I slid my finger gently over the answer slide and paused as I held the tattered and torn device to my ear — my heart must have skipped a beat when I heard my mom’s voice at the other end of the phone — the phone still worked! I ran back to my car and sat on the side of the road for about 15 minutes inspecting it, testing it, and looking it over — how in the hell had it survived being trounced by an 18-wheeler at 70mph?!?”
Who knew the iPhone was a ruggedized handset?